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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the Argentines travel in the Pampas they generally dig wells, and find water a few feet below the surface.
-- Wilson and Olbinett joined their companions, and all united to dig through the wall—John with his dagger, the others with stones taken from the ground, or with their nails, while Mulrady, stretched along the ground, watched the native guard through a crevice of the matting.
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：
-- 'He grazed his cattle on these slopes, and he learned to dig for tin when the bronze sword began to supersede the stone axe.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, and he gave me a fearful dig in the chest,' cried the prince, still laughing.
-- I persuaded him that, instead of putting it all away uselessly underground, he had better melt it down and make a golden coffin out of it for his starved child, and then dig up the little one and put her into the golden coffin.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Close outside we will dig a deep trench all round it to keep off both horse and foot, that the Trojan chieftains may not bear hard upon us.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Tabaqui came to me not long ago with some rude talk that I was a naked man's cub and not fit to dig pig-nuts.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, in a year or two I'll send for you, and we'll dig in the Forum for relics, and carry out all the plans we've made so many times.'
-- You and I will read these pleasant little MARCHEN together, and dig no more in that dry book, that goes in the corner for making us trouble.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (Dancing) Go it, Pip!Bang it, bell-boy!Rig it, dig it, stig it, quig it, bell-boy!Make fire-flies; break the jinglers!
-- For nothing was this man more remarkable, than for a certain impersonal stolidity as it were; impersonal, I say; for it so shaded off into the surrounding infinite of things, that it seemed one with the general stolidity discernible in the whole visible world; which while pauselessly active in uncounted modes, still eternally holds its peace, and ignores you, though you dig foundations for cathedrals.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And this put me in mind that I wanted many things not-withstanding all that I had amassed together; and of these, ink was one; as also a spade, pickaxe, and shovel, to dig or remove the earth; needles, pins, and thread; as for linen, I soon learned to want that without much difficulty.
-- - This day I began to dig behind my tent into the rock, to make room for my further conveniency.
-- First, I had no plough to turn up the earth - no spade or shovel to dig it.
-- It would make the reader pity me, or rather laugh at me, to tell how many awkward ways I took to raise this paste; what odd, misshapen, ugly things I made; how many of them fell in and how many fell out, the clay not being stiff enough to bear its own weight; how many cracked by the over-violent heat of the sun, being set out too hastily; and how many fell in pieces with only removing, as well before as after they were dried; and, in a word, how, after having laboured hard to find the clay - to dig it, to temper it, to bring it home, and work it - I could not make above two large earthen ugly things (I cannot call them jars) in about two months' labour.
-- I spent many a day to find out a great stone big enough to cut hollow, and make fit for a mortar, and could find none at all, except what was in the solid rock, and which I had no way to dig or cut out; nor indeed were the rocks in the island of hardness sufficient, but were all of a sandy, crumbling stone, which neither would bear the weight of a heavy pestle, nor would break the corn without filling it with sand.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'd just as leave dig on the streets.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was about to dig out from there in a hurry, but they was pretty close to me then, and sung out and begged me to save their lives said they hadn't been doing noth-ing, and was being chased for it said there was men and dogs a-coming.
-- Says I, if it could stay where it is, all right; because when we get down the river a hundred mile or two I could write back to Mary Jane, and she could dig him up again and get it; but that ain't the thing that's going to happen; the thing that's going to hap-pen is, the money 'll be found when they come to screw on the lid.
-- But the lawyer he jumps on the table and yells, and says: 'Gentlemen gentleMEN!Hear me just a word just a SINGLE word if you PLEASE!There's one way yet let's go and dig up the corpse and look.'
-- The duke says: 'Well, you just own up, first, that you DID hide that mon-ey there, intending to give me the slip one of these days, and come back and dig it up, and have it all to yourself.'
-- We'll DIG him out.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this field you dig a hole and in the hole you bury a gold piece.
-- He would not believe the Parrot's words and began to dig away furiously at the earth.
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