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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Paganel consulted his maps, and when he found any of those streams not marked, which often happened, all the fire of a geographer burned in his veins, and he would exclaim, with a charming air of vexation:"A river which hasn't a name is like having no civil standing.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The other creature, frighted with the flash of fire and the noise of the gun, swam on shore, and ran up directly to the mountains from whence they came; nor could I, at that dis-tance, know what it was.
-- Such impression did this make upon me, that after the storm was over I laid aside all my works, my building and fortifying, and applied myself to make bags and boxes, to separate the powder, and to keep it a little and a little in a parcel, in the hope that, whatever might come, it might not all take fire at once; and to keep it so apart that it should not be possible to make one part fire another.
-- Having now fixed my habitation, I found it absolutely necessary to provide a place to make a fire in, and fuel to burn: and what I did for that, and also how I enlarged my cave, and what conveniences I made, I shall give a full ac-count of in its place; but I must now give some little account of myself, and of my thoughts about living, which, it may well be supposed, were not a few.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About the middle of the day, Mrs. Jennings went out by herself on business, and Elinor began her letter directly, while Marianne, too restless for employment, too anxious for conversation, walked from one window to the other, or sat down by the fire in melancholy meditation.
-- She sat by the drawing-room fire after tea, till the moment of Lady Middleton's arrival, without once stirring from her seat, or altering her attitude, lost in her own thoughts, and insensible of her sister's presence; and when at last they were told that Lady Middleton waited for them at the door, she started as if she had forgotten that any one was expected.
-- CHAPTER 29Before the house-maid had lit their fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over a cold, gloomy morning in January, Marianne, only half dressed, was kneeling against one of the window-seats for the sake of all the little light she could command from it, and writing as fast as a continual flow of tears would permit her.
-- Elinor was employed in walking thoughtfully from the fire to the window, from the window to the fire, without knowing that she received warmth from one, or discerning objects through the other; and Marianne, seated at the foot of the bed, with her head leaning against one of its posts, again took up Willoughby's letter, and, after shuddering over every sentence, exclaimed "It is too much!Oh, Willoughby, Willoughby, could this be yours!Cruel, cruel nothing can acquit you.
-- Would either of them only have given her a full and minute account of the whole affair between Marianne and Mr. Willoughby, she would have thought herself amply rewarded for the sacrifice of the best place by the fire after dinner, which their arrival occasioned.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fire in the grate, too, had burned low.
-- Now go on and fire up.
-- Through an open door he saw into the kitchen, where the fire was crackling in the stove and the evening meal already well under way.
-- Hurstwood, being an older man, could scarcely be said to retain the fire of youth, though he did possess a passion warm and unreasoning.
-- "Well, I like that," exclaimed Drouet, little realising the fire his remark had generated.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I catched a catfish and haggled him open with my saw, and towards sundown I started my camp fire and had supper.
-- When it was dark I set by my camp fire smoking, and feeling pretty well satisfied; but by and by it got sort of lone-some, and so I went and set on the bank and listened to the current swashing along, and counted the stars and drift logs and rafts that come down, and then went to bed; there ain't no better way to put in time when you are lonesome; you can't stay so, you soon get over it.
-- I clipped along, and all of a sudden I bounded right on to the ashes of a camp fire that was still smoking.
-- So I got all my traps into my canoe again so as to have them out of sight, and I put out the fire and scattered the ashes around to look like an old last year's camp, and then clumb a tree.
-- But by and by, sure enough, I catched a glimpse of fire away through the trees.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
-- Know, then, that written in letters of fire I see the words: GREAT MARIONETTE THEATER.
-- "They are only good enough to light a fire with."
-- CHAPTER 10 The Marionettes recognize their brother Pinocchio, and greet him with loud cheers; but the Director, Fire Eater, happens along and poor Pinocchio almost loses his life.
-- He'll make a fine fire for this spit."
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