dragon是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 龙，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I implored him to spare her gentle nature- not tocrush a fragile flower- and addressed him generally, to the best ofmy remembrance, as if, instead of being her father, he had been anogre, or the Dragon of Wantley.
-- I told him that I was going down to myaunt, the Dragon of that night, early in the morning; and that shewas one of the most tender-hearted and excellent of women, as he 770would know full well if he knew her better.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I suppose Brass and the Dragon and I do the dirtiest part of it,' thought Dick.
-- I wonder whether she is a dragon by-the-bye, or something in the mermaid way.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A hot breeze, as if breathed from the parted lips of some dragon about to swallow the globe, fanned him from the south, while directly opposite in the north rose a grim misshapen body of cloud, in the very teeth of the wind.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was about nine miles long and five across, shaped, you might say, like a fat dragon standing up, and had two fine land-locked harbours, and a hill in the centre part marked "The Spy-glass."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I will soon find out where she is, however,' said the star-gazer, as he looked through his glass; and he soon cried out, 'I see her afar off, sitting upon a rock in the sea, and I can spy the dragon close by, guarding her.'
-- There they found the princess sit-ting, as the star-gazer had said, on the rock; and the dragon was lying asleep, with his head upon her lap.
-- Then away they hastened with her full of joy in their boat towards the ship; but soon came the dragon roaring behind them through the air; for he awoke and missed the prin-cess.
-- And the king then gave to each half a kingdom, as he had said; and they lived very happily the rest of their days, and took good care of their father; and somebody took better care of the young lady, than to let ei-ther the dragon or one of the craftsmen have her again.
-- Then the east wind and the west wind came, and said they too had not seen it, but the south wind said, 'I have seen the white dove he has fled to the Red Sea, and is changed once more into a lion, for the seven years are passed away, and there he is fighting with a dragon; and the dragon is an enchant-ed princess, who seeks to separate him from you.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The townspeople who, in their passing and repassing, saw her there, regarded her as the Bank Dragon keeping watch over the treasures of the mine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the dining-room, a sentimental desire came over Flora to look into the dragon closet which had so often swallowed Arthur in the days of his boyhood not improbably because, as a very dark closet, it was a likely place to be heavy in.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Akin to the adventure of Perseus and Andromeda indeed, by some supposed to be indirectly derived from it is that famous story of St. George and the Dragon; which dragon I maintain to have been a whale; for in many old chronicles whales and dragons are strangely jumbled together, and often stand for each other.
-- "Thou art as a lion of the waters, and as a dragon of the sea," saith Ezekiel; hereby, plainly meaning a whale; in truth, some versions of the Bible use that word itself.
-- Let not the modern paintings of this scene mislead us; for though the creature encountered by that valiant whaleman of old is vaguely represented of a griffin-like shape, and though the battle is depicted on land and the saint on horseback, yet considering the great ignorance of those times, when the true form of the whale was unknown to artists; and considering that as in Perseus' case, St. George's whale might have crawled up out of the sea on the beach; and considering that the animal ridden by St. George might have been only a large seal, or sea-horse; bearing all this in mind, it will not appear altogether incompatible with the sacred legend and the ancientest draughts of the scene, to hold this so-called dragon no other than the great Leviathan himself.
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