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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, when the work was finished, fire destroyed all trace of our proceedings on this island, that I could have jumped over if I had liked."
-- "Besides," I added, "to fire under water in a medium eight hundred and fifty-five times denser than the air, we must conquer very considerable resistance."
-- There exist guns, according to Fulton, perfected in England by Philip Coles and Burley, in France by Furcy, and in Italy by Landi, which are furnished with a peculiar system of closing, which can fire under these conditions.
-- And, provided with a lentil, he lighted a fire of dead wood that crackled joyously.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A good many people are still waiting for the rabbit and the fire to cook it."
-- He came back with the towels, and took his former position, crouching seated before the fire on the fender.
-- "Don't you love to feel the fire on your skin?"
-- The cattle broke and fell back quite spontaneously, went running up the hill, their fleece waving like fire to their motion.
-- Everywhere were these noiseless ruddy creatures of fire drifting near the surface of the water, caught at by the rarest, scarce visible reflections.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Happily, an inhabitant of the kitchen made more despatch: a lusty dame, with tucked up gown, bare arms, and fire flushed cheeks, rushed into the midst of us flourishing a frying pan: and used that weapon, and her tongue, to such purpose, that the storm subsided magically, and she only remained, heaving like a sea after a high wind, when her master entered on the scene.
-- All day had been flooding with rain; we could not go to church, so Joseph must needs get up a congregation in the garret; and, while Hindley and his wife basked downstairs before a comfortable fire doing anything but reading their Bibles, I'll answer for it Heathcliff, myself, and the unhappy ploughboy were commanded to take our prayer books, and mount: we were ranged in a row, on a sack of corn, groaning and shivering, and hoping that Joseph would shiver too, so that he might give us a short homily for his own sake.
-- Saying this, he compelled us so to square our positions that we might receive from the far off fire a dull ray to show us the text of the lumber he thrust upon us.
-- I bid them be quiet, now that they saw me returned, and, benumbed to my very heart, I dragged up stairs; whence, after putting on dry clothes, and pacing to and fro thirty or forty minutes, to restore the animal heat, I adjourned to my study, feeble as a kitten: almost too much so to enjoy the cheerful fire and smoking coffee which the servant had prepared for my refreshment.
-- He died quietly in his chair one October evening, seated by the fire side.
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