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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Paganel was too busily engaged with his knife and fork to lose a single mouthful, though he did his best to eat and talk at the same time.
-- John Mangles, inserting the blade of his poniard, avoided the knife which now protruded above the soil, but seized the hand that wielded it.
-- I stole this knife and rope out of the desert hut.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They put a man in-side a frame and a sort of broad knife falls by machinery -they call the thing a guillotine-it falls with fearful force and weight-the head springs off so quickly that you can't wink your eye in between.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No!And when reaching out his knife and fork, between which the slice of beef was locked, Ahab thereby motioned Starbuck's plate towards him, the mate received his meat as though receiving alms; and cut it tenderly; and a little started if, perchance, the knife grazed against the plate; and chewed it noiselessly; and swallowed it, not without circumspection.
-- And once Daggoo, seized with a sudden humor, assisted Dough-Boy's memory by snatching him up bodily, and thrusting his head into a great empty wooden trencher, while Tashtego, knife in hand, began laying out the circle preliminary to scalping him.
-- Will I, nill I, the ineffable thing has tied me to him; tows me with a cable I have no knife to cut.
-- Knife thee heartily!big frame, small spirit!
-- Then, in darting at the monster, knife in hand, he had but given loose to a sudden, passionate, corporal animosity; and when he received the stroke that tore him, he probably but felt the agonizing bodily laceration, but nothing more.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Run to Mr. Bumble, Noah, and tell him to come here directly, and not to lose a minute; never mind your cap!Make haste!You can hold a knife to that black eye, as you run along.
-- He closed the lid of the box with a loud crash; and, laying his hand on a bread knife which was on the table, started furiously up.
-- He trembled very much though; for, even in his terror, Oliver could see that the knife quivered in the air.
-- said the Jew, abruptly resuming his old manner, and playing with the knife a little, before he laid it down; as if to induce the belief that he had caught it up, in mere sport.
-- 'Cause the government, as cares for the lives of such men as you, as haven't half the pluck of curs, lets a man kill a dog how he likes,' replied Sikes, shutting up the knife with a very expressive look; 'that's why.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After I had been there about ten or twelve days, it came into my thoughts that I should lose my reckoning of time for want of books, and pen and ink, and should even forget the Sabbath days; but to prevent this, I cut with my knife upon a large post, in capital letters - and making it into a great cross, I set it up on the shore where I first landed - 'I came on shore here on the 30th September 1659.'
-- While my man Friday fired at them, I pulled out my knife and cut the flags that bound the poor victim; and loosing his hands and feet, I lifted him up, and asked him in the Portuguese tongue what he was.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He appeared to great advantage behind the white napery and silver platters of the table and displaying his arms with a knife and fork.
-- Once the "World" came out with a flaring announcement about "80,000 people out of employment in New York this winter," which struck as a knife at his heart.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pap was pretty careful not to leave a knife or anything in the cabin when he was away; I reckon I had hunted the place over as much as a hundred times; well, I was most all the time at it, because it was about the only way to put in the time.
-- He put his knife under him, and said he would sleep and get strong, and then he would see who was who.
-- We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher-knife with- out any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old bedquilt off the bed, and a reticule with needles and pins and beeswax and buttons and thread and all such truck in it, and a hatchet and some nails, and a fishline as thick as my little finger with some mon- strous hooks on it, and a roll of buckskin, and a leather dog-collar, and a horseshoe, and some vials of medicine that didn't have no label on them; and just as we was leaving I found a tolerable good curry-comb, and Jim he found a ratty old fiddle-bow, and a wooden leg.
-- I out with my knife and cut the rope, and away we went!
-- He said if I'd a wanted it to hide a knife in, and smuggle it to Jim to kill the seneskal with, it would a been all right.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In desperation the smaller of the two Assassins pulled out a long knife from his pocket, and tried to pry Pinocchio's mouth open with it.
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