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 was a small, slim, clean-shaven, prim-faced man, flaxen-haired and lean-jawed, between thirty and forty years of age, dressed in a gray suit and wearing a straw hat.
-- In that impassive, colourless man, with his straw hat and his but-terfly-net, I seemed to see something terrible a creature of infinite patience and craft, with a smiling face and a mur-derous heart.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She made her sleep on straw in a shed, and hardly gave her food enough to support life.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fighting is a thing of which men soon surfeit, and when Jove, who is war's steward, weighs the up-shot, it may well prove that the straw which our sickles have reaped is far heavier than the grain.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Directly the first crate was, in accordance with his directions, carried into the parlour, the stranger flung himself upon it with extraordinary eagerness, and began to unpack it, scattering the straw with an utter disregard of Mrs. Hall's carpet.
-- When Mrs. Hall took his dinner in to him, he was already so absorbed in his work, pouring little drops out of the bottles into test-tubes, that he did not hear her until she had swept away the bulk of the straw and put the tray on the table, with some little emphasis perhaps, seeing the state that the floor was in.
-- She was about to complain of the straw on the floor when he anticipated her.
-- If the straw makes trouble put it down in the bill."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After him from the brake came a monstrous lout, a thing of horse and rhinoceros, chewing a straw as it came; then appeared the Swine-woman and two Wolf-women; then the Fox-bear witch, with her red eyes in her peaked red face, and then others, all hurrying eagerly.
-- Then came Moreau in a cluster of the Beast People, his wide-brimmed straw hat blown off, his revolver in hand, and his lank white hair streaming out.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are like those little nooks of still water, which border a rapid stream, where we may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbor, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current.
-- Buxom lasses, almost as antiquated as their mothers, excepting where a straw hat, a fine ribbon, or per-haps a white frock, gave symptoms of city innovation.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was dressed usually in a pink Mother Hubbard, and she wore all day long a large straw hat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Swiveller complied, and looking about him with a propitiatory smile, observed that last week was a fine week for the ducks, and this week was a fine week for the dust; he also observed that whilst standing by the post at the street-corner, he had observed a pig with a straw in his mouth issuing out of the tobacco-shop, from which appearance he augured that another fine week for the ducks was approaching, and that rain would certainly ensue.
-- Nell had scarcely settled herself on a little heap of straw in one corner, when she fell asleep, for the first time that day.
-- Although there were many people here, none of the best favoured or best clad, busily erecting tents and driving stakes in the ground, and hurrying to and fro with dusty feet and many a grumbled oath although there were tired children cradled on heaps of straw between the wheels of carts, crying themselves to sleep and poor lean horses and donkeys just turned loose, grazing among the men and women, and pots and kettles, and half-lighted fires, and ends of candles flaring and wasting in the air for all this, the child felt it an escape from the town and drew her breath more freely.
-- Certain guttural sounds, too, which from time to time ascended through the floor of the caravan, and a rustling of straw in the same direction, apprised her that the driver was couched upon the ground beneath, and gave her an additional feeling of security.
-- He carried in his pocket, too, a fire-box of mysterious and unknown construction; and as sure as ever Kit's mother closed her eyes, so surely whisk, rattle, fizz there was the single gentleman consulting his watch by a flame of fire, and letting the sparks fall down among the straw as if there were no such thing as a possibility of himself and Kit's mother being roasted alive before the boys could stop their horses.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While listening to him, Nekhludoff examined the low cot, with its straw mattress, the window, with its thick iron bars, the damp, plastered walls, the pitiful face and the figure of the unfortunate, mutilated peasant in bast shoes and prison coat, and he became sad; he would not believe that what this kind-hearted man told him was true.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't believe in the humanity I pretend to be part of, I don't care a straw for the social ideals I live by, I hate the dying organic form of social mankind so it can't be anything but trumpery, to work at education.
-- And I wouldn't give a straw for your female ego it's a rag doll."
-- The sick man caught at this straw instantly.
-- At moments it seemed to him he did not care a straw whether Ursula or Hermione or anybody else existed or did not exist.
-- She stood in the old yard of the inn, smelling of straw and stables and petrol.
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