heap是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vt. 堆, 一堆, 堆积; 许多, 大量; 装载，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ewes lay dead and dying at its foot a heap of two hundred mangled carcasses, representing in their condition just now at least two hundred more.
-- From this she poured a small heap of coin.
-- In the ashpit was a heap of potatoes roasting, and a boiling pipkin of charred bread, called "coffee", for the benefit of whomsoever should call, for Warren's was a sort of clubhouse, used as an alternative to the inn.
-- Henery shook his head, and smiled one of the bitter smiles, dragging all the flesh of his forehead into a corrugated heap in the centre.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'd heap rather go to a war than goto Europe."
-- Ef y'all doan tek me ter Mist' Wynder's, Ah'll lay out in de woods all night an'maybe de patterollers git me, 'cause Ah heap ruther de patterollers git me dan Miss Beetriss when she in a state."
-- You kick up such a heap of dust that we're choking," said Scarlett,who felt that she could endure conversation no longer.
-- They takes a heap of bathin'," explainedDilcey, propping the gourd on the table between medicine bottles and a glass.
-- Oh, Ellen She trudged on down thedusty hill, passing the heap of ashes and the stumpy chimney where the Slattery house had stood, and she wishedsavagely that the whole tribe of them had been part of the ashes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "On this day of the year, long before you were born, this heap of decay," stabbing with her crutched stick at the pile of cobwebs on the table, but not touching it, "was brought here.
-- Each of us would then refer to a confused heap of papers at his side, which had been thrown into drawers, worn into holes in pockets, half burnt in lighting candles, stuck for weeks into the looking-glass, and otherwise damaged.
-- "Mr. Herbert," said Wemmick, "after being all of a heap for half an hour, struck out a plan.
-- It's altogether out of all your beats, and is well away from the usual heap of streets great and small.
-- That I got them off, closed with her, threw her down, and got them over her; that I dragged the great cloth from the table for the same purpose, and with it dragged down the heap of rottenness in the midst, and all the ugly things that sheltered there; that we were on the ground struggling like desperate enemies, and that the closer I covered her, the more wildly she shrieked and tried to free herself,--that this occurred I knew through the result, but not through anything I felt, or thought, or knew I did.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The donkey laid himself down upon a heap of straw in the yard, the dog stretched himself upon a mat be-hind the door, the cat rolled herself up on the hearth before the warm ashes, and the cock perched upon a beam on the top of the house; and, as they were all rather tired with their journey, they soon fell asleep.
-- Then she carefully gathered the apples together in a heap and walked on again.
-- Then he led her to a chamber in his palace where there was a great heap of straw, and gave her a spinning-wheel, and said, 'All this must be spun into gold before morning, as you love your life.'
-- Round went the wheel again to the old song, and the manikin once more spun the heap into gold.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In one of these cells were several globes, or balls, of a most ponderous metal, about the bigness of our heads, and requiring a strong hand to lift them: the other cell con-tained a heap of certain black grains, but of no great bulk or weight, for we could hold above fifty of them in the palms of our hands.
-- The king's palace is no regular edifice, but a heap of buildings, about seven miles round: the chief rooms are generally two hundred and forty feet high, and broad and long in proportion.
-- He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting 'it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, mas-sacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, 163madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce.'
-- In hopes to ingratiate myself further into his majesty's favour, I told him of 'an invention, discovered between three and four hundred years ago, to make a certain powder, into a heap of which, the smallest spark of fire falling, would kindle the whole in a moment, although it were as big as a moun-tain, and make it all fly up in the air together, with a noise and agitation greater than thunder.
-- That he had once, by way of ex-periment, privately removed a heap of these stones from the place where one of his Yahoos had buried it; whereupon the sordid animal, missing his treasure, by his loud lamenting brought the whole herd to the place, there miserably howled, then fell to biting and tearing the rest, began to pine away, would neither eat, nor sleep, nor work, till he ordered a ser-vant privately to convey the stones into the same hole, and hide them as before; which, when his Yahoo had found, he presently recovered his spirits and good humour, but took good care to remove them to a better hiding place, and has ever since been a very serviceable brute.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So in her bosom even now; the strongest qualities she possessed, long turned upon themselves, became a heap of obduracy, that rose against a friend.
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