tiger是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 虎； 老虎，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：
-- Better to meet a tiger on the plain than a serpent in the grass.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They passed without seeing us, brushing us with their brownish fins, and we escaped by a miracle from a danger certainly greater than meeting a tiger full-face in the forest.
-- If you were asked to hunt the lion in the plains of Atlas, or the tiger in the Indian jungles, what would you say?
-- "Ha!ha!it seems we are going to hunt the tiger or the lion!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rustling about the room, his softly-slippered feet making no noise on the floor, he moved like a refined tiger: looked like some enchanted marquis of the impenitently wicked sort, in story, whose pe-riodical change into tiger form was either just going off, or just coming on.
-- When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained not shown yet always ready.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
-- Shere Khan was the tiger who lived near the Waingunga River, twenty miles away.
-- Father Wolf listened, and below in the valley that ran down to a little river he heard the dry, angry, snarly, sing-song whine of a tiger who has caught nothing and does not care if all the jungle knows it.
-- But Father Wolf knew that the mouth of the cave was too narrow for a tiger to come in by.
-- Shere Khan was always crossing his path in the jungle, for as Akela grew older and feebler the lame tiger had come to be great friends with the younger wolves of the Pack, who followed him for scraps, a thing Akela would never have al-lowed if he had dared to push his authority to the proper bounds.
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：
-- The form of Uncas dilated, and his nostrils opened like those of a tiger at bay; but so rigid and unyielding was his posture, that he might easily have been converted by the imagination into an exquisite and faultless representation of the warlike deity of his tribe.
-- The Huron sprang like a tiger on his offending and -already retreating country man, but the falling form of Uncas separated the unnatural combatants.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was fine and occasionally gorgeous, with tiger in her, though she was as far from perfumed-boudoir and black-lingerie passion as she was from Capitola's cooling staleness.
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：
-- The emotions common to most of us simply did not exist in him, and it was as absurd to blame him for not feeling them as for blaming the tiger because he is fierce and cruel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I recollect it was settled bygeneral consent that India was quite a misrepresented country, andhad nothing objectionable in it, but a tiger or two, and a little heatin the warm part of the day.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is impossible to overstate the vividness of these images, and yet I was so intent, all the time, upon him himself,--who would not be intent on the tiger crouching to spring!--that I knew of the slightest action of his fingers.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well," replied the reporter, who had already hunted the tiger in India, and the lion in Africa, "we shall soon learn how successfully to encounter them.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So that not the fierce-fanged tiger in his heraldic coat can so stagger courage as the white-shrouded bear or shark.
-- Those tiger yellow creatures of his seemed all steel and whalebone; like five trip-hammers they rose and fell with regular strokes of strength, which periodically started the boat along the water like a horizontal burst boiler out of a Mississippi steamer.
-- yelled Daggoo, straining forwards and backwards on his seat, like a pacing tiger in his cage.
-- At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hearth-stone cats they purr against the gunwale; these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.
-- Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the tiger no responsibility rests.
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