key是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 钥匙； 答案； 关键； 键a. 主要的， 关键的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then let any man explain to me, if he can, how it happened that Scrooge, having his key in the lock of the door, saw in the knocker, without its under-going any intermediate process of change not a knocker, but Marley's face.
-- But he put his hand upon the key he had relinquished, turned it sturdily, walked in, and lighted his candle.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the same intention, he drew the key across 52 A tale of two citiesit, three or four times, before he put it clumsily into the lock, and turned it as heavily as he could.
-- Defarge drew out the key, closed the door, locked it on the inside, took out the key again, and held it in his hand.
-- Towards that small and ghostly hour, he rose up from his chair, took a key out of his pocket, opened a locked cupboard, and brought forth a sack, a crowbar of convenient size, a rope and chain, and other fishing tackle of that nature.
-- The turnkey stopped at a low door, put a key in a clashing lock, swung the door slowly open, and said, as they all bent their heads and passed in: 'One hundred and five, North Tower!'
-- The key was put in the lock, and turned.
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：
-- My sweetheart knows a little back stair that leads to the bedchamber, and she knows where she can get the key of it.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But perhaps the key may yet be found," thought Alexey Alexandrovitch.
-- "Please step in," he said, trying to look indifferent, and going into the passage he took a key out of his pocket and opened the door.
-- He was nine years old; he was a child; but he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and without the key of love he let no one into his soul.
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：
-- And there's one key there, three times as big as all the others, with deep notches; that can't be the key of the chest of drawers 芒聙娄 then there must be some other chest or strong-box 芒聙娄 that's worth knowing.
-- Well, then, sir' (Marmeladov suddenly gave a sort of start, raised his head and gazed intently at his lis-tener) 'well, on the very next day after all those dreams, that is to say, exactly five days ago, in the evening, by a cunning trick, like a thief in the night, I stole from Katerina Ivanov-na the key of her box, took out what was left of my earnings, how much it was I have forgotten, and now look at me, all of you!It's the fifth day since I left home, and they are look-ing for me there and it's the end of my employment, and my uniform is lying in a tavern on the Egyptian bridge.
-- He laid the axe on the ground near the dead body and felt at once in her pocket (trying to avoid the streaming body) the same right-hand pocket from which she had taken the key on his last visit.
-- It was not so much that his hands were shaking, but that he kept making mistakes; though he saw for instance that a key was not the right one and would not 118 Crime and Punishmentfit, still he tried to put it in.
-- Suddenly he remembered and realised that the big key with the deep notches, which was hanging there with the small keys could not possibly be-long to the chest of drawers (on his last visit this had struck him), but to some strong box, and that everything perhaps was hidden in that box.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had begun to grow dark, and I had shut the window (I had beenlying, for the most part, with my head upon the sill, by turnscrying, dozing, and looking listlessly out), when the key wasturned, and Miss Murdstone came in with some bread and meat,and milk.
-- Once more he laid hishand upon my shoulder; and then taking his flute and a few booksfrom his desk, and leaving the key in it for his successor, he wentout of the school, with his property under his arm.
-- So I took the key of the house to the landlord,who was very glad to get it; and the beds were sent over to theKing's Bench, except mine, for which a little room was hiredoutside the walls in the neighbourhood of that Institution, verymuch to my satisfaction, since the Micawbers and I had become tooused to one another, in our troubles, to part.
-- It was a wonderfully fine thing to walk about town withthe key of my house in my pocket, and to know that I could askany fellow to come home, and make quite sure of its beinginconvenient to nobody, if it were not so to me.
-- I could onlysit down before my fire, biting the key of my carpet-bag, and thinkof the captivating, girlish, bright-eyed, lovely Dora.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have now a key to all her odd looks and ways.
-- That is the key to a great deal of capacity.
-- ' He met her at the parlour-door, and hard-ly asking her how she did, in the natural key of his voice, sunk it immediately, to say, unheard by her father, 'Can you come to Randalls at any time this morning? Do, if it be possible.
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