wedge是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 楔子; 楔形物; vt. 挤进; 把…楔住，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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a moment's hesitation, Strickland scrambled to his feet, and together they went to the Bouchee de Pain, where the hungry are given a wedge of bread, which they must eat there and then, for it is forbidden to take it away; and then to the Cuillere de Soupe, where for a week, at eleven and four, you may get a bowl of thin, salt soup.
-- The Cuillere de Soupe and the Asile de Nuit were both closed to them, and their only sustenance was the wedge of bread which the Bouchee de Pain provided.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Insert the wedge into the Prerogative Office, and thecountry would cease to be glorious.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was something to see him wedge the foot of the crutch against a bulkhead, and propped against it, yielding to every movement of the ship, get on with his cooking like someone safe ashore.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In all his ways of sitting and standing, and eating and drinking,--of brooding about in a high-shouldered reluctant style,--of taking out his great horn-handled jackknife and wiping it on his legs and cutting his food,--of lifting light glasses and cups to his lips, as if they were clumsy pannikins,--of chopping a wedge off his bread, and soaking up with it the last fragments of gravy round and round his plate, as if to make the most of an allowance, and then drying his finger-ends on it, and then swallowing it,--in these ways and a thousand other small nameless instances arising every minute in the day, there was Prisoner, Felon, Bondsman, plain as plain could be.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had just driven the wedge safely in, and everything was going as I wished; but the cursed wedge was too smooth and suddenly sprang out, and the tree closed so quickly that I could not pull out my beautiful white beard; so now it is tight and I cannot get away, and the silly, sleek, milk-faced things laugh!Ugh!how odious you are!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, for greater precaution, Herbert took the trouble, which Neb deemed superfluous, to wedge up the animal with great stones; after which the two hunters returned to Granite House, following the beach, which the tide had left uncovered.
-- And he told how he had taken care to wedge up the turtle with stones.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His heaven-insulting purpose, God may wedge aside.
-- A quoin is a solid which differs from a wedge in having its sharp end formed by the steep inclination of one side, instead of the mutual tapering of both sides.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This led her to believe that neglect was creeping in, and so another small wedge was entered.
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