tap是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 龙头; 轻拍, 轻敲; v. 轻拍, 轻敲，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Henfrey stopped to discover this, but Hall and the two labourers from the Tap rushed at once to the corner, shouting incoherent things, and saw Mr. Marvel vanishing by the corner of the church wall.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stood in my way, so that I had perforce to tap his shoulder to come on deck.
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：
-- Still that breathing silence, which marks the drowsy sultriness of an American landscape in July, pervaded the secluded spot, interrupted only by the low voices of the men, the oc-casional and lazy tap of a woodpecker, the discordant cry of some gaudy jay, or a swelling on the ear, from the dull roar of a distant waterfall.
-- How long the tired Duncan lay in this insensible state he never knew himself, but his slumbering visions had been long lost in total forgetfulness, when he was awakened by a light tap on the shoulder.
-- The first tap of the French drums was echoed from the bosom of the fort, and presently the valley was filled with the strains of martial music, rising long, thrilling and lively above the rattling accompaniment.
-- exclaimed Uncas, nearly at the moment that the light tap his father had made on the side of the canoe noti-fied them of the vicinity of danger.
-- 'Though more I should not, less I could not say,' the youth was about to answer, when he was interrupted by a light tap on his shoulder.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Take the key, or I'll brain you with it' indeed he gave him a smart tap with the handle as he spoke.
-- She had been remarkable, when a tender prattler for an uncommon talent in counterfeiting the walk and manner of a bailiff: in which character she had learned to tap her little playfellows on the shoulder, and to carry them off to imaginary sponging-houses, with a correctness of imitation which was the surprise and delight of all who witnessed her performances, and which was only to be exceeded by her exquisite manner of putting an execution into her doll's house, and taking an exact inventory of the chairs and tables.
-- Mr Chuckster being roused, would probably have pursued this subject further, and in more emphatic language, but for a tap at the door, which seeming to announce the arrival of somebody on business, caused him to assume a greater appearance of meekness than was perhaps quite consistent with his late declaration.
-- Mr Chuckster, sir, will you have the goodness to tap at the window for the constable that's waiting in the coach?'
-- And the gentleman does tap him presently, and with great discretion too; drawing off the evidence by little and little, and making it run quite clear and bright in the eyes of all present.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took up his pipe, and began, in his old accustomed manner, to tap with it nervously upon the bars of the grate.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A tap is all that is required.
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：
-- There came a tap at her door.
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