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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The scent ofgeranium leaf, at this day, strikes me with a half-comical, half-serious wonder as to what change has come over me in a moment;and then I see a straw hat and blue ribbons, and a quantity of curls,and a little black dog being held up, in two slender arms, against abank of blossoms and bright leaves.
-- 'Gentlemen,' returned Mr. Micawber, 'do with me as you will!I ama straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in alldirections by the elephants- I beg your pardon; I should have saidthe elements.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Detached hurdles thatched with straw were stuck into the ground at various scattered points, amid and under which the whitish forms of his meek ewes moved and rustled.
-- The corn stood on stone staddles, and between these, tongues of yellow hue from the burning straw licked and darted playfully.
-- Bathsheba demurely regarded a contemptible straw lying upon the ground, in a way which suggested less ovine criticism than womanly embarrassment.
-- She had dressed the hive with herbs and honey, fetched a ladder, brush, and crook, made herself impregnable with armour of leather gloves, straw hat, and large gauze veil once green but now faded to snuff colour and ascended a dozen rungs of the ladder.
-- At her third ascent the rick suddenly brightened with the brazen glare of shining majolica every knot in every straw was visible.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She procured plain work; she plaited straw and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life.
-- We entered the gloomy prison chamber and beheld Jus-tine sitting on some straw at the farther end; her hands were manacled, and her head rested on her knees.
-- Then, overcome by fatigue, I lay down among some straw and fell asleep.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This she knew would be a straw that would break the backs of Pittypat and Melanie.
-- Scarlett caught up her wide straw bonnet from the console table and jammed it on her head.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Following the wall of the jail, I found the roadway covered with straw to deaden the noise of passing vehicles; and from this, and from the quantity of people standing about smelling strongly of spirits and beer, I inferred that the trials were on.
-- I had previously sought in my pockets for the letter, that I might refer to it again; but I could not find it, and was uneasy to think that it must have been dropped in the straw of the coach.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The donkey laid himself down upon a heap of straw in the yard, the dog stretched himself upon a mat be-hind the door, the cat rolled herself up on the hearth before the warm ashes, and the cock perched upon a beam on the top of the house; and, as they were all rather tired with their journey, they soon fell asleep.
-- Then the straw began and said: 'Dear friends, from whence do you come here?'
-- The straw hit on a good idea, and said: 'I will lay myself straight across, and then you can walk over on me as on a bridge.'
-- The straw there-fore stretched itself from one bank to the other, and the coal, who was of an impetuous disposition, tripped quite boldly on to the newly-built bridge.
-- But as the mice were going over, the straw slipped away and fell into the water, and the six mice all fell in and were drowned.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An-other feather in the family cap!She didn't care a straw about his books, but why should she?
-- But still one little trio was pattering about on tiny feet, alert drab mites, under the straw shelter, refusing to be called in by the anxious mother.
-- The chicks had nearly all gone under the mother-hens, only one or two last adventurous ones still dibbed about in the dryness under the straw roof shelter.
-- It was all tidy, the corn put in the bin, the blankets fold-ed on the shelf, the straw neat in a corner; a new bundle of straw.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rain, carried aslant by flaws of wind, blackened that side of the central building which he had visited last night, but left a narrow dry trough under the lee of the wall, where he walked up and down among the waits of straw and dust and paper, the waste droppings of the pump, and the stray leaves of yesterday's greens.
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