straw是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 稻草， 麦杆； 吸管，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：
-- The obscurity was so difficult to penetrate that Mr. Lorry, picking his way over the well-worn Turkey carpet, supposed Miss Manette to be, for the moment, in some adjacent room, until, having got past the two tall candles, he saw standing to receive him by the table between them and the fire, a young lady of not more than seventeen, in a riding-cloak, and still holding her straw travellinghat by its ribbon in her hand.
-- Hunger was pushed out of the tall houses, in the wretched clothing that hung upon poles and lines; Hunger was patched into them with straw and rag and wood and paper; Hunger was repeated in every frag-ment of the small modicum of firewood that the man sawed off; Hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys, and started up from the filthy street that had no offal, among its refuse, of anything to eat.
-- His stock consisted of a wooden stool, made out of a broken-backed chair cut down, which stool, young Jerry, walking at his father's side, carried every morning to beneath the bank-ing-house window that was nearest Temple Bar: where, with the addition of the first handful of straw that could be gleaned from any passing vehicle to keep the cold and wet from the odd-job-man's feet, it formed the encampment for the day.
-- Having thus given his parent God speed, young Jerry seated himself on the stool, entered on his reversionary interest in the straw his father had been chewing, and cogi-tated.
-- With his straw in his mouth, Mr. Cruncher sat watching the two streams, like the heathen rustic who has for sev-eral centuries been on duty watching one stream saving that Jerry had no expectation of their ever running dry.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had something to eat and drink; and then went into a corner, where straw and carpets were lying.
-- Her little feet she had drawn close up to her, but she grew colder and colder, and to go home she did not venture, for she had not sold any matches and could not bring a farthing of money: from her father she would certainly get blows, and at home it was cold too, for above her she had only the roof, through which the wind whistled, even though the largest cracks were stopped up with straw and rags.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That I've been in love with a man who didn't care a straw for me, And that I'm dying of love for him?
-- The bailiff, beaming all over, like everyone that day, in a sheepskin bordered with astrachan, came out of the barn, twisting a bit of straw in his hands.
-- In the horse-box stood a dark bay mare, with a muzzle on, picking at the fresh straw with her hoofs.
-- This man lifted his straw hat, showed his scanty curly hair and high forehead, painfully reddened by the pressure of the hat.
-- They even rigged up a bathing-shed of straw hurdles.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for the wonders of Bombay its famous city hall, its splendid library, its forts and docks, its bazaars, mosques, synagogues, its Armenian churches, and the noble pagoda on Malabar Hill, with its two polygonal towers he cared not a straw to see them.
-- He did not fail to observe the curious equipages carriages and palanquins, barrows supplied with sails, and litters made of bamboo; nor the women whom he thought not especially handsome who took little steps with their little feet, whereon they wore canvas shoes, straw sandals, and clogs of worked wood, and who displayed tight-looking eyes, flat chests, teeth fashionably blackened, and gowns crossed with silken scarfs, tied in an enormous knot behind an ornament which the modern Parisian ladies seem to have borrowed from the dames of Japan.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sat at the back, fanning with his straw hat, disliking the man with side- whiskers who shared the row with him, disapproving of Gustaf Sondelius, and as to himself having no good opinions whatever.
-- A dozen of them drove out in a bob-sled filled with straw and blue woolly robes.
-- For four days he tramped, swam in cold brooks, slept under trees or in straw stacks, and came back (but by day) with enough reserve of energy to support him till his experiment should have turned from overwhelming glory into sane and entertaining routine.
-- In the haze of a lantern held by a steward at the foot of the steps, Martin could see a smart covered launch, manned by darky sailors in naval uniform and glazed black straw hats with ribbons, and commanded by a Scotch-looking man with some sort of a peaked uniform cap over a civilian jacket.
-- They shook hands, they coughed gruffly, and talked of straw hats.
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：
-- She was dressed up in a crinoline, a man-tle and a straw hat with a flame-coloured feather in it, all very old and shabby.
-- She forgot her fourth-hand, gaudy silk dress, so unseemly here with its ridiculous long train, and her im-mense crinoline that filled up the whole doorway, and her light-coloured shoes, and the parasol she brought with her, though it was no use at night, and the absurd round straw hat with its flaring flame-coloured feather.
-- But she won't care a straw whether it's you or I, so long as somebody sits beside her, sighing芒聙娄.
-- Katerina Ivanovna in her old dress with the green shawl, wearing a torn straw hat, crushed in a hid-eous way on one side, was really frantic.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a defiant manner about this young man, andparticularly about the way in which he chewed straw as he spoketo me, that I did not much like; as the bargain was made, however,I took him upstairs to the room I was leaving, and we brought thebox down, and put it on his cart.
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