fire是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 火； 火灾， 失火； 炉火vi. 开火vt. 放(枪)，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《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had run several miles, when, the fire becoming low for want of fuel, the steam had slackened; and it had finally stopped an hour after, some twenty miles beyond Fort Kearney.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes--no--well-- BUT they'd probably fire you from medic school, my lad.
-- The little man, the rosy, pudgy, good little man, he stared and hummed and spoke softly: "Arrowsmith, I could fire you right now, of course, but I believe you have good stuff in you.
-- But I got to worrying about it, and I drove over and--Doc, I fire off my mouth pretty easy, I guess.
-- or the Camp Fire Girls; they were all fond of picnicking; and they could all of them, except the five-year-old twins, quote practically without error the newest statistics showing the evils of alcohol.
-- Pickerbaugh had fitted up for him an exhibition laboratory which, except that it had no running water and except that the fire laws forbade his using any kind of a flame, was exactly like a real one.
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：
-- The head clerk looked at him with a condescending smile of compassion, and at the same time with a certain triumph, as at a novice under fire for the first time as though he would say: 'Well, how do you feel now?'
-- An accident on a staircase, spontaneous combustion of a shopkeeper from alcohol, a fire in Peski 芒聙娄 a fire in the Pe-tersburg quarter 芒聙娄 another fire in the Petersburg quarter 芒聙娄 and another fire in the Petersburg quarter芒聙娄.
-- Bending over the water, he gazed mechanically at the last pink flush of the sunset, at the row of houses growing dark in the gathering twilight, at one distant attic window on the left bank, flash-ing as though on fire in the last rays of the setting sun, at the darkening water of the canal, and the water seemed to catch his attention.
-- You, yourself, described him as a monomaniac when you fetched me to him 芒聙娄 and we added fuel to the fire yes-terday, you did, that is, with your story about the painter; it was a nice conversation, when he was, perhaps, mad on that very point!If only I'd known what happened then at the police station and that some wretch 芒聙娄 had insulted him with this suspicion!Hm 芒聙娄 I would not have allowed that conversation yesterday.
-- Their eyes met, and the fire in Raskolnikov's seemed ready to reduce him to ashes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is something strange to me, even now, in the reflection thathe never saw me; and something stranger yet in the shadowyremembrance that I have of my first childish associations with hiswhite gravestone in the churchyard, and of the indefinablecompassion I used to feel for it lying out alone there in the darknight, when our little parlour was warm and bright with fire andcandle, and the doors of our house were- almost cruelly, it seemedto me sometimes- bolted and locked against it.
-- They went into the parlour my mother had come from, the fire inthe best room on the other side of the passage not being lighted-not having been lighted, indeed, since my father's funeral; andwhen they were both seated, and Miss Betsey said nothing, mymother, after vainly trying to restrain herself, began to cry.
-- Tohear the wind getting up out at sea, to know that the fog wascreeping over the desolate flat outside, and to look at the fire andthink that there was no house near but this one, and this one a boat,was like enchantment.
-- Mrs. Gummidge had been in a low state all day, and had burst intotears in the forenoon, when the fire smoked.
-- When we stopped forsupper I couldn't muster courage to take any, though I should haveliked it very much, but sat by the fire and said I didn't wantanything.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once, I felt the fire rather too much; but then I moved back my chair a little, a very little, and it did not disturb me.
-- The whole party walked about, and looked, and praised again; and then, having nothing else to do, formed a sort of half-circle round the fire, to observe in their various modes, till other subjects were started, that, though May, a fire in the evening was still very pleasant.
-- Could a linguist, could a grammarian, could even a mathematician have seen what she did, have witnessed their appearance together, and 406 Emmaheard their history of it, without feeling that circumstanc-es had been at work to make them peculiarly interesting to each other? How much more must an imaginist, like her-self, be on fire with speculation and foresight! especially with such a groundwork of anticipation as her mind had already made.
-- When he was again in their company, he could not help remem-bering what he had seen; nor could he avoid observations which, unless it were like Cowper and his fire at twilight, 'Myself creating what I saw,' brought him yet stronger suspicion of there being a something of private liking, of private understanding even, between Frank Churchill and Jane.
-- That he might not be irritat-ed into an absolute fever, by the fire which Mr. Woodhouse's tender habits required almost every evening throughout the year, he soon afterwards took a hasty leave, and walked home to the coolness and solitude of Donwell Abbey.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The inside of the hut, as it now presented itself, was cosy and alluring, and the scarlet handful of fire in addition to the candle, reflecting its own genial colour upon whatever it could reach, flung associations of enjoyment even over utensils and tools.
-- It was a time when in cottages the breath of the sleepers freezes to the sheets; when round the drawing-room fire of a thick-walled mansion the sitters' backs are cold, even whilst their faces are all aglow.
-- Gabriel had always known that when the fire was lighted and the door closed one of these must be kept open that chosen being always on the side away from the wind.
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