instrument是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 工具， 仪器， 器械； 乐器，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：
-- It happened, at length, that he had occasion to change the instrument in his hand, for his shoemaker's knife.
-- One lacquey carried the chocolate-pot into the sacred presence; a second, milled and frothed the chocolate with the little instrument he bore for that function; a third, presented the favoured napkin; a fourth (he of the two gold watches), poured the chocolate out.
-- Presently the honoured parent appeared to be adjusting some instrument like a great corkscrew.
-- He had never seen the instrument that was to terminate his life.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What I began precisely was to write a book on agriculture; but studying the chief instrument of agriculture, the laborer," said Levin, reddening, "I could not help coming to quite unexpected results."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus was celebrated the inauguration of this great railroad, a mighty instrument of progress and civilisation, thrown across the desert, and destined to link together cities and towns which do not yet exist.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Duer regarded the outstretched hand as though it was an instrument which he had seen before but whose use he could not quite remember.
-- It was announced in the Winnemac Daily News that Dr. Geake had been called from the chair of otolaryngology to the vice-presidency of the puissant New Idea Medical Instrument and Furniture Company of Jersey City.
-- But so far as possible have everything in sanitary- looking white-- and think of the color-schemes you can evolve, or the good wife for you, if she be one blessed with artistic tastes!Rich golden or red cushions, in a Morris chair enameled the purest white!A floor-covering of white enamel, with just a border of delicate rose!Recent and unspotted numbers of expensive magazines, with art covers, lying on a white table!Gentlemen, there is the idea of imaginative salesmanship which I wish to leave with you; there is the gospel which I hope to spread in my fresh field of endeavor, the New Idea Instrument Company of Jersey City, where at any time I shall be glad to see and shake by the hand any and all of you."
-- The operating-room--white tile walls and white tile floor and glittering frosted-glass skylight--seemed lined with fire-lit ice, and the large incandescents glared on the glass instrument cases, the cruel little knives.
-- Chapter 15 With none of the profane observations on "medical peddlers" which had annoyed Digamma Pi, Martin studied the catalogue of the New Idea Instrument and Furniture Company, of Jersey City.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am glad to think Ihave been the instrument of good to Mr. Wickfield, and that I maybe more so.
-- I am the umble instrument ofumbly serving him, and he puts me on an eminence I hardly could 354have hoped to reach.
-- The largeoffice-ruler was stuck into his waistcoat, and was not so wellconcealed but that a foot or more of that instrument protrudedfrom his bosom, like a new kind of shirt-frill.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was glad you made her play so much, for having no instrument at her grandmother's, it must have been a real indulgence.'
-- This is like giv-ing ourselves a slap, to be sure!and it was but yesterday I was telling Mr. Cole, I really was ashamed to look at our new grand pianoforte in the drawing-room, while I do not know one note from another, and our little girls, who are but just beginning, perhaps may never make any thing of it; and there is poor Jane Fairfax, who is mistress of mu-sic, has not any thing of the nature of an instrument, not even the pitifullest old spinet in the world, to amuse herself with. I was saying this to Mr. Cole but yesterday, and he quite agreed with me; only he is so particularly fond of mu-sic that he could not help indulging himself in the purchase, hoping that some of our good neighbours might be so oblig-ing occasionally to put it to a better use than we can; and that really is the reason why the instrument was bought or else I am sure we ought to be ashamed of it. We are in great hopes that Miss Woodhouse may be prevailed with to try it this evening.'
-- She must know as well as her father, how acceptable an instrument would be; and perhaps the mode of it, the mystery, the surprize, is more like a young woman's scheme than an elderly man's.
-- 'I have heard him lamenting her having no instrument 274 Emmarepeatedly; oftener than I should suppose such a circum-stance would, in the common course of things, occur to him.'
-- They combated the point some time longer in the same way; Emma rather gaining ground over the mind of her friend; for Mrs. Weston was the most used of the two to yield; till a little bustle in the room shewed them that tea was over, and the instrument in preparation; and at the same moment Mr. Cole approaching to entreat Miss Woodhouse would do them the honour of trying it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This instrument being several years older than Oak's grandfather, had the peculiarity of going either too fast or not at all.
-- The meek sheep were pushed into the pool by Coggan and Matthew Moon, who stood by the lower hatch, immersed to their waists; then Gabriel, who stood on the brink, thrust them under as they swam along, with an instrument like a crutch, formed for the purpose, and also for assisting the exhausted animals when the wool became saturated and they began to sink.
-- He had flung off his coat, rolled up his shirt-sleeves, and taken from his pocket the instrument of salvation.
-- "The Soldier's Joy" has, too, an additional charm, in being so admirably adapted to the tambourine aforesaid no mean instrument in the hands of a performer who understands the proper convulsions, spasms, St. Vitus's dances, and fearful frenzies necessary when exhibiting its tones in their highest perfection.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I was otherwise quite restored to health, the sight of a chemical instrument would renew all the agony of my nervous symptoms.
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