gun是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 枪， 炮， 手枪，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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He remembered pushing, with a big leather pad on his forehead, at a gun stuck in deep mud, and that was before the Afghan War of 1842, and he had not then come to his full strength.
-- Then the branches closed over his head again, and Kala Nag began to go down into the valley not quietly this time, but as a runaway gun goes down a steep bank in one rush.
-- There was a regular beat of hoofs in the darkness, and a big troop-horse cantered up as steadily as though he were on parade, jumped a gun tail, and landed close to the mule.
-- 'I'm the breech-piece mule of number two gun of the First Screw Battery,' said the mule, 'and the other's one of your friends.
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：
-- said the scout, seating himself on a projection of the rock, and suf-fering his gun to fall neglected at his feet, 'for the three quickest and truest rifles in these woods are no better than so many stalks of mullein, or the last year's horns of a buck!'
-- 'La Longue Carabine'!His rifle is good, and his eye never shut; but, like the short gun of the white chief, it is nothing against the life of Le Subtil.'
-- The transportation of a single heavy gun was often consid-ered equal to a victory gained; if happily, the difficulties of the passage had not so far separated it from its necessary concomitant, the ammunition, as to render it no more than a useless tube of unwieldy iron.
-- said the scout; 'the boy bears a smart piece!I know its crack, as well as a father knows the lan-guage of his child, for I carried the gun myself until a better offered.'
-- The Huron inthe bows of the leading canoe had risen with a similar ob-ject, and he now fell backward, suffering his gun to escape from his hands into the water.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the story of Doffue Martling, a large blue-bearded Dutchman, who had nearly taken a British frigate with an old iron nine-pounder from a mud breastwork, only that his gun burst at the sixth discharge.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A shot fired among this swarm would have killed a great number, but to fire a shot a gun was needed, and neither Pencroft nor Herbert had one; besides this, gulls and sea- mews are scarcely eatable, and even their eggs have a detestable taste.
-- replied the engineer, "we might, no doubt, find all these substances on the island, but a gun is a delicate instrument, and needs very particular tools.
-- One shot from a gun would certainly have brought down some dozen of the birds, they were so close together.
-- The latter, knowing well that without special tools it would be nearly impossible for him to manufacture a gun which would be of any use, still drew back and put off the operation to some future time, observing in his usual dry way, that Herbert and Spilett had become very skilful archers, so that many sorts of excellent animals, agouties, kangaroos, capybaras, pigeons, bustards, wild ducks, snipes, in short, game both with fur and feathers, fell victims to their arrows, and that, consequently, they could wait.
-- "It is certain that a gun has been fired in the island, within three months at most.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said at length, in a voice, and with a suddenness, which made the child start as though a gun had been fired off at her ear.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'll fire a gun half an hour before sundown."
-- When the gun fired, how should I dare to go down to the boats among those fiends, still smoking from their crime?
-- "They could never get the gun ashore, and if they did, they could never haul it through the woods."
-- Not only that, but it flashed into my mind at the same moment that the round-shot and the powder for the gun had been left behind, and a stroke with an axe would put it all into the possession of the evil ones abroad.
-- "I wish I had had a lick at them with the gun first," he replied.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The forecastle gun was immediately loaded and slewed round.
-- An old gunner with a grey beard that I can see now with steady eye and grave face, went up to the gun and took a long aim.
-- But, if I am forced to admit the Rouquayrol and Ruhmkorff apparatus, I must be allowed some reservations with regard to the gun I am to carry."
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