skull是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 头盖骨， 颅骨，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had hardly expected so dolichocephal- ic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development.
-- 'I presume, sir,' said he at last, 'that it was not merely for the purpose of examining my skull that you have done me the honour to call here last night and again to-day?'
-- 'I presume, Doctor, that you could tell the skull of a ne-gro from that of an Esquimau?'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then away she flew, and Kay sat quite alone in the empty halls of ice that were miles long, and looked at the blocks of ice, and thought and thought till his skull was almost cracked.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in the morning he awoke with a crackling skull and a realization that he was going to face Leora and Madeline at lunch.
-- Hunziker was bald and business- like as to skull but tortoise-spectacled and sentimental of eye.
-- What hurts is to think of old Roger--so gay, so strong, real Skull and Bones--and to have this abrupt Outsider from the tall grass sitting in his chair, failing to appreciate his Pol Roger-- What Joyce ever saw in him!Though he does have nice eyes and such funny strong hands--" VI Joyce's busyness was on his nerves.
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：
-- he cried, 'can it be, can it be, that I shall re-ally take an axe, that I shall strike her on the head, split her skull open 芒聙娄 that I shall tread in the sticky warm blood, break the lock, steal and tremble; hide, all spattered in the blood 芒聙娄 with the axe芒聙娄.
-- Bending down and examining her again more closely, he saw clearly that the skull was broken and even battered in on one side.
-- The axe fell with the sharp edge just on the skull and split at one 120 Crime and Punishmentblow all the top of the head.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Prissy had never been more than a mile away from Twelve Oaks or Tara before, and the trip onthe train plus her elevation to nurse was almost more than the brain in her little black skull could bear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "At Epsom races, a matter of over twenty years ago, I got acquainted wi' a man whose skull I'd crack wi' this poker, like the claw of a lobster, if I'd got it on this hob.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it was even a greater excitement when, darting wildly over this mass of organic dust, he caught up a naked skull and addressed me in a quivering voice: "Harry, my boy--Harry--this is a human head!"
-- After a while, however, we raised up the body to which the skull belonged.
-- The skull of this fossil being is a perfect ovoid without any remarkable or prominent development of the cheekbones, and without any projection of the jaw.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I twigged it, knew it; had had the gift, might readily have prophesied it for when I clapped my eye upon his skull I saw it.
-- The casket of the skull is broken into with an axe, and the two plump, whitish lobes being withdrawn (precisely resembling two large puddings), they are then mixed with flour, and cooked into a most delectable mess, in flavor somewhat resembling calves' head, which is quite a dish among some epicures; and every one knows that some young bucks among the epicures, by continually dining upon calves' brains, by and by get to have a little brains of their own, so as to be able to tell a calf's head from their own heads; which, indeed, requires uncommon discrimination.
-- In the full-grown creature the skull will measure at least twenty feet in length.
-- Unhinge the lower jaw, and the side view of this skull is as the side of a moderately inclined plane resting throughout on a level base.
-- At the high end the skull forms a crater to bed that part of the mass; while under the long floor of this crater in another cavity seldom exceeding ten inches in length and as many in depth reposes the mere handful of this monster's brain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Gamfield growled a fierce imprecation on the donkey generally, but more particularly on his eyes; and, running after him, bestowed a blow on his head, which would inevitably have beaten in any skull but a donkey's.
-- "I was so struck all of a heap, that you might have fractured my skull with a toothpick," says the poor man; "but we're sure to have him; for between ten and eleven o'clock at night he passed again."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Till I ASK you!Well, I never see the beat of it in my born days!I lay you'll be the Methusalem-num- skull of creation before ever I ask you or the likes of you.'
-- Next night we stuck a picture, which Tom drawed in blood, of a skull and crossbones on the front door; and next night another one of a coffin on the back door.
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