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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To follow them and break into their intimate conversation seemed to be an outrage, and yet my clear duty was never for an instant to let him out of my sight.
-- My blood ran cold in my veins, for there was a break in his voice which told of the sudden horror which had seized him.
-- 'He'll break into no house, sir.
-- The cloud was within fifty yards of where we lay, and we glared at it, all three, uncertain what horror was about to break from the heart of it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, although there's comparative peace at home at present, the storm will break if anything is finally settled tonight.'
-- Finally, Totski took cunning means to try to break his chains and be free.
-- 'As soon as I had finished reading it, she told me that you were fishing for her; that you wished to compromise her so far as to receive some hopes from her, trusting to which hopes you might break with the prospect of receiving a hundred thousand roubles.
-- At this moment there was a terrific bang at the front door, almost enough to break it down.
-- He had chosen his ideal, and he was bound to serve her, and break lances for her, and acknowl-edge her as the ideal of pure Beauty, whatever she might say or do afterwards.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They surged to and fro like the waves of the Icarian Sea, when the east and south winds break from heaven's clouds to lash them; or as when the west wind sweeps over a field of corn and the ears bow beneath the blast, even so were they swayed as they flew with loud cries towards the ships, and the dust from under their feet rose heavenward.
-- As when the waves run high before the blast of the south wind and break on some lofty headland, dashing against it and buffeting it without ceasing, as the storms from every quar-ter drive them, even so did the Achaeans rise and hurry in all directions to their ships.
-- The strap of the helmet that went under his chin was choking him, and Menelaus would have dragged him off to his own great glory had not Jove's daughter Venus been quick to mark and to break the strap of oxhide, so that the empty helmet came away in his hand.
-- Tell Minerva to go and take part in the fight at once, and let her contrive that the Tro-jans shall be the first to break their oaths and set upon the Achaeans.'
-- The sire of gods and men heeded her words, and said to Minerva, 'Go at once into the Trojan and Achaean hosts, and contrive that the Trojans shall be the first to break their oaths and set upon the Achaeans.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XII THE INVISIBLE MAN LOSES HIS TEMPER It is unavoidable that at this point the narrative should break off again, for a certain very painful reason that will presently be apparent.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Evil are the punishments of those who break the Law.
-- said I, with a break in my voice; and they came back, hurrying and fearful, to the margin of the water, leav-ing long wakes of black in the silver.
-- I had recovered strength amazingly since my landing, but I was still inclined to be nervous and to break down under any great stress.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dawn was beginning to break when Mowgli went down the hillside alone, to meet those mysterious things that are called men.
-- They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them, and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers fall.
-- I break down the wall.'
-- Up and kill!Here is meat; break the necks of the bulls!
-- The sea is full of fire on summer nights all the way down from Novastoshnah to Lukannon, and each seal leaves a wake like burning oil behind him and a flaming flash when he jumps, and the waves break in great phos-phorescent streaks and swirls.
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：
-- If you are led into the woods, that is such of you as may be spared for awhile, break the twigs on the bushes as you pass, and make the marks of your trail as broad as you can, when, if mortal eyes can see them, de-pend on having a friend who will follow to the ends of the 'arth afore he desarts you.'
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