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 was part of his very being that he must break off any connexion, and be loose, isolated, absolutely lone dog again.
-- She must only wait, for she did not dare to break his mysterious stillness.
-- But addled eggs do break of themselves.'
-- 'You'll only break the thing down altogether, Clifford,' she remonstrated; 'besides wasting your nervous energy.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We must break it to get it through into the cage.
-- Go outside and fetch a little brandy, or I foresee that you'll break down.'
-- As to Fire in the prison, if one were to break out while he lay there?
-- When he awoke, and sprang up causelessly frightened, the words were in his ears, as if her voice had slowly spoken them at his pillow, to break his rest: 'He withers away in his prison; I wither away in mine; inexorable justice is done; what do I owe on this score!'
-- There, in the back street he found one, the Break of Day.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am sorry this has happened, but I never allow my rules to be infringed, and I never break my word.
-- It would have been bad enough to go to her seat, and see the pitying faces of her friends, or the sat-isfied ones of her few enemies, but to face the whole school, with that shame fresh upon her, seemed impossible, and for a second she felt as if she could only drop down where she stood, and break her heart with crying.
-- 'Yes, I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked,' answered Mrs. March with a sigh and a smile, as she smoothed and fastened up Jo's disheveled hair.
-- But he's set, and I've got to do just as he did, unless I break away and please myself, as my father did.
-- Brooke will scratch up a for-tune somehow, carry her off, and make a hole in the family, and I shall break my heart, and everything will be abomina-bly uncomfortable.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'll break it for him," said I, now flying into a passion again at this unaccountable farrago of the landlord's.
-- All these queer proceedings increased my uncomfortableness, and seeing him now exhibiting strong symptoms of concluding his business operations, and jumping into bed with me, I thought it was high time, now or never, before the light was put out, to break the spell in which I had so long been bound.
-- "Have to burst it open," said I, and was running down the entry a little, for a good start, when the landlady caught at me, again vowing I should not break down her premises; but I tore from her, and with a sudden bodily rush dashed myself full against the mark.
-- But somehow I dropped off at last, and knew nothing more till break of day; when, looking over the bedside, there squatted Queequeg, as if he had been screwed down to the floor.
-- "Spring, thou sheep-head; spring, and break thy backbone!Why don't ye spring, I say, all of ye spring!Quohog!spring, thou chap with the red whiskers; spring there, Scotch-cap; spring, thou green pants.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Make him come home, there's good people, or he'll kill his dear mother and father, and break my heart!'
-- 'One of the frightened servants chose to take it into his head, that he had something to do with this attempt to break into the house; but it's nonsense: sheer absurdity.'
-- If I did not feel this, and know, besides, that a changed behaviour in one she loved would break her heart, I should not feel my task so difficult of performance, or have to encounter so many struggles in my own bosom, when I take what seems to me to be the strict line of duty.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They stood for some time without speaking a word; and she began to imagine that their silence was to last through the two dances, and at first was resolved not to break it; till suddenly fancying that it would be the greater punishment to her partner to oblige him to talk, she made some slight observation on the dance.
-- 'I am sure I shall break MINE,' said Lydia.
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