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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a smell of black dye in the airless room, which the fire had been drawing out of the crape and stuff of the widow's dress for fifteen months, and out of the bier-like sofa for fifteen years.
-- He had struck fire out of her, and was surprised.
-- 'You and me,' said the turnkey, one snowy winter's night when the lodge, with a bright fire in it, was pretty full of company, 'is the oldest inhabitants.
-- She had brought the meat home that she should have eaten herself, and was already warming it on a gridiron over the fire for her father, clad in an old grey gown and a black cap, awaiting his supper at the table.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As young readers like to know 'how people look', we will take this moment to give them a little sketch of the four sisters, who sat knitting away in the twilight, while the December snow fell quietly without, and the fire crackled cheerfully within.
-- And Laurie poked the fire to hide a little twitching of the lips that he could not control.
-- asked the boy, changing the subject, after a little pause, during which he stared at the fire and Jo looked about her, well pleased.
-- They found Mr. Laurence standing before the fire in the great drawing room, by Jo's attention was entirely absorbed by a grand piano, which stood open.
-- 'I didn't day anything about his eyes, and I don't see why you need fire up when I admire his riding.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was cold as Iceland no fire at all the landlord said he couldn't afford it.
-- As I sat there in that now lonely room; the fire burning low, in that mild stage when, after its first intensity has warmed the air, it then only glows to be looked at; the evening shades and phantoms gathering round the casements, and peering in upon us silent, solitary twain; the storm booming without in solemn swells; I began to be sensible of strange feelings.
-- We felt very nice and snug, the more so since it was so chilly out of doors; indeed out of bed-clothes too, seeing that there was no fire in the room.
-- Next morning early, leaving Queequeg shut up with Yojo in our little bedroom for it seemed that it was some sort of Lent or Ramadan, or day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer with Queequeg and Yojo that day; how it was I never could find out, for, though I applied myself to it several times, I never could master his liturgies and XXXIX Articles leaving Queequeg, then, fasting on his tomahawk pipe, and Yojo warming himself at his sacrificial fire of shavings, I sallied out among the shipping.
-- If American and European men-of-war now peacefully ride in once savage harbors, let them fire salutes to the honor and glory of the whale-ship, which originally showed them the way, and first interpreted between them and the savages.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unfortunately for, the experimental philosophy of the female to whose protecting care Oliver Twist was delivered over, a similar result usually attended the operation of her system; for at the very moment when the child had contrived to exist upon the smallest possible portion of the weakest possible food, it did perversely happen in eight and a half cases out of ten, either that it sickened from want and cold, or fell into the fire from neglect, or got half-smothered by accident; in any one of which cases, the miserable little being was usually summoned into another world, and there gathered to the fathers it had never known in this.
-- There was no fire in the room; but a man was crouching, mechanically, over the empty stove.
-- There was neither fire nor candle; she died in the dark--in the dark!
-- Mr. Sowerberry and Bumble, being personal friends of the clerk, sat by the fire with him, and read the paper.
-- 'Dodger, take off the sausages; and draw a tub near the fire for Oliver.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But here she did injustice to the fire and in- dependence of his character, for it led him to escape out of Longbourn House the next morning with admirable sly- ness, and hasten to Lucas Lodge to throw himself at her feet.
-- The party then gathered round the fire to hear Lady Catherine determine what weather they were to have on the morrow.
-- She followed her father to the fire place, and they both sat down.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While this was doing the master, seeing some light colliers, who, not able to ride out the storm were obliged to slip and run away to sea, and would come near us, ordered to fire a gun as a signal of distress.
-- It is impossible to express the astonishment of these poor creatures at the noise and fire of my gun: some of them were even ready to die for fear, and fell down as dead with the very terror; but when they saw the creature dead, and sunk in the water, and that I made signs to them to come to the shore, they took heart and came, and began to search for the creature.
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