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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That black figure with its eyes of fire struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten horrors of child-hood came back to my mind.
-- 'He sends the Fire that kills,' said he, in his deep voice, repeating part of the Ritual.
-- In the morning I would gather some provisions in the dingey, and after setting fire to the pyre before me, push out into the desolation of the high sea once more.
-- The knotted black strug-gle broke into scattering units, the fire leapt and sank down.
-- The fire beside me had sunk down, and only charred beams of timber glowing at the central ends and mixed with a grey ash of brushwood re-mained.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By Red Flower Bagheera meant fire, only no creature in the jungle will call fire by its proper name.
-- Then he pressed his face close to the window and watched the fire on the hearth.
-- All that day Mowgli sat in the cave tending his fire pot and dipping dry branches into it to see how they looked.
-- Bagheera lay close to Mowgli, and the fire pot was between Mowgli's knees.
-- Mowgli stood upright the fire pot in his hands.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The strong glare of the fire fell full upon his sturdy, weath-er-beaten countenance and forest attire, lending an air of romantic wildness to the aspect of an individual, who, seen by the sober light of day, would have exhibited the peculiarities of a man remarkable for the strangeness of his dress, the iron-like inflexibility of his frame, and the singular compound of quick, vigilant sagacity, and of ex-quisite simplicity, that by turns usurped the possession of his muscular features.
-- 'This fire begins to show too bright a flame,' he contin-ued, as they complied, 'and might light the Mingoes to our undoing.
-- A long and anxious watch succeeded, but without any further evidences of a renewed attack; and Duncan began to hope that their fire had proved more fatal than was sup-posed, and that their enemies had been effectually repulsed.
-- demanded Hawkeye, sternly; 'Tis a charge of powder saved, and ammunition is as precious now as breath to a worried deer!Freshen the priming of your pistols the midst of the falls is apt to dampen the brimstone and stand firm for a close struggle, while I fire on their rush.'
-- It would seem that interest in the result had kept the natives on the opposite shores in breath- less suspense, while the quick evolutions and swift changes in the positions of the combatants effectually prevented a fire that might prove dangerous alike to friend and en- emy.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still he must have had fire and mettle in his day, if we may judge from the name he bore of Gunpowder.
-- Another convulsive kick in the ribs, and old Gunpowder sprang upon the bridge; he thundered over the resounding planks; he gained the opposite side; and now Ichabod cast a look behind to see if his pursuer should vanish, according to rule, in a flash of fire and brimstone.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Fire in with your petition, my dear Amy,' I said.
-- A latent gift might reveal itself on acquaintance with the painters and writers whose society his wife sought; or domestic incompatability might turn him upon himself; a love affair might fan into bright flame a fire which I could have shown smouldering dimly in his heart.
-- But he made her promise that when she had buried him did I tell you that I dug his grave with my own hands, for none of the natives would approach the infected house, and we buried him, she and I, sewn up in three pareos joined together, under the mango-tree he made her promise that she would set fire to the house and not leave it till it was burned to the ground and not a stick remained."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The reporter then proposed to light a fire on a point of the islet, which would serve as a signal to the engineer.
-- A shot fired among this swarm would have killed a great number, but to fire a shot a gun was needed, and neither Pencroft nor Herbert had one; besides this, gulls and sea- mews are scarcely eatable, and even their eggs have a detestable taste.
-- One narrow and winding opening at the side was kept, to lead out the smoke and to make the fire draw.
-- "Still we might get fire as the savages do," replied Herbert, "by rubbing two bits of dry stick one against the other."
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