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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This brute began barking and leaping, showing, as it seemed to me, only too plainly that he was aware of me.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I think Montgomery might have left him then, seeing the brute was drunk; but he only turned a shade paler, and fol-lowed the captain to the bulwarks.
-- The poor brute seemed horribly scared, and crouched in the bottom of its little cage.
-- Then the poor brute within gave vent to a series of short, sharp cries.
-- Then looking hard, I dis-tinguished through the interlacing network the head and body of the brute I had seen drinking.
-- It was no brute this time; it was a human being in torment!
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was nothing in the way of fighting that Kala Nag, the old wise Black Snake, did not know, for he had stood up more than once in his time to the charge of the wounded tiger, and, curling up his soft trunk to be out of harm's way, had knocked the springing brute sideways in mid-air with a quick sickle cut of his head, that he had invented all by him-self; had knocked him over, and kneeled upon him with his huge knees till the life went out with a gasp and a howl, and there was only a fluffy striped thing on the ground for Kala Nag to pull by the tail.
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：
-- So saying the honest but implacable scout made the cir-cuit of the dead, into whose senseless bosoms he thrust his long knife, with as much coolness as though they had been so many brute carcasses.
-- 'Them careless imps, the Mohawks, with their Tusca-rora and Onondaga brethren, have been here slaking their thirst,' he muttered, 'and the vagabonds have thrown away the gourd!This is the way with benefits, when they are be-stowed on such disremembering hounds!Here has the Lord laid his hand, in the midst of the howling wilderness, for their good, and raised a fountain of water from the bowels of the 'arth, that might laugh at the richest shop of apoth-ecary's ware in all the colonies; and see!the knaves have trodden in the clay, and deformed the cleanliness of the place, as though they were brute beasts, instead of human men.'
-- said the scout, erecting his tall person with an air of military pride; 'there are not many echoes among these hills that haven't rung with the crack of my rifle, nor is there the space of a square mile atwixt Horican and the river, that 'killdeer' hasn't dropped a living body on, be it an enemy or be it a brute beast.
-- Spurning the loathsome object with his foot, he turned from it with the same indifference he would have quitted a brute carcass.
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：
-- Her voice trembled a little, and I felt a brute even to hesitate.
-- Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would have been strange if the careless profligate, who was the butt of both, had been harassed by any such consideration; for his high opinion of his own merits and deserts rendered the project rather a laudable one than otherwise; and if he had been visited by so unwonted a guest as reflection, he would being a brute only in the gratification of his appetites have soothed his conscience with the plea that he did not mean to beat or kill his wife, and would therefore, after all said and done, be a very tolerable, average husband.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That brute of a lad has warmed me nicely.
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