neck是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 颈脖，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 neck was long and slender, and round the thick rim there was still an end of wire hanging, though eaten away with rust.
-- Little Robert flung himself on his neck in such tumultuous delight that he nearly threw the worthy secretary down, and made him say, "Rude petit bonhomme.
-- He can twist the neck of a horse with a single stroke of his paw.
-- From the pendant lobe of his ears hung earrings of green jade, and round his neck a quivering necklace of "pounamous," a kind of jade stone sacred among the New Zealanders.
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：
-- Then a long, agonized, writhing neck shot up-ward and a dreadful cry echoed over the moor.
-- 'He appears to have broken his neck by falling over these rocks.
-- There's the devilish cunning of it!If he were acting through a human agent we could get some evidence, but if we were to drag this great dog to the light of day it would not help us in putting a rope round the neck of its master.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought of asking you to draw the face of a criminal, one minute be-fore the fall of the guillotine, while the wretched man is still standing on the scaffold, preparatory to placing his neck on the block.'
-- There is one point that cannot be forgotten, round which everything else dances and turns about; and because of this point he cannot faint, and this lasts until the very final quarter of a second, when the wretched neck is on the block and the victim listens and waits and KNOWS that's the point, he KNOWS that he is just NOW about to die, and listens for the rasp of the iron over his head.
-- She wore a black woollen dress, with a black handkerchief round her neck and shoulders, and a white cap with black ribbons.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she marked the beautiful neck of the goddess, her lovely bosom, and sparkling eyes, she marvelled at her and said, 'Goddess, why do you thus beguile me?
-- He killed Astynous, and Hypeiron shepherd of his peo-ple, the one with a thrust of his spear, which struck him above the nipple, the other with a sword-cut on the col-lar-bone, that severed his shoulder from his neck and back.
-- He sprang upon them as a lion fastens on the neck of some cow or heifer when the herd is feeding in a coppice.
-- With this he went his way, and the black rim of hide that went round his shield beat against his neck and his ancles.
-- Hector threw a spear at Eioneus and struck him dead with a wound in the neck un- der the bronze rim of his helmet.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Footsteps approached, running heavily, the door was pushed open violently, and Marvel, weeping and dishevelled, his hat gone, the neck of his coat torn open, rushed in, made a convulsive turn, and attempted to shut the door.
-- He rubbed his eyes and felt his neck again.
-- My back had now become very stiff and sore, my tonsils were painful from the cabman's fingers, and the skin of my neck had been scratched by his nails; my feet hurt exceedingly and I was lame from a little cut on one foot.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Near by lay M'ling on his face and quite still, his neck bit-ten open and the upper part of the smashed brandy-bottle in his hand.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last and Mother Wolf's neck bristles lifted as the time came Father Wolf pushed 'Mowgli the Frog,' as they called him, into the center, where he sat laughing and play-ing with some pebbles that glistened in the moonlight.
-- But art thou sure, O my Ba-gheera' he slipped his arm around the splendid neck and looked deep into the big eyes 'art thou sure that all this is Shere Khan's doing?'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Take pity on a poor boy who is being chased by two Assass--" He did not finish, for two powerful hands grasped him by the neck and the same two horrible voices growled threateningly: "Now we have you!"
-- And they ran after me and I ran and ran, till at last they caught me and tied my neck with a rope and hanged me to a tree, saying, 'Tomorrow we'll come back for you and you'll be dead and your mouth will be open, and then we'll take the gold pieces that you have hidden under your tongue.'"
-- He slipped a dog collar around Pinocchio's neck and tightened it so that it would not come off.
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