pigeon是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 鸽，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Achilles next offered a prize of iron for archery ten double-edged axes and ten with single edges: he set up a ship's mast, some way off upon the sands, and with a fine string tied a pigeon to it by the foot; this was what they were to aim at.
-- 'Whoever,' he said, 'can hit the pigeon shall have all the axes and take them away with him; he who hits the string without hitting the bird will have taken a worse aim and shall have the single-edged axes.'
-- Mer-iones, who had his arrow ready while Teucer was aiming, snatched the bow out of his hand, and at once promised that he would sacrifice a hecatomb of firstling lambs toApollo lord of the bow; then espying the pigeon high up under the clouds, he hit her in the middle of the wing as she was circling upwards; the arrow went clean through the wing and fixed itself in the ground at Meriones' feet, but the bird perched on the ship's mast hanging her head and with all her feathers drooping; the life went out of her, and she fell heavily from the mast.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Kiss it,' cried the little girl, and flung the pigeon in Gerda's face.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So a big pigeon pie was brought in and put on a sidetable, and I made a hearty supper, for I was as hungry as a hawk, while Mr. Dance was further complimented and at last dismissed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He brought down a white pigeon and a wood-pigeon, which, cleverly plucked and suspended from a skewer, was roasted before a red fire of dead wood.
-- Then, as specimens of other kinds, some ovoides, resembling an egg of a dark brown colour, marked with white bands, and without tails; diodons, real sea-porcupines, furnished with spikes, and capable of swelling in such a way as to look like cushions bristling with darts; hippocampi, common to every ocean; some pegasi with lengthened snouts, which their pectoral fins, being much elongated and formed in the shape of wings, allow, if not to fly, at least to shoot into the air; pigeon spatulae, with tails covered with many rings of shell; macrognathi with long jaws, an excellent fish, nine inches long, and bright with most agreeable colours; pale-coloured calliomores, with rugged heads; and plenty of chaetpdons, with long and tubular muzzles, which kill insects by shooting them, as from an air-gun, with a single drop of water.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am looking back at my little pigeon which is sitting on the roof, and wants to say goodbye to me,' answered Hansel.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He hailed me to follow him, and, after marching through a wash house, and a paved area containing a coal shed, pump, and pigeon cot, we at length arrived in the huge, warm, cheerful apartment where I was formerly received.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- that of falling into the hands of cannibals and savages, who would have seized on me with the same view as I would on a goat or turtle; and have thought it no more crime to kill and de-vour me than I did of a pigeon or a curlew.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just then a large Pigeon flew far above him.
-- At this answer, the Pigeon flew swiftly down to the earth.
-- The Pigeon flew away, and in a few minutes he had reached the clouds.
-- Toward evening the Pigeon said: "I'm very thirsty!"
-- "Let us stop a few minutes at that pigeon coop down there.
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