barrier是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 栅栏， 屏障； 障碍(物)，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The barrier of fire just raised by Thalcave had redoubled their anger, though it had cut off their approach.
-- As long as the powder lasted and the barrier of fire burned on, there was no fear of being overmastered.
-- he added as the Indian that moment leveled two enormous beasts who endeavored to leap across the barrier of flames.
-- Thaouka pranced up, and reared himself bolt upright on his hind legs, and made a bound over the barrier of fire, while a clear, young voice called out:"God save you, my lord."
-- CHAPTER XV SUSPICIOUS OCCURRENCESAN immense barrier lay across the route to the southeast.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He rushed across the plain like a winter torrent that has burst its barrier in full flood; no dykes, no walls of fruitful vineyards can embank it when it is swollen with rain from heaven, but in a moment it comes tearing onward, and lays many a field waste that many a strong man's hand has reclaimed even so were the dense phalanxes of the Trojans driven in rout by the son of Tydeus, and many though they were, they dared not abide his onslaught.
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：
-- They complied without hesitation, though many a fearful and anxious glance was thrown behind them, toward the thickening gloom, which now lay like a dark barrier along the margin of the stream.
-- 'Nature has made an impenetrable barrier on this side,' he continued, pointing down the perpendicular declivity into the dark current before he dropped the blanket; 'and as you know that good men and true are on guard in front I see no reason why the advice of our honest host should be disregarded.
-- Grown desperate by his situation, he drew nigh the slight barrier which separated him only by a few feet from his re-lentless pursuers, and placing his face to the casual opening, he even looked out with a sort of desperate indifference, on their movements.
-- The clamorous noises again rushed down the island; and before Duncan had time to recover from the shock, his fee-ble barrier of brush was scattered to the winds, the cavern was entered at both its extremities, and he and his compan-ions were dragged from their shelter and borne into the day, where they stood surrounded by the whole band of the tri-umphant Hurons.
-- Such memorials of the passage and struggles of man are yet frequent throughout the broad barrier of wilderness which once separated the hostile provinces, and form a species of ruins that are intimate-ly associated with the recollections of colonial history, and which are in appropriate keeping with the gloomy charac-ter of the surrounding scenery.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The night being warm, there was a large screen drawn across the room, for a barrier against the heat of the fire.
-- The windows broken, the rusty sashes rattling in their frames, the deserted house a dull barrier dividing the glaring lights and bustle of the street into two long lines, and standing in the midst, cold, dark, and empty presented a cheerless spectacle which mingled harshly with the bright prospects the boy had been building up for its late inmates, and came like a disappointment or misfortune.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the 10th of February, 1828, the Astrolabe appeared off Tikopia, and took as guide and interpreter a deserter found on the island; made his way to Vanikoro, sighted it on the 12th inst., lay among the reefs until the 14th, and not until the 20th did he cast anchor within the barrier in the harbour of Vanou.
-- "I will add," I continued, "that a similar barrier exists between Gibraltar and Ceuta, which in geological times formed the entire Mediterranean."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He touched the worsted muffling of her hand that was nothing; if his mother had been sheathed in brass there would have been no new barrier between them and followed the old man and woman down-stairs.
-- It was evidently impracticable to pass the barrier of that reply.
-- It was exactly the same No as before, and put another barrier up.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Both felt it, and for a minute looked at one another as if that invisible barrier cast a little shadow over them.
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