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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she was emptying the beans into the pan, one dropped without her observing it, and lay on the ground beside a straw, and soon afterwards a burning coal from the fire leapt down to the two.
-- 'The old woman has destroyed all my brethren in fire and smoke; she seized sixty of them at once, and took their lives.
-- Even the fire on the hearth left off blazing, and went to sleep; the jack stopped, and the spit that was turning about with a goose upon it for the king's dinner stood still; and the cook, who was at that moment pulling the kitchen-boy by the hair to give him a box on the ear for something he had done amiss, let him go, and both fell asleep; the butler, who was slyly tasting the ale, fell asleep with the jug at his lips: and thus everything stood still, and slept soundly.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The empress's apartment on fire by an accident; the author instrumental in saving the rest of the palace.
-- The heat I had con-tracted by coming very near the flames, and by labouring to quench them, made the wine begin to operate by urine; which I voided in such a quantity, and applied so well to the proper places, that in three minutes the fire was wholly ex-tinguished, and the rest of that noble pile, which had cost so many ages in erecting, preserved from destruction.
-- ''Whereas, by a statute made in the reign of his imperial majesty Calin Deffar Plune, it is enacted, that, whoever shall make water within the precincts of the royal palace, shall be liable to the pains and penalties of high-treason; notwith-standing, the said Quinbus Flestrin, in open breach of the said law, under colour of extinguishing the fire kindled in the apartment of his majesty's most dear imperial consort, did maliciously, traitorously, and devilishly, by discharge of his urine, put out the said fire kindled in the said apart-ment, lying and being within the precincts of the said royal palace, against the statute in that case provided, etc.
-- The treasurer and admiral insisted that you should be put to the most pain-ful and ignominious death, by setting fire to your house at night, and the general was to attend with twenty thousand men, armed with poisoned arrows, to shoot you on the face and hands.
-- Bolgolam, the admiral, could not preserve his temper, but, rising up in fury, said, he won-dered how the secretary durst presume to give his opinion for preserving the life of a traitor; that the services you had performed were, by all true reasons of state, the great aggra-vation of your crimes; that you, who were able to extinguish the fire by discharge of urine in her majesty's apartment (which he mentioned with horror), might, at another time, raise an inundation by the same means, to drown the whole palace; and the same strength which enabled you to bring over the enemy's fleet, might serve, upon the first discon-tent, to carry it back; that he had good reasons to think you were a Big-endian in your heart; and, as treason begins in the heart, before it appears in overt-acts, so he accused you as a traitor on that account, and therefore insisted you should be put to death.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an air of jaded sullenness in them both, and particularly in the girl: yet, struggling through the dissatisfaction of her face, there was a light with nothing to rest upon, a fire with nothing to burn, a starved imagination keeping life in itself somehow, which brightened its expression.
-- The answer was so long in coming, though there was no indecision in it, that Tom went and leaned on the back of her chair, to contemplate the fire which so engrossed her, from her point of view, and see what he could make of it.
-- 'Fire away!'
-- Everything was in its place and order as he had always kept it, the little fire was newly trimmed, and the hearth was freshly swept.
-- Saving that the fire had died out, it was as his eyes had closed upon it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though lying in the centre of a town, it was perfectly rural in its aspect--half wood, half bricks, with old-fashioned gables--one of the few old houses spared by the great fire of 1842.
-- Crystals of opaque quartz, adorned with limpid drops of natural glass suspended to the roof like lusters, seemed to take fire as we passed beneath them.
-- In spite of all the learned theories of Professor Hardwigg, a fierce and vehement fire certainly burned within the entrails of the great spheroid.
-- I immediately knew that the gallery was filled to overflowing with that dangerous gas the miners call fire damp, the explosion of which has caused such fearful and terrible accidents, making a hundred widows and hundreds of orphans in a single hour.
-- The light of our Ruhmkorff's coil, increased tenfold by the myriad of prismatic masses of rock, sent its jets of fire in every direction, and I could fancy myself traveling through a huge hollow diamond, the rays of which produced myriads of extraordinary effects.
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：
-- Now she and Michaelis sit on opposite sides of the fire and talked.
-- And a little thin tongue of fire suddenly flickered in his loins, at the root of his back, and he groaned in spirit.
-- Yet the fire was bright, the hearth white, the petroleum lamp hung bright over the table, with its white oil-cloth.
-- He sat by the fire in his shirt-sleeves, not smoking, but with a mug of beer in reach.
-- It fitted the turgidity of his desire which, in spite of all, was like a riches; the stirring restlessness of his penis, the stirring fire in his loins!Oh, if only there were other men to be with, to fight that sparkling electric Thing outside there, to preserve the tenderness of life, the tenderness of women, and the natural riches of de-sire.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a fire in the grate, as there had been night and day for fifteen years.
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