stray是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 迷路a. 迷路的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a consequence, country airs circu-lated in Soho with vigorous freedom, instead of languishing into the parish like stray paupers without a settlement; and there was many a good south wall, not far off, on which the peaches ripened in their season.
-- Occa-sionally, a stray workman putting his coat on, traversed the hall, or a stranger peered about there, or a distant clink was heard across the courtyard, or a thump from the golden gi-ant.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every person in the house felt that there was so sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys.
-- Only rarely he suffered from an unsatisfied desire to communicate his stray ideas to someone besides Agafea Mihalovna.
-- Vronsky patted her strong neck, straightened over her sharp withers a stray lock of her mane that had fallen on the other side, and moved his face near her dilated nostrils, transparent as a bat's wing.
-- With his habitual control over his thoughts, though he thought all this about his wife, he did not let his thoughts stray further in regard to her.
-- taken a stray swarm, Fomitch?"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he found that it was impossible to define his work, except that he was to do a little of everything that Pickerbaugh, the press, or any stray citizen of Nautilus might think of.
-- When Leora had made complaint, he would be forcibly kind to all sorts of alarmed stray beggars for a day or two, then drift back into his absorption.
-- He sat on the edge of his cot, in the constricted and airless room, his hair ruffled, his eyes blotched with red, a stray alley kitten, which he esteemed his only friend, asleep on his pillow.
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：
-- Nastasya, the cook and only servant, was rather pleased at the lodger's mood and had entirely given up sweeping and doing his room, only once a week or so she would stray into his room with a broom.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I look at the sunlight coming in at theopen door through the porch, and there I see a stray sheep- I don'tmean a sinner, but mutton- half making up his mind to come intothe church.
-- Glancing uppresently through her stray curls, and seeing that we were alllooking at her still (I am sure I, for one, could have looked at herfor hours), she ran away, and kept away till it was nearly bedtime.
-- Iwent, accompanied by Mr. Wickfield, to the scene of my futurestudies- a grave building in a courtyard, with a learned air about itthat seemed very well suited to the stray rooks and jackdaws whocame down from the cathedral towers to walk with a clerklybearing on the grass-plot- and was introduced to my new master,Doctor Strong.
-- As he walked up and down that part of the courtyard whichwas at the side of the house, with the stray rooks and jackdawslooking after him with their heads cocked slyly, as if they knewhow much more knowing they were in worldly affairs than he, ifany sort of vagabond could only get near enough to his creakingshoes to attract his attention to one sentence of a tale of distress,that vagabond was made for the next two days.
-- So we got on, until she was able tosmile, and then to laugh, and then to sit up, half-ashamed; whilePeggotty recalled her stray ringlets, dried her eyes, and made herneat again, lest her uncle should wonder, when she got home, whyhis darling had been crying.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Harriet, tempted by every thing and swayed by half a word, was always very long at a purchase; and while she was still hanging over muslins and changing her mind, Emma went to the door for amusement. Much could not be hoped from the traffic of even the busiest part of Highbury; Mr. Perry walking hastily by, Mr. William Cox letting himself in at the office-door, Mr. Cole's carriage-horses returning from exercise, or a stray letter-boy on an obstinate mule, were the liveliest objects she could presume to expect; and when her eyes fell only on the butcher with his tray, a tidy old woman 282 Emmatravelling homewards from shop with her full basket, two curs quarrelling over a dirty bone, and a string of dawdling children round the baker's little bow-window eyeing the gin-gerbread, she knew she had no reason to complain, and was amused enough; quite enough still to stand at the door.
-- The quietness of the game made it particularly eligible for Mr. Woodhouse, who had often been distressed by the more animated sort, which Mr. Weston had occasionally introduced, and who now sat happily occupied in lamenting, with tender mel-ancholy, over the departure of the 'poor little boys,' or in fondly pointing out, as he took up any stray letter near him, how beautifully Emma had written it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The young woman came regularly to milk the healthy cow or to attend to the sick one, but never allowed her vision to stray in the direction of Oak's person.
-- "Now I think I have done with you," said Bathsheba, closing the book and shaking back a stray twine of hair.
-- Bathsheba then began, with some awkwardness, allowing her thoughts to stray occasionally from her story to attend to the shears, which required a little nicety in sharpening.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Eugene, in the blind desperation that drives a young man to plunge deeper and deeper into an abyss, as if he might hope to find a fortunate issue in its lowest depths, nodded in reply to the driver's signal, and stepped into the cab; a few stray petals of orange blossom and scraps of wire bore witness to its recent occupation by a wedding party.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scattered wits take a long time picking up; and often before I had got them well together, they would be dispersed in all directions by one stray thought, that perhaps after all Miss Havisham was going to make my fortune when my time was out.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For I have already told the reader how much I was pestered by these odious animals, upon my first arrival; and I afterwards failed very narrowly, three or four times, of falling into their clutches, when I happened to stray at any distance without my hanger.
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