pool是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 水池， 游泳池； 合资经营v. 合伙经营， 联营，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 a large, airy place, with a little spring and a pool of clear water, overhung with ferns.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A pool of blood on the steps near his head gave rise to grave fears.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a pool of clear water in the field, in which the child laved her hands and face, and cooled her feet before setting forth to walk again.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Father Wolf taught him his business, and the meaning of things in the jungle, till every rustle in the grass, every breath of the warm night air, every note of the owls above his head, every scratch of a bat's claws as it roosted for a while in a tree, and every splash of every little fish jumping in a pool meant just as much to him as the work of his office means to a business man.
-- Then he turned aside to tell Bagheera how he had begged the Master Words from Hathi the Wild Elephant, who knows all about these things, and how Hathi had taken Mowgli down to a pool to get the Snake Word from a water-snake, because Baloo could not pronounce it, and how Mowgli was now reasonably safe against all accidents in the jungle, be-cause neither snake, bird, nor beast would hurt him.
-- The herd splashed through the pool he had just left, bellowing till the narrow cut rang.
-- After that, he learned to lie in a beach pool and let the wash of the waves just cover him and lift him up while he paddled, but he always kept his eye open for big waves that might hurt.
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：
-- Another groan more faint than the former was succeeded by a heavy and sullen plunge into the water, and all was still again as if the borders of the dreary pool had never been awakened from the silence of creation.
-- A single, solitary, snow-white cloud floated above the valley, and marked the spot beneath which lay the silent pool of the 'bloody pond.'
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