thicken是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 使变厚(或粗、 密)，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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was well he did so, for Quilp, who was nearly mad with rage, pursued them to the neighbouring lane, and might have prolonged the chase but for the dense mist which obscured them from his view and appeared to thicken every moment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, when the darkness and stillness had seemed for hours to thicken one another, she heard the bell at the gate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That perils had thickened about him fast, 360 A tale of two citiesand might thicken faster and faster yet, he of course knew now.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a nibble of the tough old bird foreach, an adequate amount of dressing made of corn meal and seasoned with onions, a bowl of dried peas, and plenty ofrice and gravy, the latter somewhat watery, for there was no flour with which to thicken it For dessert, there was asweet potato pie followed by Rhett's bonbons, and when Rhett produced real Havana cigars for the gentlemen to enjoyover their glass of blackberry wine, everyone agreed it was indeed a Lucullan banquet When the gentlemen joined the ladies on the front porch, the talk turned to war.
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