ass是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 驴； 傻瓜， 蠢笨的人，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：
-- Or as some lazy ass that has had many a cudgel broken about his back, when he into a field begins eating the corn boys beat him but he is too many for them, and though they lay about with their sticks they cannot hurt him; still when he has had his fill they at last drive him from the field even so did the Trojans and their allies pursue great Ajax, ever smiting the middle of his shield with their darts.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I said just now that we, you and I, were the lion and the ass of Kryloff's fable, of course it is understood that I take the role of the ass.
-- But, to prove that this time I was speaking absolutely se-riously, and especially to prove this to the prince (for you, prince, have interested me exceedingly, and I swear to you that I am not quite such an ass as I like to appear sometimes, although I am rather an ass, I admit), and well, ladies and gentlemen, will you allow me to put just one more question to the prince, out of pure curiosity?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suddenly a man, in foreign garments: wonderfully real and distinct to look at: stood outside the window, with an axe stuck in his belt, and leading by the bridle an ass laden with wood.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Like that ass who ran into me this morning round a corner, with the ''Visible Man a-coming, sir!'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The silly ass who owns her, he's captain too, named Davies, he's lost his certificate, or something.
-- How jolly it all used to be!But I made a young ass of myself, played myself out before I was twenty-one.
-- But I must look up that ass of a cook, and see what he's done to your mutton.'
-- 'What an ass I was to mention it to you!I might have thought.
-- 'This silly ass of a world,' he said; 'what a muddle it all is!I haven't had any life.
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：
-- In other words, while he had implicit faith in the ability of Balaam's ass to speak, he was somewhat skepti-cal on the subject of a bear's singing; and yet he had been assured of the latter, on the testimony of his own exquisite organs.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That's just it; the murderer must have been there and bolted himself in; and they'd have caught him for a certain-ty if Koch had not been an ass and gone to look for the porter too.
-- 'Foo!what an ass you are sometimes!Last night's wine has not gone off yet芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The old ass has drunk himself into a state of dotage,' said 690Uriah, turning uglier than before, 'and it has been got from him byfraud!'
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was as the ass and the lap-dog; yet surely the gentle ass whose in-tentions were affectionate, although his manners were rude, deserved better treatment than blows and execration.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 22 Grimms' Fairy TalesTHE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS n honest farmer had once an ass that had been a faith-Aful servant to him a great many years, but was now growing old and every day more and more unfit for work.
-- The ass and the dog laid themselves down under a great tree, and the cat climbed up into the branches; while the cock, thinking that the higher he sat the safer he should be, flew 24 Grimms' Fairy Talesup to the very top of the tree, and then, according to his cus-tom, before he went to sleep, looked out on all sides of him to see that everything was well.
-- The ass placed himself upright on his hind legs, with his forefeet resting against the window; the dog got upon his back; the cat scrambled up to the dog's shoulders, and the cock flew up and sat upon the cat's head.
-- The ass brayed, the dog barked, the cat mewed, and the cock screamed; and then they all broke through the window at once, and came tumbling into the room, amongst the broken glass, with a most hideous clatter!The robbers, who had been not a little 25frightened by the opening concert, had now no doubt that some frightful hobgoblin had broken in upon them, and scampered away as fast as they could.
-- This frightened him dreadfully, and away he ran to the back door; but there the dog jumped up and bit him in the leg; and as he was crossing over the yard the ass kicked him; and the cock, who had been awakened by the noise, crowed with all his might.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- thought Mr. Harthouse, lazily; 'what an Ass you are!'
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：
-- They all looked at him as if the ass had spoken.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stubb saw him pause; and perhaps intending, not vainly, though, to evince his own unabated fortitude, and thus keep up a valiant place in his Captain's mind, he advanced, and eyeing the wreck exclaimed "The thistle the ass refused; it pricked his mouth too keenly, sir; ha!ha!"
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, I 'uz gwyne to spen' it, but I had a dream, en de dream tole me to give it to a nigger name' Balum Balum's Ass dey call him for short; he's one er dem chuckleheads, you know.
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