brute是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 禽兽， 畜生，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：
-- But, though the sailors' vengeance was satisfied, their curiosity was not; they knew the brute had no very delicate appetite, and the contents of his stomach might be worth investigation.
-- The huge brute was soon ripped up in a very unceremonious fashion.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That we should have heard his screams my God, those screams! and yet have been unable to save him!Where is this brute of a hound which drove him to his death?
-- Of course we know that a hound does not bite a dead body and that Sir Charles was dead before ever the brute overtook him.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I turned sharp round and saw that the brute had crawled up the wall as high as the level of my face, and that its horrible tail, which was mov-ing incredibly fast from side to side, was actually touching my hair!I jumped up and it disappeared.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shepherd has roused the brute to fury but cannot defend his flock, so he takes shelter un-der cover of the buildings, while the sheep, panic-stricken on being deserted, are smothered in heaps one on top of the other, and the angry lion leaps out over the sheep-yard wall.
-- The wood-man does more by skill than by brute force; by skill the pilot guides his storm-tossed barque over the sea, and so by skill one driver can beat another.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Reins and whip and coachman and guard, however, in combina-tion, had read that article of war which forbade a purpose otherwise strongly in favour of the argument, that some brute animals are endued with Reason; and the team had capitulated and returned to their duty.
-- Lorry, you know what a brute I am; I wish you'd give me a little bran-dy.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am very grateful to you for your confidence, but..." he said, feeling with confusion and annoyance that what he could decide easily and clearly by himself, he could not discuss before Princess Tverskaya, who to him stood for the incarnation of that brute force which would inevitably control him in the life he led in the eyes of the world, and hinder him from giving way to his feeling of love and forgiveness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He was a brute to you, Traddles,' said I, indignantly; for hisgood-humour made me feel as if I had seen him beaten butyesterday.
-- I denounced myselfas a remorseless brute and a ruthless beast.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A voice came from behind some laurel-bushes into which the cat had run:"Poor dear!Did a nasty brute of a dog want to kill it; did he, poor dear!"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was amazed to see such actions and behaviour in brute beasts; and concluded with myself, that if the inhabitants of this country were endued with a proportionable degree of reason, they must needs be the wisest people upon earth.
-- However, this confirmed my first opinion, that a people who could so far civilise brute animals, must needs excel in wisdom all the nations of the world.
-- y principal endeavour was to learn the language, Mwhich my master (for so I shall henceforth call him), and his children, and every servant of his house, were desir-ous to teach me; for they looked upon it as a prodigy, that a brute animal should discover such marks of a rational crea-ture.
-- My master, after some expressions of great indignation, wondered 'how we dared to venture upon a Houyhnhnm's back; for he was sure, that the weakest servant in his house would be able to shake off the strongest Yahoo; or by lying down and rolling on his back, squeeze the brute to death.'
-- Neither was the hair of this brute of a red colour (which might have been some excuse for an appetite a little irregular), but black as a sloe, and her coun-tenance did not make an appearance altogether so hideous as the rest of her kind; for I think she could not be above eleven years old.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But under Mrs Bolton's influence, Clifford was tempt-ed to enter this other fight, to capture the bitch-goddess by brute means of industrial production.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His utter disregard of other people, as shown in his way of tossing the little womanly toys of furniture about, flinging favourite cushions under his boots for a softer rest, and crushing delicate coverings with his big body and his great black head, had the same brute selfishness at the bottom of it.
-- And my beautiful young mistress not so happy as she ought to have been, and I gone away from her!Such a brute and a wretch as she must think me!But you'll say a word to her for me, and ask her to be as forgiving as you two are?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sometimes takes the great Folio whales by the lip, and hangs there like a leech, till the mighty brute is worried to death.
-- For one, I gave myself up to the abandonment of the time and the place; but while yet all a-rush to encounter the whale, could see naught in that brute but the deadliest ill.CHAPTER 42.
-- But the bird has a voice, and with plaintive cries will make known her fear; but the fear of this vast dumb brute of the sea, was chained up and enchanted in him; he had no voice, save that choking respiration through his spiracle, and this made the sight of him unspeakably pitiable; while still, in his amazing bulk, portcullis jaw, and omnipotent tail, there was enough to appal the stoutest man who so pitied.
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