flock是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (鸟兽) 群, 一群人, 群集，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if you were shown a flock of birds, unable to fly, and were set upon them to strip them of their feathers for your own advantage, you would set upon the birds of the finest feathers; would you not?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vassenka had fired at a flock of ducks which was hovering over the marsh and flying at that moment towards the sportsmen, far out of range.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Martin's flock turned to him for help, their need and their patient obedience made them beautiful.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next day, too, when we all go in a flock to see the house- ourhouse- Dor's and mine- I am quite unable to regard myself as itsmaster.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fitness being the basis of beauty, nobody could have denied that his steady swings and turns in and about the flock had elements of grace.
-- The dog took no notice, for he had arrived at an age at which all superfluous barking was cynically avoided as a waste of breath in fact, he never barked even at the sheep except to order, when it was done with an absolutely neutral countenance, as a sort of Commination-service, which, though offensive, had to be gone through once now and then to frighten the flock for their own good.
-- He was learning the sheep-keeping business, so as to follow on at the flock when the other should die, but had got no further than the rudiments as yet still finding an insuperable difficulty in distinguishing between doing a thing well enough and doing it too well.
-- So earnest and yet so wrong-headed was this young dog (he had no name in particular, and answered with perfect readiness to any pleasant interjection), that if sent behind the flock to help them on, he did it so thoroughly that he would have chased them across the whole county with the greatest pleasure if not called off or reminded when to stop by the example of old George.
-- This exceptional ringing may be caused in two ways by the rapid feeding of the sheep bearing the bell, as when the flock breaks into new pasture, which gives it an intermittent rapidity, or by the sheep starting off in a run, when the sound has a regular palpitation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under these circumstances, when Flopson and Millers had got the children into the house, like a little flock of sheep, and Mr. Pocket came out of it to make my acquaintance, I was not much surprised to find that Mr. Pocket was a gentleman with a rather perplexed expression of face, and with his very gray hair disordered on his head, as if he didn't quite see his way to putting anything straight.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Curdken said, 'When we go in the morning through the dark gate with our flock of geese, she cries and talks with the head of a horse that hangs upon the wall, and says: 'Falada, Falada, there thou hangest!'
-- And Curdken went on telling the king what had hap-pened upon the meadow where the geese fed; how his hat was blown away; and how he was forced to run after it, and to leave his flock of geese to themselves.
-- Then he went into the field, and hid himself in a bush by the meadow's side; and he soon saw with his own eyes how they drove the flock of geese; and how, after a little time, she let down her hair that glittered in the sun.
-- At this same moment up came, 161with a flock of sheep, the very shepherd whom the peasant knew had long been wishing to be mayor, so he cried with all his might: 'No, I will not do it; if the whole world in-sists on it, I will not do it!'
-- The shepherd was willing, and got in, and the peasant shut the top down on him; then he took the shepherd's flock for him-self, and drove it away.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These papers are delivered to a set of artists, very dexterous in finding out the mysterious meanings of words, syllables, and letters: for instance, they can discover a close stool, to signify a privy council; a flock of geese, a senate; a lame dog, an invader; the plague, a standing army; a buzzard, a prime minister; the gout, a high priest; a gibbet, a secretary of state; a cham-ber pot, a committee of grandees; a sieve, a court lady; a broom, a revolution; a mouse-trap, an employment; a bot-tomless pit, a treasury; a sink, a court; a cap and bells, a favourite; a broken reed, a court of justice; an empty tun, a general; a running sore, the administration.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What should we do in the midst of that flock of gigantic quadrupeds?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- caused a momentary flurry, which was hardly over when a flock of cousins arrived, and 'the party came in', as Beth used to say when a child.
-- 'A flock of our fellows are going to drive over by-and-by, and I'll be hanged if I don't make them buy every flower she's got, and camp down before her table afterward,' said Laurie, espousing her cause with warmth.
-- 'Here's a lovely flock of lambs all lying down,' says Amy.
-- 'This will be a regularly merry Christmas to me, with presents in the morning, you and letters in the afternoon, and a party at night,' said Amy, as they alighted among the ruins of the old fort, and a flock of splendid peacocks came trooping about them, tamely waiting to be fed.
-- The air was dark with Davises, and many Jones gamboled like a flock of young giraffes.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had these Leviathans been but a flock of simple sheep, pursued over the pasture by three fierce wolves, they could not possibly have evinced such excessive dismay.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fact is, that there was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver to take upon himself the office of respiration,--a troublesome practice, but one which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence; and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next: the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter.
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