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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Loud snores in every tune and key soon resounded from all sides of the hut, the deep bass contribution of Paganel completing the harmony.
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：
-- Long afterwards when I had fallen into a light sleep I heard a key turn somewhere in a lock, but I could not tell whence the sound came.
-- A key turned in a lock, and as he passed in there was a curious scuffling noise from within.
-- He was only a minute or so inside, and then I heard the key turn once more and he passed me and re-entered the house.
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 used to watch the line where earth and sky met, and longed to go and seek there the key of all mysteries, thinking that I might find there a new life, perhaps some great city where life should be grander and richer and then it struck me that life may be grand enough even in a prison.'
-- 'Do you think yourself my master, that you try to keep me under lock and key like this?'
-- cried Lebedeff, and seizing the key he made off in haste.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Water was then lowered down to them, and a couple of handfuls of biscuit were tossed after it; when again turning the key upon them and pocketing it, the Captain returned to the quarter-deck.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a second or two, Oliver glanced up the street, and down the street, and over the way: impressed with the belief that the unknown, who had addressed him through the key -hole, had walked a few paces off, to warm himself; for nobody did he see but a big charity -boy, sitting on a post in front of the house, eating a slice of bread and butter: which he cut into wedges, the size of his mouth, with a clasp-knife, and then consumed with great dexterity.
-- The old gentleman looked almost as rueful as Oliver when the key grated in the lock.
-- 'Yes, yes, my dear, so it does,' said the Jew, hanging a large street-door key on the forefinger of the young lady's right hand.
-- exclaimed Nancy, bursting into tears, and wringing the little basket and the street-door key in an agony of distress.
-- Entering by the back way, she tapped softly with the key at one of the cell-doors, and listened.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her nervous composition responded to certain strains, much as certain strings of a harp vibrate when a corresponding key of a piano is struck.
-- He pulled out his key and tried to insert it, but another key was on the inside.
-- He would not give the other a key to his opinions, whatever they were.
-- He opened with his key and went in.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We lived in that old cabin, and he always locked the door and put the key under his head nights.
-- I passed along, and the parlor door was open; but I see there warn't nobody in there but the re- mainders of Peter; so I shoved on by; but the front door was locked, and the key wasn't there.
-- He fetched uncle a key about the time we got up from table same key, I bet.
-- Then the first dark night that comes steal the key out of the old man's britches after he goes to bed, and shove off down the river on the raft with Jim, hiding daytimes and running nights, the way me and Jim used to do be- fore.
-- The niggers was just getting through break- fast and starting for the fields; and Jim's nigger was piling up a tin pan with bread and meat and things; and whilst the others was leav-ing, the key come from the house.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Turn the key and the door will open," said the same little voice.
-- Pinocchio turned the key and the door opened.
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