break是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 打破； 中止； 违反vi. 破(裂) n. 休息时间，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sheep stopped in their eating and looked timidly at us; and the cattle, their heads turned from the wind and sleet, stared angrily as if they held us responsible for both annoyances; but, except these things, and the shudder of the dying day in every blade of grass, there was no break in the bleak stillness of the marshes.
-- Then both voices would seem to be stifled in a struggle, and then would break out again.
-- It appeared to me that he must be a very happy man indeed, to have so many little drawers in his shop; and I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside, whether the flower-seeds and bulbs ever wanted of a fine day to break out of those jails, and bloom.
-- You can break his heart."
-- And sometimes, when her moods were so many and so contradictory of one another that I was puzzled what to say or do, Miss Havisham would embrace her with lavish fondness, murmuring something in her ear that sounded like "Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy!"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hans soon came to him-self, and got upon his legs again, sadly vexed, and said to the shepherd, 'This riding is no joke, when a man has the luck to get upon a beast like this that stumbles and flings him off as if it would break his neck.
-- But there went a re-port through all the land of the beautiful sleeping Briar Rose (for so the king's daughter was called): so that, from time to time, several kings' sons came, and tried to break through the thicket into the palace.
-- He told, too, how he had heard from his grand-father that many, many princes had come, and had tried to break through the thicket, but that they had all stuck fast in it, and died.
-- They went and announced him to the 102 Grimms' Fairy Talesking, and gave it as their opinion that if war should break out, this would be a weighty and useful man who ought on no account to be allowed to depart.
-- They walked the whole night long, and by break of day came once more to their father's house.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length, struggling to get loose, I had the fortune to break the strings, and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground; for, by lifting it up to my face, I discovered the methods they had taken to bind me, and at the same time with a violent pull, which gave me excessive pain, I a little loosened the strings that tied down my hair on the left side, so that I was just able to turn my head about two inches.
-- Whereupon I once more thought of attempting to break my bonds; but again, when I felt the smart of their ar-rows upon my face and hands, which were all in blisters, and many of the darts still sticking in them, and observing likewise that the number of my enemies increased, I gave tokens to let them know that they might do with me what they pleased.
-- However, in my opinion, it was extremely prudent, as well as generous: for, supposing these people had endeavoured to kill me with 20 Gulliver's Travelstheir spears and arrows, while I was asleep, I should cer-tainly have awaked with the first sense of smart, which might so far have roused my rage and strength, as to have enabled me to break the strings wherewith I was tied; af-ter which, as they were not able to make resistance, so they could expect no mercy.
-- When the workmen found it was impossible for me to break loose, they cut all the strings that bound me; whereupon I rose up, with as melancholy a disposition as ever I had in my life.
-- He held his sword drawn in his hand to defend himself, if I should happen to break loose; it was almost three inches long; the hilt and scabbard were gold enriched with diamonds.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If you please, sir, when they can get any to break, they do break horses in the ring, sir.'
-- There was another silence; and then she exclaimed, sobbing with her hands before her face, 'Oh, give me my clothes, give me my clothes, and let me go away before I break my heart!'
-- Whether she would instantly depart, bag and baggage, to Lady Scadgers, or would positively refuse to budge from the premises; whether she would be plaintive or abusive, tearful or tearing; whether she would break her heart, or break the looking-glass; Mr. Bounderby could not all foresee.
-- She had that tenderness for his melancholy fate, that his great red countenance used to break out into cold perspirations when she looked at him.
-- But I know he'd die a hundred deaths, ere ever he'd break his word.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Geology and mineralogy were to us the sole objects of life, and in connection with these studies many a fair specimen of stone, chalk, or metal did we break with our hammers.
-- "Now," said my uncle, "let us breakfast, and break fast like people who have a long day's work before them."
-- The sea seems unable to lift him upwards; it is rather the waves which break on his huge and gigantic frame.
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：
-- It had a thrill of its own too: a queer vibrating thrill inside the body, a final spasm of self-assertion, like the last word, exciting, and very like the row of asterisks that can be put to show the end of a paragraph, and a break in the theme.
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