powder是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 粉末， 药粉； 火药， 炸药，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：
-- If he needed a King and Queen to restore him, he was fortunate in having his remedy at hand; for, soon the large-faced King and the fair-faced Queen came in their golden coach, attended by the 246 A tale of two citiesshining Bull's Eye of their Court, a glittering multitude of laughing ladies and fine lords; and in jewels and silks and powder and splendour and elegantly spurning figures and handsomely disdainful faces of both sexes, the mender of roads bathed himself, so much to his temporary intoxica-tion, that he cried Long live the King, Long live the Queen, Long live everybody and everything!as if he had never heard of ubiquitous Jacques in his time.
-- As if a train of powder laid from the outermost bound of Saint Antoine Quarter to the wine-shop door, had been sud-denly fired, a fast-spreading murmur came rushing along.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the middle of the wall hung a picture representing a beautiful lady, so young, so glad, but dressed quite as in former times, with clothes that stood quite stiff, and with powder in her hair; she neither said 'thankee, thankee!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 22 The ball was only just beginning as Kitty and her mother walked up the great staircase, flooded with light, and lined with flowers and footmen in powder and red coats.
-- The smoke of the powder hung about the sportsmen, while in the great roomy net of the game bag there were only three light little snipe.
-- The slanting rays of the sun were still hot; his clothes, soaked through with perspiration, stuck to his body; his left boot full of water weighed heavily on his leg and squeaked at every step; the sweat rain in drops down his powder-grimed face, his mouth was full of the bitter taste, his nose of the smell of powder and stagnant water, his ears were ringing with the incessant whir of the snipe; he could not touch the stock of his gun, it was so hot; his heart beat with short, rapid throbs; his hands shook with excitement, and his weary legs stumbled and staggered over the hillocks and in the swamp, but still he walked on and still he shot.
-- In spite of the dirtiness of the hut, which was all muddied by their boots and the filthy dogs licking themselves clean, and the smell of marsh mud and powder that filled the room, and the absence of knives and forks, the party drank their tea and ate their supper with a relish only known to sportsmen.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The powder was taken at once.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It manufactured much of the powder and armsused by the army and most of the cotton and woolen goods.
-- Yes, Governor Brown'sdarlings are likely to smell powder at last, and I imagine most of them will be much surprised.
-- Soon a steady stream of them was established, making theirpainful way into town toward the hospitals, their faces black as negroes' from powder stains, dust and sweat, theirwounds unbandaged, blood drying, flies swarming about them.
-- Scarlett caught sight of Phil Meade andhardly recognized him, so black was his face with powder and grime, so taut with strain and weariness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I knew nothing then of the discoveries that are occasionally made of bodies buried in ancient times, which fall to powder in the moment of being distinctly seen; but, I have often thought since, that she must have looked as if the admission of the natural light of day would have struck her to dust.
-- We came to Richmond all too soon, and our destination there was a house by the green,--a staid old house, where hoops and powder and patches, embroidered coats, rolled stockings, ruffles and swords, had had their court days many a time.
-- It had been his own idea to wear that touch of powder, and I had conceded the powder after overcoming the shorts.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I delivered up both my pistols in the same manner as I had done my scimitar, and then my pouch of powder and bullets; begging him that the for-mer might be kept from fire, for it would kindle with the smallest spark, and blow up his imperial palace into the air.
-- That a proper quantity of this powder rammed into a hollow tube of brass or iron, according to its bigness, would drive a ball of iron or lead, with such violence and speed, as nothing was able to sus-tain its force.
-- That we often put this powder into large hollow balls of iron, and discharged them by an engine into some city we were besieging, which would rip up the pave-ments, tear the houses to pieces, burst and throw splinters on every side, dashing out the brains of all who came near.
-- That I knew the ingredients very well, which were cheap and common; I understood the manner of compounding them, and could direct his workmen how to make those tubes, of a size proportionable to all other things in his majesty's king-dom, and the largest need not be above a hundred feet long; twenty or thirty of which tubes, charged with the proper quantity of powder and balls, would batter down the walls of the strongest town in his dominions in a few hours, or destroy the whole metropolis, if ever it should pretend to dispute his absolute commands.'
-- There 258 Gulliver's Travelsis indeed another custom, which I cannot altogether ap-prove of: when the king has a mind to put any of his nobles to death in a gentle indulgent manner, he commands the floor to be strewed with a certain brown powder of a dead-ly composition, which being licked up, infallibly kills him in twenty-four hours.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If all the powder magazines in the world were to explode together, it would be impossible for us to hear worse noise.
-- It ran about here, there, and everywhere, it clambered up one of the bulwarks of the raft, it leaped upon the sack of provisions, and then finally descended lightly, fell like a football and landed on our powder barrel.
-- The provision of powder had, however, remained intact, after having narrowly escaped blowing us all to atoms in the storm.
-- The slow match we calculated to burn for about ten minutes, more or less, before it reached the chamber in which the great body of powder was confined.
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