knife是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 刀， 餐刀v. 用刀切， 用匕首刺，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of France and Norway, there were growing trees, when that sufferer was put to death, already marked by the Woodman, Fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history.
-- A strange thrill struck him when she did so, and visibly passed over his frame; he laid the knife down' softly, as he sat staring at her.
-- A rumour just lived in the village had a faint and bare existence there, as its people had that when the knife struck home, the faces changed, from fac-es of pride to faces of anger and pain; also, that when that dangling figure was hauled up forty feet above the fountain, they changed again, and bore a cruel look of being avenged, which they would henceforth bear for ever.
-- Jacques Three was nearly at his side; Ma-dame Defarge, still heading some of her women, was visible in the inner distance, and her knife was in her hand.
-- Instantly Madame Defarge's knife was in her girdle; the drum was beating in the streets, as if it and a drummer had flown together by magic; and The Vengeance, uttering ter-rific shrieks, and flinging her arms about her head like all the forty Furies at once, was tearing from house to house, rousing the women.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do you intend to keep your knife while you sleep?'
-- The little robber maiden wound her arm round Gerda's neck, held the knife in the other hand, and snored so loud that everybody could hear her; but Gerda could not close her eyes, for she did not know whether she was to live or die.
-- The bread and the meat were fastened to the Reindeer's back; the little maiden opened the door, called in all the dogs, and then with her knife cut the rope that fas-tened the animal, and said to him, 'Now, off with you; but take good care of the little girl!'
-- And what was still more capital to behold was, the goose hopped down from the dish, reeled about on the floor with knife and fork in its breast, till it came up to the poor little girl; when the match went out and nothing but the thick, cold, damp wall was left behind.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Anna answered a few words, but not foreseeing any entertainment from the conversation, she asked Annushka to get a lamp, hooked it onto the arm of her seat, and took from her bag a paper knife and an English novel.
-- But there was no chance of doing anything; and twisting the smooth paper knife in her little hands, she forced herself to read.
-- She passed the paper knife over the window pane, then laid its smooth, cool surface to her cheek, and almost laughed aloud at the feeling of delight that all at once without cause came over her.
-- So you would advise a knife to his throat?"
-- There was no paper knife on the table, and so, pulling out the photograph that was next to her son's (it was a photograph of Vronsky taken at Rome in a round hat and with long hair), she used it to push out her son's photograph.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had also a pocket pruning-knife, but he could not rely on the knife and still less on his own strength, and so resolved finally on the axe.
-- The last moment had come, the last drops had to be drained!So a man will sometimes go through half an hour of mortal terror with a brigand, yet when the knife is at his throat at last, he feels no fear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I tookthe opportunity of asking if she was at all acquainted with Mr.Brooks of Sheffield, but she answered No, only she supposed hemust be a manufacturer in the knife and fork way.
-- I thanked him, and took my seat at the board; but found itextremely difficult to handle my knife and fork with anything likedexterity, or to avoid splashing myself with the gravy, while hewas standing opposite, staring so hard, and making me blush inthe most dreadful manner every time I caught his eye.
-- I had my own old mug with David onit, and my own old little knife and fork that wouldn't cut.
-- What meals I had in silence and embarrassment, always feelingthat there were a knife and fork too many, and those mine; anappetite too many, and that mine; a plate and chair too many, andthose mine; a somebody too many, and that I!
-- Then I was sent up to 'Captain Hopkins' in the roomoverhead, with Mr. Micawber's compliments, and I was his youngfriend, and would Captain Hopkins lend me a knife and fork.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, the nausea of standing by the doctor, trying not to vomit when his bright knife cut into mortifying flesh!Andoh, the horror of hearing the screams from the operating ward where amputations were going on!And the sick, helplesssense of pity at the sight of tense, white faces of mangled men waiting for the doctor to get to them, men whose earswere filled with screams, men waiting for the dreadful words: "I'm sorry, my boy, but that hand will have to come off.
-- Cookie say effen de pain get too bad, jes' you put a knife unner Miss Melly's bed an' it cut de pain in two."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then she took some butter (not too much) on a knife and spread it on the loaf, in an apothecary kind of way, as if she were making a plaster,--using both sides of the knife with a slapping dexterity, and trimming and moulding the butter off round the crust.
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