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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when Samson seized her head, and pushed her under the knife with his foot, she cried out: 'Wait a moment!
-- 'Ha, ha that's exactly why she is going to marry me, because she knows for certain that the knife awaits her.
-- said Parfen, seizing from the prince's hand a knife which the latter had at that moment taken up from the table, where it lay beside the history.
-- He had absently taken up the knife a second time, and again Rogojin snatched it from his hand, and threw it down on the table.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he spoke he drew his knife across the throats of the victims, and laid them down gasping and dying upon the ground, for the knife had reft them of their strength.
-- Antilochus bent over him the while, weeping and holding both his hands as he lay groaning for he feared that he might plunge a knife into his own throat.
-- The son of Atreus drew the knife which he wore by the scabbard of his mighty sword, and began by cutting off some bristles from the boar, lifting up his hands in prayer as he did so.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Back he comes with a knife in uz hand and a loaf; stood just as if he was staring.
-- Abruptly he whipped down the bread and cheese, and Mr. Hall just grasped the knife on the table in time to save it.
-- Hall sent the knife sliding along the table to Wadgers, who acted as goal-keeper for the offensive, so to speak, and then stepped forward as Jaffers and the stranger swayed and staggered towards him, clutching and hitting in.
-- Mr. Hall, endeavouring to act on instructions, received a sounding kick in the ribs that disposed of him for a moment, and Mr. Wadgers, seeing the decapitated stranger had rolled over and got the upper side of Jaffers, retreated towards the door, knife in hand, and so collided with Mr. Huxter and the Sidderbridge carter coming to the rescue of law and order.
-- "He'll kill me he's got a knife or something.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt my breath going, for I was quite out of training; it whooped as I drew it, and I felt a pain like a knife at my side.
-- Then cutting like a knife across the confusion came the crack of a revolver.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Brothers, that was a dog's death,' said Mowgli, feeling for the knife he always carried in a sheath round his neck now that he lived with men.
-- With the knife, with the knife that men use, with the knife of the hunter, I will stoop down for my gift.
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：
-- The native bore both the tomahawk and knife of his tribe; and yet his appearance was not altogether that of a warrior.
-- He also bore a knife in a girdle of wampum, like that which confined the scanty garments of the Indian, but no tomahawk.
-- The white man loosened his knife in his leathern sheath, and made an involuntary movement of the hand toward his rifle, at this sudden interruption; but the Indian sat com-posed, and without turning his head at the unexpected sounds.
-- Avoiding the horns of the infuriated animal, Uncas darted to his side, and passed his knife across the throat, when bounding to the edge of the river it fell, dyeing the waters with its blood.
-- 'Twas done with Indian skill,' said the scout laughing in-wardly, but with vast satisfaction; 'and 'twas a pretty sight to behold!Though an arrow is a near shot, and needs a knife to finish the work.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was evident that the woodman's axe had never touched these trees, that the pioneer's knife had never severed the creepers hanging from one trunk to another in the midst of tangled brushwood and long grass.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kit, who in despatching his bread and meat had been swallowing two-thirds of his knife at every mouthful with the coolness of a juggler, stopped short in his operations on being thus appealed to, and bawled 'Nobody isn't such a fool as to say he doosn't,' after which he incapacitated himself for further conversation by taking a most prodigious sandwich at one bite.
-- Without further persuasion, the two boys fell upon each other, tooth and nail, while Quilp, holding up the cage in one hand, and chopping the ground with his knife in an ecstasy, urged them on by his taunts and cries to fight more fiercely.
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