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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course, his weight shut up the instrument immediately by pushing the different parts one into the other, and so suddenly, that he fell full length on deck, and lay sprawling at the foot of the mainmast.
-- The learned geographer pointed the instrument in the direction indicated, but could see nothing that resembled land.
-- For the first time, too, they saw here the "Lyre" bird, the tail of which resembles in form the graceful instrument of Orpheus.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The telescope, a formidable instrument mounted upon a tripod, stood upon the flat leads of the house.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Moreau, letting the curved instrument fall to his side again.
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：
-- If advice from one who is not older than yourself, but who, having lived most of his time in the wilderness, may be said to have experience beyond his years, will give no offense, you are welcome to my thoughts; and these are, to part with the little tooting instrument in your jacket to the first fool you meet with, and buy some we'pon with the money, if it be only the barrel of a horseman's pistol.
-- Have you so soon forgotten from whom you received the foolish instrument you hold in your hand?'
-- With this ancient instrument of war have I practised much in my youth, and peradventure the skill has not entirely departed from me.'
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：
-- He is no longer an individual, but a thing, an instrument to some purpose foreign to his ego.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'See the cunning brackets to hold candles, and the nice green sild, puckered up, with a gold rose in the middle, and the pretty rack and stool, all complete,' added Meg, opening the instrument and displaying its beauties.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As in decapitating the whale, the operator's instrument is brought close to the spot where an entrance is subsequently forced into the spermaceti magazine; he has, therefore, to be uncommonly heedful, lest a careless, untimely stroke should invade the sanctuary and wastingly let out its invaluable contents.
-- So, swinging his seated form to the roll of the ship, and with his astrological-looking instrument placed to his eye, he remained in that posture for some moments to catch the precise instant when the sun should gain its precise meridian.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a song or two, and before she could reply to the entreaties of several that she would sing again, she was ea-gerly succeeded at the instrument by her sister Mary, who having, in consequence of being the only plain one in the family, worked hard for knowledge and accomplishments, was always impatient for display.
-- Our instrument is a capital one, probably superior to You shall try it some day.
-- Elizabeth received them with all the forbearance of civility, and, at the request of the gentlemen, remained at the instrument till her ladyship's carriage was ready to take them all home.
-- In the next room is a new instrument just come down for her a present from my master; she comes here to-morrow with him.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It need not be wondered at if all these things took me up most part of the third year of my abode here; for it is to be observed that in the intervals of these things I had my new harvest and husbandry to manage; for I reaped my corn in its season, and carried it home as well as I could, and laid it up in the ear, in my large baskets, till I had time to rub it out, for I had no floor to thrash it on, or instrument to thrash it with.
-- I told him it would be very hard that I should be made the instrument of their deliverance, and that they should af-terwards make me their prisoner in New Spain, where an Englishman was certain to be made a sacrifice, what neces-sity or what accident soever brought him thither; and that I had rather be delivered up to the savages, and be devoured alive, than fall into the merciless claws of the priests, and be carried into the Inquisition.
-- In return, I signed the instrument of sale in the form which they sent from Lisbon, and sent it to my old man, who sent me the bills of exchange for thirty-two thousand eight hundred pieces of eight for the estate, reserving the payment of one hundred moidores a year to him (the old man) during his life, and fifty moidores afterwards to his son for his life, which I had promised them, and which the plantation was to make good as a rent-charge.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The instrument was unlocked, every body prepared to be charmed, and Marianne, who sang very well, at their request went through the chief of the songs which Lady Middleton had brought into the family on her marriage, and which perhaps had lain ever since in the same position on the pianoforte, for her ladyship had celebrated that event by giving up music, although by her mother's account, she had played extremely well, and by her own was very fond of it.
-- She played over every favourite song that she had been used to play to Willoughby, every air in which their voices had been oftenest joined, and sat at the instrument gazing on every line of music that he had written out for her, till her heart was so heavy that no farther sadness could be gained; and this nourishment of grief was every day applied.
-- I see her instrument is open."
-- "Marianne can never keep long from that instrument you know, ma'am," said Elinor, endeavouring to smooth away the offence; "and I do not much wonder at it; for it is the very best toned piano-forte I ever heard."
-- She went to it; but the music on which her eye first rested was an opera, procured for her by Willoughby, containing some of their favourite duets, and bearing on its outward leaf her own name in his hand-writing. That would not do. She shook her head, put the music aside, and after running over the keys for a minute, complained of feebleness in her fingers, and closed the instrument again; declaring however with firmness as she did so, that she should in future practice much.
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