dig是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 挖， 掘，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was on his way to dig some one out of a grave.
-- After such imaginary discourse, the passenger in his fancy would dig, and dig, dig now with a spade, now with a great key, now with his hands to dig this wretched crea-ture out.
-- Some, to the fountain; some, to the fields; men and women here, to dig and delve; men and women there, to see to the poor live stock, and lead the bony cows out, to such pasture as could be found by the roadside.
-- Villain Foulon taken, my sis-ter!Old Foulon taken, my mother!Miscreant Foulon taken, my daughter!Then, a score of others ran into the midst of these, beating their breasts, tearing their hair, and scream-ing, Foulon alive!Foulon who told the starving people they might eat grass!Foulon who told my old father that he might eat grass, when I had no bread to give him!Foulon who told my baby it might suck grass, when these breasts where dry with want!O mother of God, this Foulon!O Heaven our suffering!Hear me, my dead baby and my withered father: I swear on my knees, on these stones, to avenge you on Fou-lon!Husbands, and brothers, and young men, Give us the blood of Foulon, Give us the head of Foulon, Give us the heart of Foulon, Give us the body and soul of Foulon, Rend Foulon to pieces, and dig him into the ground, that grass may grow from him!With these cries, numbers of the wom-en, lashed into blind frenzy, whirled about, striking and tearing at their own friends until they dropped into a pas-sionate swoon, and were only saved by the men belonging to them from being trampled under foot.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The further he rode, the happier he became, and plans for the land rose to his mind each better than the last; to plant all his fields with hedges along the southern borders, so that the snow should not lie under them; to divide them up into six fields of arable and three of pasture and hay; to build a cattle yard at the further end of the estate, and to dig a pond and to construct movable pens for the cattle as a means of manuring the land.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rouncefield told me to dig up a man."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Iwatched her, with my heart at my lips, as she marched to a cornerof her garden, and stopped to dig up some little root there.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Us is ter dig de ditches fer de wite gempmums ter hide in w'en deYankees comes."
-- You go out and dig us some and roast them.
-- "Bring them before you dig the potatoes.
-- Hurry, Pork, and dig it up and bring us two glasses and some mintand sugar and I'll mix a julep."
-- And you, Pork, go dig up that whiskyand then some potatoes."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he was brought before the king, and the king said, 'You shall never have my daughter unless in eight days you dig away the hill that stops the view from my window.'
-- 'Go into the garden and dig where I tell you, and you will find the yellow but-tons: I dare not go myself.'
-- So he hired some villains to murder him; and having shown them where to lie in ambush, he went to his broth-er, and said, 'Dear brother, I have found a hidden treasure; let us go and dig it up, and share it between us.'
-- 'That you should dig all round my garden for me, tomorrow.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That in some fields of his country there are certain shining stones of several colours, whereof the Yahoos are violently fond: and when part of these stones is fixed in the earth, as it sometimes happens, they will dig with their claws for whole days to get them out; then carry them away, and hide them by heaps in their kennels; but still looking round with great caution, for fear their comrades should find out their treasure.'
-- The Houyhnhnms keep the Yahoos for present use in huts not far from the house; but the rest are sent abroad to certain fields, where they dig up roots, eat several kinds of herbs, and search about for carrion, or sometimes catch weasels and luhimuhs (a sort of wild rat), which they greed-ily devour.
-- Nature has taught them to dig deep holes with their nails on the side of a rising ground, wherein they lie by themselves; only the kennels of the females are larger, suf-ficient to hold two or three cubs.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Icelander went back to the raft, and soon returned with a huge crowbar, with which he began to dig a hole in the rock, which was to serve as a mine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passing, now the mouldy hall of some obsolete Worshipful Company, now the illuminated windows of a Congregationless Church that seemed to be waiting for some adventurous Belzoni to dig it out and discover its history; passing silent warehouses and wharves, and here and there a narrow alley leading to the river, where a wretched little bill, FOUND DROWNED, was weeping on the wet wall; he came at last to the house he sought.
-- As it seemed reasonable to conclude that a man who had never been buried could not be unburied, the diggers gave him up when their task was done, and did not dig down for him into the depths of the earth.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meg went back to toast her feet and read IVANHOE, and Jo began to dig paths with great energy.
-- She saw Mr. Lawrence drive off, and then sallied out to dig her way down to the hedge, where she paused and took a survey.
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