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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had had the key that was found, made long before.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When our cook wanted to go out to market, or on any other errand, she found the front door locked and the key taken away.
-- "What key--the key of the door?"
-- Your portmanteau is not packed--my papers are not in order--the precious tailor has not brought my clothes, nor my gaiters--the key of my carpet bag is gone!"
-- One day, after an unusually strong shock, the vast rock which stands in our way, and which was doubtless the key of a kind of arch, fell through to a level with the soil and has barred our further progress.
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：
-- 'Do you think I could have a key too, so that I could sit here sometimes?
-- You could spare your key for so long.'
-- 'Do you think there is a second key to that little hut not far from John's Well, where the pheasants are reared?'
-- 'Sir Clifford 'adn't got no other key then?'
-- Then he hitched up his jacket, and put his hand in his breeches pocket, taking out the key of the hut.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By-and-by the noise of the key in the lock arrested them both.
-- The door clashed the key turned and a ray of unusual light, and a breath of unusual air, seemed to have passed through the jail, vanishing in a tiny wreath of smoke from the cigar.
-- There was nothing about him in the way of decoration but a watch, which was lowered into the depths of its proper pocket by an old black ribbon, and had a tarnished copper key moored above it, to show where it was sunk.
-- He was under lock and key; but the lock and key that kept him in, kept numbers of his troubles out.
-- But she was a very, very little creature indeed, when she had somehow gained the knowledge that her clasp of her father's hand was to be always loosened at the door which the great key opened; and that while her own light steps were free to pass beyond it, his feet must never cross that line.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A key is thrown in, which unlocks the door, and in a spasm of rapture he tears off his chains and rushes away to find and rescue his lady love.
-- Here's the key in the letter.
-- Great applause as Mr. Weller deposited a little key on the table and subsided, the warming pan clashed and waved wildly, and it was some time before order could be restored.
-- 'I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen,' observed Jo mysteri-ously.
-- 'I've got the key to mine, but I'm not allowed to try it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.
-- putting her hand in her side-pocket, "here's a key that'll fit, I guess; let's see."
-- But my whole clock's run down; my heart the all-controlling weight, I have no key to lift again.
-- Then opening the slide a little, the Captain whispered something down the crack, closed it, and turned the key upon them ten in number leaving on deck some twenty or more, who thus far had remained neutral.
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