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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everyone seemed to be talking, and I, sitting in silence, felt awkward; but I was too shy to break into any of the groups that seemed absorbed in their own affairs.
-- At last I had to break the silence myself.
-- If, seized by an intolerable boredom, he had determined to be a painter merely to break with irksome ties, it would have been comprehensible, and commonplace; but commonplace is precisely what I felt he was not.
-- It is the policeman in all our hearts, set there to watch that we do not break its laws.
-- Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Herbert was the first to break the silence by saying, "Mr. Spilett, you are a smoker and always have matches about you; perhaps you haven't looked well, try again, a single match will be enough!"
-- But the bank was not without some obstacles: here, the flexible branches of the trees bent level with the current; there, creepers and thorns which they had to break down with their sticks.
-- There was not a stratum, not a break in it.
-- The wood formed an impenetrable screen, measuring several square miles, without a break or an opening.
-- It is shut up, and nothing to open it with!Well, perhaps a stone " And the sailor, raising a heavy block, was about to break in one of the sides of the chest, when the engineer arrested his hand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She gives it cheerfully as you see, and it would break her heart if she knew that I suffered anybody else to do for me what her little hands could undertake.
-- 'I'll bruise you until you're copper-coloured, I'll break your faces till you haven't a profile between you, I will.'
-- If you are poor, let us be poor together; but let me be with you, do let me be with you; do not let me see such change and not know why, or I shall break my heart and die.
-- 'Mind you don't break out again, you villain,' said Quilp, looking sternly at him, 'or I'll make faces at you and throw you into fits, I will.
-- At length, towards break of day, that deep sleep came upon her which succeeds to weariness and over-watching, and which has no consciousness but one of overpowering and irresistible enjoyment.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first Nekhludoff could not resist her wiles, then, feeling himself at fault, he could not break off the relations against her will.
-- He also thought that while it was a pity to leave now, without enjoying his love in its fullness, the necessity of going was advantageous in that he was able to break the relations which it were difficult to keep up.
-- The questions that absorbed him now were: How to break loose from Maria Vasilievna and her husband, so that he might be able to look them in the face?
-- "I shall break this lie that binds me at any cost.
-- the three judges in high collars on the elevation, the silence, the seating of the jury on high-backed chairs, the gendarmes, the priest--he felt that, though it was necessary to do it, he would not have been able even yesterday to break this solemnity.
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：
-- Willing to divert a distress which threatened each moment to break through the restraint of appearances, by giving the veteran some-thing to do, the young man said to the scout: 'As we now possess these infallible signs, let us com-mence our march.
-- Let them come up within striking distance my eye may well be trusted in such a matter and I will trail the varlets the length of the Horican, guaranteeing that not a shot of theirs shall, at the worst, more than break the skin, while 'killdeer' shall touch the life twice in three times.'
-- Keep silent as long as may be; and it would be wise, when you do speak, to break out suddenly in one of your shoutings, which will serve to re-mind the Indians that you are not altogether as responsible as men should be.
-- Hawkeye, who feared his voice would betray him to his sub-tle enemies, gladly profited by the interruption, to break out anew in such a burst of musical expression as would, prob-ably, in a more refined state of society have been termed 'a grand crash.'
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