breast是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 胸膛， 乳房，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lord Glenarvan clasped her closely to his breast for an instant, and then turned away, while Robert flung his arms round Mary's neck.
-- John Mangles felt in his own breast all that Glenarvan was suffering.
-- Then he tears his breast with his beak, to relieve himself of his fat, and so becomes lighter.
-- A thousand feelings struggled in her breast at the news that fresh attempts were about to be made to recover Harry Grant, and that the devotion of the captain was so unbounded.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lyons,' said I, as I rose from this long and incon-clusive interview, 'you are taking a very great responsibility and putting yourself in a very false position by not making an absolutely clean breast of all that you know.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prince tried to speak, but could not form his words; a great weight seemed to lie upon his breast and suffocate him.
-- cried Lebedeff, beating his breast with a contrite air.
-- Believe me, he would betray himself before five days were out; he would burst into tears, and make a clean breast of the matter; especially if managed with tact, and if you and his family watched his every step, so to speak.
-- Sometimes at night I would throw myself upon his breast with tears (Oh, how I loved that man!).
-- The bullet struck the cross on my breast and glanced off straight into his temple.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The son of Peleus was furious, and his heart within his shaggy breast was divided whether to draw his sword, push the others aside, and kill the son of Atreus, or to restrain himself and check his anger.
-- He laid the notch of the arrow on the oxhide bowstring, and drew both notch and string to his breast till the arrow-head was near the bow; then when the bow was arched into a half-circle he let fly, and the bow twanged, and the string sang as the arrow flew gladly on over the heads of the throng.
-- Therefore he was named Simoeisius, but he did not live to pay his parents for his rearing, for he was cut off untimely by the spear of mighty Ajax, who struck him in the breast by the right nipple as he was coming on among the fore-most fighters; the spear went right through his shoulder, and he fell as a poplar that has grown straight and tall in a meadow by some mere, and its top is thick with branches.
-- Diomed then threw, and his spear sped not in vain, for it hit Phegeus on the breast near the nipple, and he fell from his chariot.
-- She protected him by cov-ering him with a fold of her own fair garment, lest some Danaan should drive a spear into his breast and kill him.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the big brown ele-phant catchers, the trackers and drivers and ropers, and the men who know all the secrets of breaking the wildest ele-phants, passed him from one to the other, and they marked his forehead with blood from the breast of a newly killed jungle-cock, to show that he was a forester, initiated and free of all the jungles.
-- From her breast she plucked it, Parbati the thief, Saw the Least of Little Things gnawed a new-grown leaf!
-- So I buttoned her into the breast of my overcoat, and Two Tails shuffled and stamped and growled to himself.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he spoke of courage, their looks were firm and responsive; when he alluded to their injuries, their eyes kindled with fury; when he mentioned the taunts of the women, they dropped their heads in shame; but when he pointed out their means of vengeance, he struck a chord which never failed to thrill in the breast of an Indian.
-- He felt his breast relieved from the load it had endured; he saw the savage expression of his adversary's countenance change to a look of vacant wildness, when the Indian fell dead on the faded leaves by his side.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I took up the pig and held him to my breast with my jacket (so he couldn't drip) till I got a good piece below the house and then dumped him into the river.
-- So I said it wouldn't be no use to try to play it any longer, and I would just make a clean breast and tell her everything, but she musn't go back on her promise.
-- He made about a dozen long gasps, his breast lifting the Bible up when he drawed in his breath, and letting it down again when he breathed it out and after that he laid still; he was dead.
-- It jolted her up like everything, of course; but I was over the shoal water now, so I went right along, her eyes a-blaz-ing higher and higher all the time, and told her every blame thing, from where we first struck that young fool going up to the steamboat, clear through to where she flung herself on to the king's breast at the front door and he kissed her sixteen or seventeen times and then up she jumps, with her face afire like sunset, and says: 'The brute!Come, don't waste a minute not a SEC-OND we'll have them tarred and feathered, and flung in the river!'
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