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 grazed his cattle on these slopes, and he learned to dig for tin when the bronze sword began to supersede the stone axe.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You quarrelled about the wounded pigeon, and Adelaida was put in the corner, and stood there with her helmet and sword and all.'
-- And so the thing has gone on, only that to the sword they have added lying, intrigue, deceit, fanaticism, superstition, swindling; they have played fast and loose with the most sacred and sincere feelings of men; they have exchanged everything everything for money, for base earthly POW-ER!And is this not the teaching of Anti-Christ?
-- 'But let these thirsty Russian souls find, like Columbus' discoverers, a new world; let them find the Russian world, let them search and discover all the gold and treasure that lies hid in the bosom of their own land!Show them the res-titution of lost humanity, in the future, by Russian thought alone, and by means of the God and of the Christ of our Russian faith, and you will see how mighty and just and wise and good a giant will rise up before the eyes of the astonished and frightened world; astonished because they expect nothing but the sword from us, because they think they will get nothing out of us but barbarism.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While he was thus in two minds, and was drawing his mighty sword from its scab-bard, Minerva came down from heaven (for Juno had sent her in the love she bore to them both), and seized the son of Peleus by his yellow hair, visible to him alone, for of the others no man could see her.
-- He bound his sandals on to his comely feet, and slung his silver-studded sword about his shoulders; then he took the imperish-able staff of his father, and sallied forth to the ships of the Achaeans.
-- Grant that my sword may pierce the shirt of Hector about his heart, and that full many of his comrades may bite the dust as they fall dying round him.'
-- First he greaved his legs with greaves of good make and fitted with ancle-clasps of silver; after this he donned the cuirass of his brother Lyc-aon, and fitted it to his own body; he hung his silver-studded sword of bronze about his shoulders, and then his mighty shield.
-- Then the son of Atreus drew his sword, and drove at the projecting part of his helmet, but the sword fell shivered in three or four pieces from his hand, and he cried, looking towards Heaven, 'Father Jove, of all gods thou art the most despiteful; I made sure of my revenge, but the sword has broken in my hand, my spear has been hurled in vain, and I have not killed him.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a min-ute it seemed as though he were going to draw his sword and slash his way out through the English men and women in the carriages at the back.
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：
-- His slight sword was snapped in the first encounter.
-- Nor was the sword of death stayed until cupid-ity got the mastery of revenge.
-- Now, I have journeyed far, and sojourned much in good and evil with the maiden ye seek; and, though not a man of war, with my loins girded and my sword sharpened, yet would I gladly strike a blow in her behalf.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus, while the busy dame bustled about the house, or plied her spinning-wheel at one end of the piazza, honest Balt would sit smoking his evening pipe at the other, watching the achievements of a little wooden warrior, who, armed with a sword in each hand, was most valiantly fighting the wind on the pinnacle of the barn.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Is it Justice with the bandage off her eyes, and without the sword and scales?
-- But night-time in this dreadful spot! night, when the smoke was changed to fire; when every chimney spirited up its flame; and places, that had been dark vaults all day, now shone red-hot, with figures moving to and fro within their blazing jaws, and calling to one another with hoarse cries night, when the noise of every strange machine was aggravated by the darkness; when the people near them looked wilder and more savage; when bands of unemployed labourers paraded the roads, or clustered by torch-light round their leaders, who told them, in stern language, of their wrongs, and urged them on to frightful cries and threats; when maddened men, armed with sword and firebrand, spurning the tears and prayers of women who would restrain them, rushed forth on errands of terror and destruction, to work no ruin half so surely as their own night, when carts came rumbling by, filled with rude coffins (for contagious disease and death had been busy with the living crops); when orphans cried, and distracted women shrieked and followed in their wake night, when some called for bread, and some for drink to drown their cares, and some with tears, and some with staggering feet, and some with bloodshot eyes, went brooding home night, which, unlike the night that Heaven sends on earth, brought with it no peace, nor quiet, nor signs of blessed sleep who shall tell the terrors of the night to the young wandering child!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as the door closed behind them a gendarme, with drawn sword resting on his shoulder, placed himself in front of it.
-- The gendarme sheathed his sword and stood aside.
-- Missy frowned angrily, shrugged her shoulders, and turned to an elegant officer, who took from her hands the empty teacup and valiantly carried it to another table, his sword striking every object it encountered.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took his vorpal sword in hand:Long time the manxome foe he sought So rested he by the Tumtum tree,And stood awhile in thought.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There a Lascar came alongside in a canoe, sold him the handle of a sword in silver that bore the print of characters engraved on the hilt.
-- I saw there in the midst of this fire that burns not the swift and elegant porpoise (the indefatigable clown of the ocean), and some swordfish ten feet long, those prophetic heralds of the hurricane whose formidable sword would now and then strike the glass of the saloon.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, next they got out a couple of long swords that the duke made out of oak laths, and begun to practice the sword fight the duke called himself Richard III.
-- The first chance we got the duke he had some show- bills printed; and after that, for two or three days as we floated along, the raft was a most uncommon lively place, for there warn't nothing but sword fighting and rehearsing as the duke called it going on all the time.
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