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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "To-day's shooting has cost us dear, and we are short of powder and shot.
-- As long as the powder lasted and the barrier of fire burned on, there was no fear of being overmastered.
-- "In an hour's time," he said, "we shall neither have powder nor fire.
-- About two o'clock, Thalcave flung his last armful of combustibles into the fire, and barely enough powder remained to load a gun five times.
-- "We don't need it," replied McNabbs, exhibiting a powder flask in a perfect state of preservation.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bullet last and the powder first, not the other way, or the pistol won't shoot.
-- Then you pour the powder in, and get hold of a bit of felt from some door, and then shove the bullet in.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had long been observed that in a particularly strong, wet wind the pit-bank burned very vivid, gave off hardly any fumes, and left a fine powder of ash, instead of the slow pink gravel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The footman who opened the door, although he had powder on his head and was backed up by two other footmen likewise powdered, not only admitted Mrs Merdle to be at home, but asked Fanny to walk in.
-- Fanny walked in, taking her sister with her; and they went up-stairs with powder going before and powder stopping behind, and were left in a spacious semicircular drawing-room, one of several drawing-rooms, where there was a parrot on the outside of a golden cage holding on by its beak, with its scaly legs in the air, and putting itself into many strange upside-down postures.
-- They came down-stairs with powder before them and powder behind, the elder sister haughty and the younger sister humbled, and were shut out into unpowdered Harley Street, Cavendish Square.
-- Powder!There was so much Powder in waiting, that it flavoured the dinner.
-- He found her a courtly old lady, formerly a Beauty, and still sufficiently well-favoured to have dispensed with the powder on her nose and a certain impossible bloom under each eye.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Captain Sleet in person stood his mast-head in this crow's-nest of his, he tells us that he always had a rifle with him (also fixed in the rack), together with a powder flask and shot, for the purpose of popping off the stray narwhales, or vagrant sea unicorns infesting those waters; for you cannot successfully shoot at them from the deck owing to the resistance of the water, but to shoot down upon them is a very different thing.
-- Didn't you once say that whatever ship Ahab sails in, that ship should pay something extra on its insurance policy, just as though it were loaded with powder barrels aft and boxes of lucifers forward?
-- Besides, supposing we are loaded with powder barrels aft and lucifers forward; how the devil could the lucifers get afire in this drenching spray here?
-- Aye, aye; and powder in the pan; that's not good.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It happened that he had appointed to go out in this boat, either for pleasure or for fish, with two or three Moors of some distinction in that place, and for whom he had provided extraordinarily, and had, therefore, sent on board the boat overnight a larger store of provisions than ordinary; and had ordered me to get ready three fusees with powder and shot, which were on board his ship, for that they designed some sport of fowling as well as fishing.
-- Another trick I tried upon him, which he innocently came into also: his name was Ismael, which they call Muley, or Moely; so I called to him - 'Moely,' said I, 'our patron's guns are on board the boat; can you not get a little powder and shot?
-- At the same time I had found some powder of my master's in the great cabin, with which I filled one of the large bottles in the case, which was almost empty, pouring what was in it into another; and thus furnished with everything needful, we sailed out of the port to fish.
-- This was game indeed to us, but this was no food; and I was very sorry to lose three charges of powder and shot upon a creature that was good for nothing to us.
-- I knew there were three barrels of powder in the ship, but knew not where our gunner had stowed them; but with much search I found them, two of them dry and good, the third had taken water.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, I says to myself at last, I'm a-going to chance it; I'll up and tell the truth this time, though it does seem most like setting down on a kag of powder and touching it off just to see where you'll go to.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She took a glass of water, put a white powder into it, and, handing it to the Marionette, said lovingly to him: "Drink this, and in a few days you'll be up and well."
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