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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Acquit me here, and procure for me, when it is allowable, the acquittal and good wishes of that said Emma Woodhouse, whom I regard with so much brotherly affection, as to long to have her as deeply and as happily in love as myself. Whatever strange things I said or did during that fortnight, you have now a key to.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Folly in the concrete blushed, persisted in her intention, and placed the key on the book.
-- Fortunately, I could get the key of the coach-house, so I troubled no one further.
-- Breaking a key is a dreadful bodement.
-- "Where's the key of the granary?"
-- Tall, I've come for the key of the granary, to get at the rick-cloths," said Oak, in a stentorian voice.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So I have come to you to ask you to give me a key to a puzzle, to entreat you to tell me what sort of blunder I made this morning.
-- You will have a success, and in Paris success is everything; it is the key of power.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the last sound of carriage wheels had died away and she knew the family was safely out of sight sheslipped quietly into Melanie's room and turned the key in the lock.
-- They had ambitious plans to cut thevitally important railroad between Atlanta and Tennessee and then swing southward into Atlanta to destroy thefactories and the war supplies concentrated there in that key city of the Confederacy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine,--which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity,--it is the key to many reservations.
-- When Mr. Wemmick had put all the biscuit into the post, and had paid me my money from a cash-box in a safe, the key of which safe he kept somewhere down his back and produced from his coat-collar like an iron-pigtail, we went upstairs.
-- Thither I went, and there I found him, putting the key of his safe down his back as the clock struck.
-- At last, when we got to his place of business and he pulled out his key from his coat-collar, he looked as unconscious of his Walworth property as if the Castle and the drawbridge and the arbor and the lake and the fountain and the Aged, had all been blown into space together by the last discharge of the Stinger.
-- He took out his key and opened the door, and we all went into a stone hall, bare, gloomy, and little used.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The second tablet said: 'The key of the princess's bed-chamber must be fished up out of the lake.'
-- And as the dwarf came to the brink of it, he saw the two ducks whose lives he had saved swimming about; and they dived down and soon brought in the key from the bottom.
-- He sent a messenger to the other bride, and entreated her to return to her own kingdom, for he had a wife already, and someone who had just found an old key did not require a new one.
-- She want-ed to save her brothers, and had no key of the castle of the glass-mountain; so this faithful little sister took a knife out of her pocket and cut off her little finger, that was just the size of the piece of wood she had lost, and put it in the door and opened it.
-- There was great astonishment over the wild man; the king, however, had him put in an iron cage in his court-yard, and forbade the door to be opened on pain of death, and the queen herself was to take the key into her keeping.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made a shift to keep the key in a pocket of my own, fearing Glumdalclitch might lose it.
-- But this appeared extremely difficult: for the spinet was near sixty feet long, each key being al-most a foot wide, so that with my arms extended I could not reach to above five keys, and to press them down required a good smart stroke with my fist, which would be too great a labour, and to no purpose.
-- But further to confirm all I had said, I entreated him to give order that my cabinet should be brought, of which I had the key in my pocket; for he had already informed me how the seamen disposed of my closet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being then disturbed, they made off; letting themselves out at the main door, and double-locking it again (it was double-locked, and the key under Mrs. Sparsit's pillow) with a false key, which was picked up in the street near the Bank, about twelve o'clock to-day.
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