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：
-- See!there are the remains of a fire left by the Indians, and there are the marks of the mares and the sheep."
-- Besides, there was a sort of fireplace in it, with a chimney of bricks, badly enough put together, certainly, but still it allowed of a fire being lighted.
-- "Especially when there is a good fire blazing on the hearth, for we are quite as cold as we are hungry.
-- Each one, thereupon, wrapped himself up in his poncho, and the fire was made up for the night.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My first impression as I opened the door was that a fire had broken out, for the room was so filled with smoke that the light of the lamp upon the table was blurred by it.
-- The least appearance of opposition struck fire out of the old autocrat.
-- The ashes of a fire were heaped in a rude grate.
-- Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dew-lap were outlined in flickering flame.
-- Chapter 15 A Retrospection t was the end of November and Holmes and I sat, upon a Iraw and foggy night, on either side of a blazing fire in our sitting-room in Baker Street.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You may place a soldier before a cannon's mouth in battle, and fire upon him and he will still hope.
-- Here we are, now; sit down, prince, near the fire and talk to us.
-- As soon as the fire catches hold of it, you put your hands into the fire and pick it out without gloves, you know.
-- I shall so much admire you if you put your hands into the fire for my money.
-- All now crowded round the fire and thronged to see what was going on; everyone lamented and gave vent to excla-mations of horror and woe.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His heart was black with rage, and his eyes flashed fire as he scowled on Calchas and said, 'Seer of evil, you never yet prophesied smooth things concerning me, but have ever loved to foretell that which was evil.
-- Achilles turned in amaze, and by the fire that flashed from her eyes at once knew that she was Minerva.
-- They cut out the thigh-bones, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, set some pieces of raw meat on the top of them, and then Chryses laid them on the wood fire and poured wine over them, while the young men stood near him with five-pronged spits in their hands.
-- As when some great forest fire is raging upon a mountain top and its light is seen afar, even so as they marched the gleam of their armour flashed up into the firmament of heaven.
-- She made a stream of fire flare from his shield and helmet like the star that shines most brilliantly in summer after its bath in the waters of Oceanus even such a fire did she kindle upon his head and shoulders as she bade him speed into the thickest hurly- burly of the fight.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Hall lit the fire and left him there while she went to prepare him a meal with her own hands.
-- Although the fire was burning up briskly, she was surprised to see that her visitor still wore his hat and coat, standing with his back to her and staring out of the window at the falling snow in the yard.
-- The reflection of the fire lent a kind of red animation to his big spectacles they had lacked hitherto.
-- And directly the crates were unpacked, the stranger went to the window and set to work, not troubling in the least about the litter of straw, the fire which had gone out, the box of books outside, nor for the trunks and other luggage that had gone upstairs.
-- Then I went into the refreshment-room, drank a little milk I found there, and sat down by the fire to consider my position.
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