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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the evening the young girl and her companion were employed in various occupa-tions which I did not understand; and the old man again took up the instrument which produced the divine sounds that had enchanted me in the morning.
-- So soon as he had finished, the youth began, not to play, but to utter sounds that were monotonous, and neither resembling the harmo-ny of the old man's instrument nor the songs of the birds; I since found that he read aloud, but at that time I knew nothing of the science of words or letters.
-- The old man, whom I soon perceived to be blind, employed his leisure hours on his instrument or in contem-plation.
-- 'That he should live to be an instrument of mischief dis-turbs me; in other respects, this hour, when I momentarily expect my release, is the only happy one which I have en-joyed for several years.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "To think," said Mr. Pumblechook, after snorting admiration at me for some moments, "that I should have been the humble instrument of leading up to this, is a proud reward."
-- There were some marks in it that might have been dimples, if the material had been softer and the instrument finer, but which, as it was, were only dints.
-- Flopson, by dint of doubling the baby at the joints like a Dutch doll, then got it safely into Mrs. Pocket's lap, and gave it the nut-crackers to play with; at the same time recommending Mrs. Pocket to take notice that the handles of that instrument were not likely to agree with its eyes, and sharply charging Miss Jane to look after the same.
-- Two dismally absurd persons, each ostentatiously exhibiting a crutch done up in a black bandage,--as if that instrument could possibly communicate any comfort to anybody,--were posted at the front door; and in one of them I recognized a postboy discharged from the Boar for turning a young couple into a sawpit on their bridal morning, in consequence of intoxication rendering it necessary for him to ride his horse clasped round the neck with both arms.
-- It was pleasant to observe that Mrs. Wemmick no longer unwound Wemmick's arm when it adapted itself to her figure, but sat in a high-backed chair against the wall, like a violoncello in its case, and submitted to be embraced as that melodious instrument might have done.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I endeavoured to divert him from this design, by many arguments drawn from the topics of policy as well as justice; and I plainly protested, 'that I would never be an instrument of bringing a free and brave people into slavery.'
-- To her I chiefly owe my preservation in that country: we never parted while I was there; I called her my Glumdalclitch, or little nurse; and should be guilty of great ingratitude, if I omitted this honourable mention of her care and affection towards me, which I heartily wish it lay in my power to requite as she deserves, instead of being the innocent, but unhappy instrument of her disgrace, as I have too much reason to fear.
-- He said that, the people of their island had their ears adapted to hear 'the music of the spheres, which always played at certain periods, and the court was now prepared to bear their part, in whatever instrument they most excelled.'
-- But when the disease was more stubborn and vio-lent, he let in the muzzle while the bellows were full of wind, which he discharged into the body of the patient; then with-drew the instrument to replenish it, clapping his thumb strongly against the orifice of then fundament; and this being repeated three or four times, the adventitious wind would rush out, bringing the noxious along with it, (like water put into a pump), and the patient recovered.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A manometer worked by compressed air, an instrument used to ascertain the upper atmospheric pressure on the level of the ocean.
-- [1] [1] Thermometer (thermos, and metron, measure); an instrument for measuring the temperature of the air.--Manometer (manos,and metron, measure); an instrument to show the density or rarity of gases.--Chronometer (chronos.
-- time, and metros, measure) a time measurer, or superior watcg--Ruhmkorff's coil, an instrument for producing currents of induced electricity of great intensity.
-- I looked at the instrument with care.
-- Ha, ha!but for this little instrument we might make a mistake, and run the risk of coming out at the antipodes!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As there truly was no reason why he should have the least interest in it, Arthur Clennam went on to the present purport of his visit; namely, to make Plornish the instrument of effecting Tip's release, with as little detriment as possible to the self-reliance and self-helpfulness of the young man, supposing him to possess any remnant of those qualities: without doubt a very wide stretch of supposition.
-- The Principal and instrument soon drove off together to a stable-yard in High Holborn, where a remarkably fine grey gelding, worth, at the lowest figure, seventy-five guineas (not taking into account the value of the shot he had been made to swallow for the improvement of his form), was to be parted with for a twenty-pound note, in consequence of his having run away last week with Mrs Captain Barbary of Cheltenham, who wasn't up to a horse of his courage, and who, in mere spite, insisted on selling him for that ridiculous sum: or, in other words, on giving him away.
-- Another remarkable thing in this little old woman was, that the same child seemed to have damaged her face in two or three places with some blunt instrument in the nature of a spoon; her countenance, and particularly the tip of her nose, presenting the phenomena of several dints, generally answering to the bowl of that article.
-- Little Dorrit, as her eyes became used to the darkness, faintly made him out at the bottom of the well, in an obscure corner by himself, with his instrument in its ragged case under his arm.
-- Little jars of tobacco, little boxes of cigars, a little assortment of pipes, a little jar or two of snuff, and a little instrument like a shoeing horn for serving it out, composed the retail stock in trade.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beth took a step forward, and pressed her hands tightly together to keep from clapping them, for this was an irre-sistible temptation, and the thought of practicing on that splendid instrument quite took her breath away.
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