band是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 条， 带； 乐队； 波段； 一群， 一伙v. 缚， 绑扎，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：
-- Lord Glenarvan had in them a band of trusty fellows, skilled in their calling, devoted to himself, full of courage, and as practiced in handling fire-arms as in the maneuvering of a ship; a valiant little troop, ready to follow him any where, even in the most dangerous expeditions.
-- Many a time, but for their devotion and courage the small band could not have gone on.
-- However, in spite of their courage, the strength of the little band was giving way.
-- On issuing from the gorges of the Cordilleras, Glenarvan and his band came first to plains of sand, called MEDANOS, lying in ridges like waves of the sea, and so extremely fine that the least breath of wind agitated the light particles, and sent them flying in clouds, which rose and fell like water-spouts.
-- Glenarvan determined to go up to them; but he had no sooner moved forward than the whole band wheeled round, and disappeared with incredible speed.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across.
-- It is a long, dismal walk, the Yew Alley, between two high walls of clipped hedge, with a narrow band of grass upon either side.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With that Jo marched straight away and the rest followed, a bright little band of sisters, all looking their best in summer suits, with happy faces under the jaunty hatbrims.
-- 'They are very pretty, but I think you're rather too young for such ornaments, Amy,' said Mrs. March, looking at the plump little hand, with the band of sky-blue stones on the forefinger, and the quaint guard formed of two tiny golden hands clasped together.
-- I felt as if I'd got into a romance, sitting there, watching the Meck-ar rolling through the valley, listening to the music of the Austrian band below, and waiting for my lover, like a real storybook girl.
-- Presently he strolled out of the promenade and stood a moment at the crossing, as if un-decided whether to go and listen to the band in the Jardin Publique, or to wander along the beach toward Castle Hill.
-- Four little names, one on each lid, Carved out by a boyish hand, And underneath there lieth hid Histories of the happpy band Once playing here, and pausing oft To hear the sweet refrain, That came and went on the roof aloft, In the falling summer rain.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, almost every twenty-four hours, when the watches of the night were set, and the band on deck sentinelled the slumbers of the band below; and when if a rope was to be hauled upon the forecastle, the sailors flung it not rudely down, as by day, but with some cautiousness dropt it to its place for fear of disturbing their slumbering shipmates; when this sort of steady quietude would begin to prevail, habitually, the silent steersman would watch the cabin-scuttle; and ere long the old man would emerge, gripping at the iron banister, to help his crippled way.
-- But to such unresting vigilance over their dangerous allies was this small band of whites necessitated, both by night and by day, and so extreme was the hard work they underwent, that upon the vessel being ready again for sea, they were in such a weakened condition that the captain durst not put off with them in so heavy a vessel.
-- The band is working loose and the lee lift is half-stranded.
-- From the ship's bows, nearly all the seamen now hung inactive; hammers, bits of plank, lances, and harpoons, mechanically retained in their hands, just as they had darted from their various employments; all their enchanted eyes intent upon the whale, which from side to side strangely vibrating his predestinating head, sent a broad band of overspreading semicircular foam before him as he rushed.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had just recently donned a sailor hat for the season with a band of pretty white-dotted blue silk.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respect-able.
-- Tom says: 'Now, we'll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer's Gang.
-- And nobody that didn't belong to the band could use that mark, and if he did he must be sued; and if he done it again he must be killed.
-- And if anybody that belonged to the band told the secrets, he must have his throat cut, and then have his carcass burnt up and the ash-es scattered all around, and his name blotted off of the list with blood and never men- tioned again by the gang, but have a curse put on it and be forgot forever.
-- So then we went away and went to Tthe rubbage-pile in the back yard, where they keep the old boots, and rags, and pieces of bottles, and wore-out tin things, and all such truck, and scratched around and found an old tin washpan, and stopped up the holes as well as we could, to bake the pie in, and took it down cellar and stole it full of flour and started for breakfast, and found a couple of shingle-nails that Tom said would be handy for a prison- er to scrabble his name and sorrows on the dungeon walls with, and dropped one of them in Aunt Sally's apron-pocket which was hanging on a chair, and t'other we stuck in the band of Uncle Silas's hat, which was on the bureau, because we heard the chil- dren say their pa and ma was going to the runaway nigger's house this morning, and then went to break- fast, and Tom dropped the pewter spoon in Uncle Silas's coat-pocket, and Aunt Sally wasn't come yet, so we had to wait a little while.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No, he learned to mumble a few words when he lived for three years with a band of trained dogs."
-- I belong to a musical band in my village and I need a drum."
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