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：
-- He has been excavating a barrow at Long Down, and has got a prehistoric skull which fills him with great joy.
-- If he would confine his energies to this all would be well, but there are rumours that he intends to prosecute Dr. Mortimer for opening a grave without the consent of the next-of-kin, because he dug up the Neolithic skull in the barrow on Long Down.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How-ever, it would send your skull flying well enough if you pressed the muzzle of it against your temple.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The skull rang loud, and the animal-man blundered into me, thrust me back with its hands, and went staggering past me to fall headlong upon the sand with its face in the water; and there it lay still.
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：
-- But the conflict was soon decided; the tomahawk of Heyward and the ri-fle of Hawkeye descended on the skull of the Huron, at the same moment that the knife of Uncas reached his heart.
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：
-- Mr. Van Busche Taylor was a very thin man with a large, bald head, bony and shining; and under the great dome of his skull his face, yellow, with deep lines in it, looked very small.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This poetic figure, which Kit took to be in a special allusion to his own checked waistcoat, quite overcame him; Mr Brass's voice and manner added not a little to its effect, for he discoursed with all the mild austerity of a hermit, and wanted but a cord round the waist of his rusty surtout, and a skull on the chimney-piece, to be completely set up in that line of business.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The skin covering of the skull easily detached, and no hemorrhage was noticeable.
-- The skull bones were of average thickness and uninjured.
-- On the hard membrane of the skull there were two small discolored spots of about the size of four centimetres, the membrane itself being of a dull gray color, et cetera, et cetera, to the end of thirteen more clauses.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.
-- The skull and the upper bones lay beside it in the thick dust, and in one place, where rain-water had dropped through a leak in the roof, the thing itself had been worn away.
-- I had judged the strength of the lever pretty correctly, for it snapped after a minute's strain, and I rejoined her with a mace in my hand more than sufficient, I judged, for any Morlock skull I might encounter.
-- As it slipped from my hand, I had to butt in the dark with my head I could hear the Morlock's skull ring to recover it.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He lingered all day, breathing loudly like the old buccaneer at home in his apoplectic fit, but the bones of his chest had been crushed by the blow and his skull fractured in falling, and some time in the following night, without sign or sound, he went to his Maker.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It all takes place in your head, under that skull of yours.
-- You want it all in that loathsome little skull of yours, that ought to be cracked like a nut.
-- If one cracked your skull perhaps one might get a spontaneous, passionate woman out of you, with real sensuality.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had it been dark, I daresay he would have tried to remedy the mistake by smashing Hareton's skull on the steps; but, we witnessed his salvation; and I was presently below with my precious charge pressed to my heart.
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