spot是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 斑点； 地点v. 认出， 认清， 发现； 玷污， 弄脏，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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not speak, he could not move from the spot where he stood.
-- So they walked off together towards the spot where Chanticleer had seen the light, and as they drew near it became larger and brighter, till they at last came close to a house in which a gang of robbers lived.
-- When the seven kids saw that, they came run-ning to the spot and cried aloud: 'The wolf is dead!The wolf is dead!'
-- The ecclesiastics recognized therein the token from above, and asked him on the spot if he would be pope.
-- So he set out and followed the same road which his brother had done, and met with the same elf, who stopped him at the same spot in the mountains, saying, as before, 'Prince, prince, whither so fast?'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ladies and courtiers were all most magnificently clad; so that the spot they stood upon seemed to resemble a petti-coat spread upon the ground, embroidered with figures of gold and silver.
-- And he gave it for his opinion, 'that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of poli-ticians put together.'
-- The wives and daughters lament their confinement to the island, although I think it the most delicious spot of ground in the world; and although they live here in the greatest plen-ty and magnificence, and are allowed to do whatever they please, they long to see the world, and take the diversions of the metropolis, which they are not allowed to do without a particular license from the king; and this is not easy to be obtained, because the people of quality have found, by frequent experience, how hard it is to persuade their wom-en to return from below.
-- He told me 'that sometimes, though very rarely, a child happened to be born in a family, with a red circular spot in the forehead, directly over the left eye- brow, which was an infallible mark that it should never die.'
-- I discovered my admiration that I had not observed any of these illustrious persons at court; the black spot on the forehead being so remarkable a distinction, that I could not have easily overlooked it: and it was impossible that his 262 Gulliver's Travelsmajesty, a most judicious prince, should not provide him-self with a good number of such wise and able counsellors.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dumb with amazement, Mr. Gradgrind crossed to the spot where his family was thus disgraced, laid his hand upon each erring child, and said:'Louisa!!Thomas!!'
-- From this dismal spot they were rescued by a savage old postilion, who happened to be up early, kicking a horse in a fly: and so were smuggled into the town by all the back lanes where the pigs lived: which, although not a magnificent or even savoury approach, was, as is usual in such cases, the legitimate highway.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mighty whirlwind of sand was spreading up the slope of the mountain to the very spot where we had proposed to halt.
-- We had reached a spot where the rocks said in unmistakable accents--No Thoroughfare.
-- Hans halted at the precise spot where the sound of the torrent appeared nearest.
-- I understood at once that he was searching for the exact spot where the torrent's roar was most plainly heard.
-- "This proves," I cried, "that the great point of magnetic attraction lies somewhere between the surface of the earth and the spot we have succeeded in reaching."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her room was the only gay, modern one in the house, the only spot in Wragby where her personality was at all revealed.
-- He shut the gate quietly after her, and made a spot of light on the dark ground, showing the pallid flowers still standing there open in the night.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, John Baptist, now able to choose his own spot within the compass of those walls for the exercise of his faculty of going to sleep when he would, lay down upon the bench, with his face turned over on his crossed arms, and slumbered.
-- Strange, if the little sick-room fire were in effect a beacon fire, summoning some one, and that the most unlikely some one in the world, to the spot that must be come to.
-- She now ventured to leave the spot where she had been standing since she had risen, and to pass gently round by the wheeled chair.
-- As she spoke these words, she put her hand upon the watch, and restored it to the precise spot on her little table which it always occupied.
-- And Mr Chivery junior went his way, having spontaneously composed on the spot an entirely new epitaph for himself, to the effect that Here lay the body of John Chivery, Who, Having at such a date, Beheld the idol of his life, In grief and tears, And feeling unable to bear the harrowing spectacle, Immediately repaired to the abode of his inconsolable parents, And terminated his existence by his own rash act.
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