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：
-- Any other than a monster would have relented at such an act of generous devotion to the best and purest affection; but the breast of the Huron was a stranger to sympathy.
-- Duncan's eyes followed the movement, and he perceived that the animal just mentioned was beautifully, though faintly, worked in blue tint, on the swarthy breast of the chief.
-- In short, he so managed his allusions, that in a nation which was composed of so few families, he contrived to strike every chord that might find, in its turn, some breast in which to vibrate.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Anger struggled in her breast with misery.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- exclaimed the sailor, seizing the reporter, and clasping him to his breast with such a squeeze that he had never felt anything like it before.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The breast of his coat was ornamented with an outside pocket from which there peeped forth the cleanest end of a very large and very ill-favoured handkerchief; his dirty wristbands were pulled on as far as possible and ostentatiously folded back over his cuffs; he displayed no gloves, and carried a yellow cane having at the top a bone hand with the semblance of a ring on its little finger and a black ball in its grasp.
-- 'Here,' he said, putting his hand into his breast and sidling up to the old man as he spoke; 'I brought it myself for fear of accidents, as, being in gold, it was something large and heavy for Nell to carry in her bag.
-- To see the old man struck down beneath the pressure of some hidden grief, to mark his wavering and unsettled state, to be agitated at times with a dreadful fear that his mind was wandering, and to trace in his words and looks the dawning of despondent madness; to watch and wait and listen for confirmation of these things day after day, and to feel and know that, come what might, they were alone in the world with no one to help or advise or care about them these were causes of depression and anxiety that might have sat heavily on an older breast with many influences at work to cheer and gladden it, but how heavily on the mind of a young child to whom they were ever present, and who was constantly surrounded by all that could keep such thoughts in restless action!
-- Here he remained, with his head bowed upon his breast for some time, and then suddenly raising it, said,'Once, and once for all, have you brought me any money?'
-- This, perhaps, as he had not shown any previous anxiety about them, was enough to awaken suspicion in the breast of a creature so jealous and distrustful by nature, setting aside any additional impulse to curiosity that he might have derived from Dick's incautious manner.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An old little priest with a swollen, pale yellow face, in a brown cassock and gold cross on his breast and some small badges pinned to the cassock, slowly moving his swollen feet under the cassock, approached the reading desk under the image.
-- "No, we will stay here, Dmitri Ivanovich," answered Katiousha, laboriously, as though after hard, pleasant exertion, breathing with her full breast and looking straight in his eyes, with her submissive, chaste, loving and slightly squinting eyes.
-- Such mingled feelings filled Nekhludoff's breast as he sat listening to the examination of the witnesses.
-- The artist had evidently drawn with particular care the breast and the beautiful shoulders and neck.
-- At that moment Wolf in his uniform and stars hung on his breast entered the waiting-room and approached Nekhludoff.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "In fact, sir, I believe I have the thing in my breast pocket; and to tell you the truth, I should like to get it put in safety."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cabins poured forth a torrent of sailors and officers, each with heaving breast and troubled eye watching the course of the cetacean.
-- But the shades of colour were beautiful, having a yellow beak, brown feet and claws, nut-coloured wings with purple tips, pale yellow at the back of the neck and head, and emerald colour at the throat, chestnut on the breast and belly.
-- I must make a clean breast of it.
-- His breast was swelling with sobs; and I heard him murmur these words (the last which ever struck my ear):"Almighty God!enough!enough!"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gudrun looked in dismay on Sir Joshua, who stood up to the breast in the water, his long, greyish hair washed down into his eyes, his neck set into thick, crude shoulders.
-- And her breast was keen with passion for him, he was so beautiful in his male stillness and mystery.
-- At length Gerald lay back inert on the carpet, his breast rising in great slow panting, whilst Birkin kneeled over him, almost unconscious.
-- His arms and his breast and his head were rounded and living like those of the Greek, he had not the unawakened straight arms of the Egyptian, nor the sealed, slumbering head.
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