sword是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 剑， 刀； 武力，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gird-ed round its middle was an antique scabbard; but no sword was in it, and the ancient sheath was eaten up with rust.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, I tracked the brother here, and last night climbed in a common dog, but sword in hand. Where is the loft window?
-- Let him break into as many pieces as he will, the sword that he stained with my common blood; he drew to defend him-self thrust at me with all his skill for his life.'
-- In another place, lay an old sword that seemed to have been a soldier's.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And feeling satisfied that she was alone, and wanting to take her by surprise, since he had not promised to be there today, and she would certainly not expect him to come before the races, he walked, holding his sword and stepping cautiously over the sandy path, bordered with flowers, to the terrace that looked out upon the garden.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His haughty self was like a robber baron fallen into the hands of rebellious slaves, stooped under a filthy load, the proud eye rheumy and patient with despair, the sword hand chopped off, obscene flies crawling across the gnawed wrist.
-- With him Martin watched the heroes of yellow fever, Reed, Agramonte, Carroll, and Lazear; with him he landed in a Mexican port stilled with the plague and famished beneath the virulent sun; with him rode up the mountain trails to a hill town rotted with typhus; with him, in crawling August, when babies were parched skeletons, fought an ice trust beneath the gilt and blunted sword of the law.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Give me back my wife,give me back my family, substitute Micawber for the petty wretchwho walks about in the boots at present on my feet, and call uponme to swallow a sword to-morrow, and I'll do it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, I know; and I have no sword here; but I think I could get one by the evening.
-- He flourished the sword by way of introduction number two, and the next thing of which she was conscious was that the point and blade of the sword were darting with a gleam towards her left side, just above her hip; then of their reappearance on her right side, emerging as it were from between her ribs, having apparently passed through her body.
-- The sword passed behind you.
-- "Is the sword very sharp?"
-- It may safely be asserted with respect to the closeness of his cuts, that had it been possible for the edge of the sword to leave in the air a permanent substance wherever it flew past, the space left untouched would have been almost a mould of Bathsheba's figure.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are men who feel more at their ease when they stand up before another man who threatens their lives with sword or pistol than in the presence of a woman who, after two hours of lamentations and reproaches, falls into a dead swoon and requires salts.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hear him not; call on the names of William, Justine, Clerval, Elizabeth, my father, and of the wretched Victor, and thrust your sword into his heart.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My dear, that didn't hurt a bit!I wear no uniform and wave no sword and the fortunes of the Confederacy meannothing at all to me.
-- She knewMelanie wanted the daguerreotype of Charles which hung on the wall below his sword and pistol.
-- "Oh, all right," said Scarlett and, after she had lighted Rhett's careful way down the steps, she went back andunhooked the sword and pistol belts.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was always followed by Collins's Ode on the Passions, wherein I particularly venerated Mr. Wopsle as Revenge throwing his blood-stained sword in thunder down, and taking the War-denouncing trumpet with a withering look.
-- That, rather late in the evening Mr. Wopsle gave us Collins's ode, and threw his bloodstained sword in thunder down, with such effect, that a waiter came in and said, "The Commercials underneath sent up their compliments, and it wasn't the Tumblers' Arms."
-- There were not so many papers about, as I should have expected to see; and there were some odd objects about, that I should not have expected to see,--such as an old rusty pistol, a sword in a scabbard, several strange-looking boxes and packages, and two dreadful casts on a shelf, of faces peculiarly swollen, and twitchy about the nose.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wolf and the wild boar were first on the ground; and when they espied their enemies coming, and saw the cat's long tail standing straight in the air, they thought she was carrying a sword for Sultan to fight with; and every time she limped, they thought she was picking up a stone to throw at them; so they said they should not like this way of fighting, and the boar lay down behind a bush, and the wolf jumped up into a tree.
-- He drew out his sword and gave each of them a couple of thrusts in the breast, and then went out to the horsemen and said: 'The work is done; I have finished both of them off, but it was hard work!They tore up trees in their sore need, and defended themselves with them, but all that is to no purpose when a man like myself comes, who can kill seven at one blow.'
-- In another room he saw on a table a sword and a loaf of bread, which he also took.
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