vault是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 拱顶； 地下室， 地窖，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus he spoke, and when each of them had marked his lot, and had thrown it into the helmet of Agamemnon son of Atreus, the people lifted their hands in prayer, and thus would one of them say as he looked into the vault of heaven, 'Father Jove, grant that the lot fall on Ajax, or on the son of Tydeus, or upon the king of rich Mycene himself.'
-- With this they fell praying to King Jove the son of Saturn, and thus would one of them say as he looked into the vault of heaven, 'Father Jove that rulest from Ida, most glorious in power, vouchsafe victory to Ajax, and let him win great glory: but if you wish well to Hector also and would protect him, grant to each of them equal fame and prowess.'
-- The sun was beginning to beat upon the fields, fresh ris-en into the vault of heaven from the slow still currents of deep Oceanus, when the two armies met.
-- They fought and fought, and an iron clank rose through the void air to the brazen vault of heaven.
-- The other Achaeans sat where they were all silent and orderly to hear the king, and Agamemnon looked into the vault of heaven and prayed saying, 'I call Jove the first and mighti-est of all gods to witness, I call also Earth and Sun and the Erinyes who dwell below and take vengeance on him who shall swear falsely, that I have laid no hand upon the girl Briseis, neither to take her to my bed nor otherwise, but that she has remained in my tents inviolate.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Holding his head bent down before him, and struggling with the wind that strove to tear the wraps away from him, Levin was moving up to the copse and had just caught sight of something white behind the oak tree, when there was a sudden flash, the whole earth seemed on fire, and the vault of heaven seemed crashing overhead.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I've been an itinerant singer, a circus-rider, when I used to vault like Leotard, and dance on a rope like Blondin.
-- Passepartout, in his joy on reaching at last the American continent, thought he would manifest it by executing a perilous vault in fine style; but, tumbling upon some worm-eaten planks, he fell through them.
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：
-- After allowing a moment of stillness to enforce his disci-pline, the voice of the singer was heard, in low, murmuring syllables, gradually stealing on the ear, until it filled the nar-row vault with sounds rendered trebly thrilling by the feeble and tremulous utterance produced by his debility.
-- Beyond him again, Duncan could look into the vault op-posite, which was filled with savages, upturning and rifling the humble furniture of the scout.
-- Her ringlets were compared to the exuberant tendrils of the vine, her eye to the blue vault of heavens, and the most spot-less cloud, with its glowing flush of the sun, was admitted to be less attractive than her bloom.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once, I had been taken to one of our old marsh churches to see a skeleton in the ashes of a rich dress that had been dug out of a vault under the church pavement.
-- It was a sort of vault on the ground floor at the back, with a despotic monster of a four-post bedstead in it, straddling over the whole place, putting one of his arbitrary legs into the fireplace and another into the doorway, and squeezing the wretched little washing-stand in quite a Divinely Righteous manner.
-- It came into my head that he must have occupied this very vault of mine, and I got out of bed to assure myself that there were no red marks about; then opened the door to look out into the passages, and cheer myself with the companionship of a distant light, near which I knew the chamberlain to be dozing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Others, reposing upon heaps of coals or ashes, with their faces turned to the black vault above, slept or rested from their toil.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a school-room, and the speaker's square forefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster's sleeve.
-- A blur of soot and smoke, now confusedly tending this way, now that way, now aspiring to the vault of Heaven, now murkily creeping along the earth, as the wind rose and fell, or changed its quarter: a dense formless jumble, with sheets of cross light in it, that showed nothing but masses of darkness: Coketown in the distance was suggestive of itself, though not a brick of it could be seen.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From its mighty extent I saw at once that the hand of man could have had nothing to do with this coal mine; the vault above would have fallen in; as it was, it was only held together by some miracle of nature.
-- The tremendous vault above our heads, the sky, so to speak, appeared to be composed of a conglomeration of nebulous vapors, in constant motion.
-- "You are quite right," said the Professor, laughing; "it sounds very alarming, the weight being heavy--but the vault which supports this vast mass of earth and rock is solid and safe; the mighty Architect of the Universe has constructed it of solid materials.
-- Above all, near the leaden granitic sky, were immense birds, more powerful than the cassowary an d the ostrich, which spread their mighty wings and fluttered against the huge stone vault of the inland sea.
-- But the vault above is tranquil.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- - I began now to think my cave or vault finished, when on a sudden (it seems I had made it too large) a great quantity of earth fell down from the top on one side; so much that, in short, it frighted me, and not without rea-son, too, for if I had been under it, I had never wanted a gravedigger.
-- When I had got through the strait, I found the roof rose higher up, I believe near twenty feet; but never was such a glorious sight seen in the island, I dare-say, as it was to look round the sides and roof of this vault or cave - the wall reflected a hundred thousand lights to me from my two candles.
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