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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Let me think," said Mrs. Hurst, poking the fire superfluously.... "Yes bless you, ever so many young men.
-- The fire was issuing from a long straw-stack, which was so far gone as to preclude a possibility of saving it.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hearth is always so clean and neat that it is evident that a fire is only kindled there on great occasions; the stone chimney-piece is adorned by a couple of vases filled with faded artificial flowers imprisoned under glass shades, on either side of a bluish marble clock in the very worst taste.
-- Vauquer lay down to rest on the day of M. Goriot's installation, her heart, like a larded partridge, sweltered before the fire of a burning desire to shake off the shroud of Vauquer and rise again as Goriot.
-- Vauquer saw to her table, lighted a fire daily in the sitting-room for nearly six months, and kept the promise of her prospectus, even going to some expense to do so.
-- Apparently, such strict economy was called for, that he did without a fire all through the winter.
-- Eugene exchanged his dress suit for a shabby overcoat and slippers, kindled a fire with some blocks of patent fuel, and prepared for his night's work in such a sort that the faint sounds he made were drowned by Christophe's heavy tramp on the stairs.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump.
-- When you read their writings, life appears to consist in a warm sun and a garden of roses, in the smiles and frowns of a fair enemy, and the fire that consumes your own heart.
-- He threatened excommunication and hell fire in my last mo-ments if I continued obdurate.
-- But I consented to listen, and seating myself by the fire which my odious companion had lighted, he thus began his tale.
-- 'One day, when I was oppressed by cold, I found a fire which had been left by some wandering beggars, and was overcome with delight at the warmth I experienced from it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had always yearned to be loved by some beautiful,dashing creature full of fire and mischief.
-- Somewhere in her brain, a slow fire rose and rage began to blot out everything else.
-- But fire or no fire, her job was to get herself backinto the bedroom before she was discovered.
-- He had never seensuch fire in any girl's face, such a glow in anyone's eyes.
-- And the Charlestonians took so much upon themselves about Fort Sumter!Good Heavens, didn't they realize thatif they hadn't been silly enough to fire the shot that started the war some other fools would have done it?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That's what she did," said Joe, slowly clearing the fire between the lower bars with the poker, and looking at it; "she Ram-paged out, Pip."
-- Then, as the marsh winds made the fire glow and flare, I thought I heard the voice outside, of the man with the iron on his leg who had sworn me to secrecy, declaring that he couldn't and wouldn't starve until to-morrow, but must be fed now.
-- And now, when they were all in lively anticipation of "the two villains" being taken, and when the bellows seemed to roar for the fugitives, the fire to flare for them, the smoke to hurry away in pursuit of them, Joe to hammer and clink for them, and all the murky shadows on the wall to shake at them in menace as the blaze rose and sank, and the red-hot sparks dropped and died, the pale afternoon outside almost seemed in my pitying young fancy to have turned pale on their account, poor wretches.
-- The torches we carried dropped great blotches of fire upon the track, and I could see those, too, lying smoking and flaring.
-- While we stood in the hut, he stood before the fire looking thoughtfully at it, or putting up his feet by turns upon the hob, and looking thoughtfully at them as if he pitied them for their recent adventures.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because I am beginning to grow old, and had rather lie at my ease by the fire than run about the house after the mice, my mistress laid hold of me, and was going to drown me; and though I have been lucky enough to get away from her, I do not know what I am to live upon.'
-- So she made a fire on her hearth, and that it might burn the quicker, she lighted it with a handful of straw.
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