horn是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (牛羊等的) 角； 号， 喇叭； 角状物； 角制品，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：
-- It is at Cape Froward that the American continent actually terminates, for Cape Horn is nothing but a rock sunk in the sea in latitude 52 degrees.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its horns were sixteen palms long, and a worker in horn had made them into a bow, smoothing them well down, and giving them tips of gold.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreau had a huge cowherd's horn slung over his shoulder.
-- Presently Moreau sounded the great horn again, and at the sound of it all the Beast People writhed and grovelled in the dust.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That nearly broke his heart, and he headed round the Horn back to his own beaches; and on his way north he hauled out on an island full of green trees, where he found an old, old seal who was dying, and Kotick caught fish for him and told him all his sorrows.
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：
-- A pouch and horn com-pleted his personal accouterments, though a rifle of great length**, which the theory of the more ingenious whites had taught them was the most dangerous of all firearms, leaned against a neighboring sapling.
-- 'Twas the last charge in my horn and the last bullet in my pouch, and 'twas the act of a boy!'
-- The young Mohican complied, leaving the scout turn-ing over the useless contents of his pouch, and shaking the empty horn with renewed discontent.
-- The medal* of Magua will no longer be of tin, but of beaten gold; his horn will run over with powder; dollars will be as plenty in his pouch as pebbles on the shore of Horican; and the deer will lick his hand, for they will know it to be vain to fly from the rifle he will carry!As for myself, I know not how to exceed the gratitude of the Scotchman, but I yes, I will ' * It has long been a practice with the whites to concili-ate the important men of the Indians by presenting medals, which are worn in the place of their own rude ornaments.
-- repeated Hawkeye, with singular and ill-con-cealed disdain; 'do you take me for a whimpering boy at the apronstring of one of your old gals; and this good rifle on my knee for the feather of a goose's wing, my ox's horn for a bottle of ink, and my leathern pouch for a cross-barred handkercher to carry my dinner?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I believe in the existence of a mammal power fully organised, belonging to the branch of vertebrata, like the whales, the cachalots, or the dolphins, and furnished with a horn of defence of great penetrating power."
-- VIGO BAYThe Atlantic!a vast sheet of water whose superficial area covers twenty-five millions of square miles, the length of which is nine thousand miles, with a mean breadth of two thousand seven hundred an ocean whose parallel winding shores embrace an immense circumference, watered by the largest rivers of the world, the St. Lawrence, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Plata, the Orinoco, the Niger, the Senegal, the Elbe, the Loire, and the Rhine, which carry water from the most civilised, as well as from the most savage, countries!Magnificent field of water, incessantly ploughed by vessels of every nation, sheltered by the flags of every nation, and which terminates in those two terrible points so dreaded by mariners, Cape Horn and the Cape of Tempests.
-- FROM CAPE HORN TO THE AMAZONHow I got on to the platform, I have no idea; perhaps the Canadian had carried me there.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am to be off a piece and blow a tin horn if I see any danger; but stead of that I will BA like a sheep soon as they get in and not blow at all; then whilst they are getting his chains loose, you slip there and lock them in, and can kill them at your leasure.
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