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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Blanche saw that, notwithstanding his moments of passion, Strickland remained aloof, she must have been filled with dismay, and even in those moments I surmise that she realised that to him she was not an individual, but an instrument of pleasure; he was a stranger still, and she tried to bind him to herself with pathetic arts.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But here, not any instrument whatever, not a utensil.
-- It was an instrument of excellent quality, a perfect pocket chronometer, which the reporter had not forgotten to wind up carefully every day.
-- This instrument finished, the engineer returned to the beach, but as it was necessary to take the height of the pole from above a clear horizon, that is, a sea horizon, and as Claw Cape hid the southern horizon, he was obliged to look for a more suitable station.
-- "Shall you not need an instrument similar to the one which you used yesterday?"
-- Cyrus Harding then took the instrument which he had made the evening before, the space between its two legs giving the angular distance between the star Alpha and the horizon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The exhibitor disappeared with all speed behind the drapery; and his partner, stationing himself by the side of the Theatre, surveyed the audience with a remarkable expression of melancholy, which became more remarkable still when he breathed a hornpipe tune into that sweet musical instrument which is popularly termed a mouth-organ, without at all changing the mournful expression of the upper part of his face, though his mouth and chin were, of necessity, in lively spasms.
-- This defeat had its origin in the untoward detection of a new associate young Frederick Trent who thus became the unconscious instrument of their punishment and his own.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bundle was sewn together, and the doctor had to get out his instrument case and cut the stitches with his medical scissors.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was clear, then, that the instrument producing the perforation was not of a common stamp and, after having been driven with prodigious strength, and piercing an iron plate/8 inches thick, had withdrawn itself by a backward motion.
-- It will have the proportions determined by the officers of the Shannon, the instrument required by the perforation of the Scotia, and the power necessary to pierce the hull of the steamer.
-- Whilst taking observations not a muscle moved, the instrument could not have been more motionless in a hand of marble.
-- I say seventy-five fathoms, though I had no instrument by which to judge the distance.
-- The Nautilus remained motionless, the force of its screw subdued by the inclination of its planes: the instrument was propped on the bottom of the oceanic site, and in a few seconds we had obtained a perfect negative.
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：
-- They were not important to him, save as instruments, nor he to them, save as a supreme instrument of control.
-- Her dark, dilated eyes rested on Birkin, as if she could conjure the truth of the future out of him, as out of some instrument of divination.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It expressed, plainer than words could do, the intensest anguish at having made himself the instrument of thwarting his own revenge.
扩展阅读：