fort是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 堡垒, 要塞，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：
-- The DUNCAN was passing Fort Famine.
-- He says we had better continue our route to the east as far as Fort Independence, and if we don't get news of Captain Grant there we shall hear, at any rate, what has become of the Indians of the Argentine plains."
-- "Is Fort Independence far away?"
-- At noon they passed the deserted fort of Tapalquem, the first of the chain of forts which defend the southern frontiers from Indian marauders.
-- The ESTANCIAS are large cattle stations for breeding cattle; but Thalcave resolved not to stop at any of them, but to go straight on to Fort Independence.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The panorama passed before their eyes like a flash, save when the steam concealed it fitfully from the view; the travellers could scarcely discern the fort of Chupenie, twenty miles south-westward from Benares, the ancient stronghold of the rajahs of Behar; or Ghazipur and its famous rose-water factories; or the tomb of Lord Cornwallis, rising on the left bank of the Ganges; the fortified town of Buxar, or Patna, a large manufacturing and trading-place, where is held the principal opium market of India; or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as English as Manchester or Birmingham, with its iron foundries, edgetool factories, and high chimneys puffing clouds of black smoke heavenward.
-- At ten o'clock at night the train stopped at Fort Bridger station, and twenty minutes later entered Wyoming Territory, following the valley of Bitter Creek throughout.
-- At half-past twelve the travellers caught sight for an instant of Fort Halleck, which commands that section; and in a few more hours the Rocky Mountains were crossed.
-- IN WHICH CERTAIN INCIDENTS ARE NARRATED WHICHARE ONLY TO BE MET WITH ON AMERICAN RAILROADSThe train pursued its course, that evening, without interruption, passing Fort Saunders, crossing Cheyne Pass, and reaching Evans Pass.
-- Fort McPherson was left behind at eight in the morning, and three hundred and fifty-seven miles had yet to be traversed before reaching Omaha.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So hot tonight, and I been lecturing nine time a week--Des Moines, Fort Dodge, LaCrosse, Elgin, Joliet [but he pronounced it Zho-lee-ay] and--I forget.
-- Among the Men of Measured Merriment on the platform were Dr. Aaron Sholtheis, the new Director of McGurk Institute, and Dr. Angus Duer, head of the Duer Clinic and professor of surgery in Fort Dearborn Medical College.
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, therefore, intelligence was received at the fort which covered the southern termination of the portage be-tween the Hudson and the lakes, that Montcalm had been seen moving up the Champlain, with an army 'numerous as the leaves on the trees,' its truth was admitted with more of the craven reluctance of fear than with the stern joy that a warrior should feel, in finding an enemy within reach of his blow.
-- The loyal servants of the British crown had given to one of these forest-fast-nesses the name of William Henry, and to the other that of Fort Edward, calling each after a favorite prince of the reigning family.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "This may be called Fort meeting Feeble, hey, Boldwood?"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We saw Tilbury Fort and remembered the Spanish Armada, Gravesend, Woolwich, and Greenwich places which I had heard of even in my country.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Yankees may be scared of us, but after theway General Beauregard shelled them out of Fort Sumter day before yesterday, they'll have to fight or stand brandedas cowards before the whole world.
-- Pa talks war morning, noon and night, and all the gentlemen who come tosee him shout about Fort Sumter and States' Rights and Abe Lincoln till I get so bored I could scream!And that's allthe boys talk about, too, that and their old Troop.
-- Maybeshe'll have some news about Fort Sumter that we haven't heard."
-- I'll lay you two to one she didn't even know the fort was out there in the harbor, much less that itwas full of Yankees until we shelled them out.
-- Now come, daughter, cheer up, and I'lltake you to Charleston next week to visit your Aunt Eulalie and, what with all the hullabaloo they are having over thereabout Fort Sumter, you'll be forgetting about Ashley in a week."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We set out the 5th day of August, 1706, and arrived at Fort St. George the 11th of April, 1707.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An hour after leaving the wood of olives, we reached the fort of San Vicenza, where Hans demanded the price of his thirteenth week of service.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He's no more afraid than the isle fort at Cattegat, put there to fight the Baltic with storm-lashed guns, on which the sea-salt cakes!
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