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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There were a couple of old bullets in the bag which con-tained the pistol, and powder enough in an old flask for two or three charges.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the sheet of glass there are only two surfaces; in the powder the light is reflected or refracted by each grain it passes through, and very little gets right through the powder.
-- And if you will consider only a second, you will see also that the powder of glass might be made to vanish in air, if its refractive index could be made the same as that of air; for then there would be no refraction or reflection as the light passed from glass to air."
-- Paper, for instance, is made up of transparent fibres, and it is white and opaque only for the same reason that a powder of glass is white and opaque.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- GUN BULLOCKS Those heroes in their harnesses avoid a cannon-ball, And what they know of powder upsets them one and all; Then we come into action and tug the guns again Make way there way for the twenty yoke Of the Forty-Pounder train!
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：
-- demanded Hawkeye, sternly; 'Tis a charge of powder saved, and ammunition is as precious now as breath to a worried deer!Freshen the priming of your pistols the midst of the falls is apt to dampen the brimstone and stand firm for a close struggle, while I fire on their rush.'
-- exclaimed the obdurate Hawkeye; 'his death is certain, and we have no powder to spare, for Indian fights sometimes last for days; 'tis their scalps or ours!and God, who made us, has put into our natures the craving to keep the skin on the head.'
-- Uncas, lad, go down to the canoe, and bring up the big horn; it is all the powder we have left, and we shall need it to the last grain, or I am ignorant of the Mingo nature.'
-- For an instant he hung suspended by the rock, and looking about him, with a countenance of peculiar care, he added bitterly, 'Had the powder held out, this disgrace could never have befall-en!'
-- He floated down the stream when the powder was all burned, and when the eyes of the Hurons were behind a cloud.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, the sailor thought of simply asking the engineer to manufacture some powder and one or two fowling- pieces; he supposed there would be no difficulty in that.
-- Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race unhappily."
-- Won't Captain Harding be able to make powder to blow up the mine?
-- Isn't it true, captain, that you will make powder the very day we want it?"
-- Cyrus Harding still recommended them to husband the ammunition, and he took measures to replace the powder and shot which had been found in the box, and which he wished to reserve for the future.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That on the return of said Smelkoff and Maslova to the said hotel, the said Maslova, on the advice of the said servant Kartinkin, administered to the deceased a glass of brandy, in which she put a white powder given her by said Kartinkin.
-- "And how did you give him the powder in the wine?"
-- I took from the table a bottle of feen-champagne, poured into two glasses--for myself and him--threw the powder into his glass and handed it to him.
-- Without denying that Maslova participated in the theft, he insisted that she had no intention of poisoning Smelkoff, but gave him the powder in order to make him sleep.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But any cartridges or powder there may once have been had rotted into dust.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I followed him in, and I remember observing the contrast the neat, bright doctor, with his powder as white as snow and his bright, black eyes and pleasant manners, made with the coltish country folk, and above all, with that filthy, heavy, bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours, sitting, far gone in rum, with his arms on the table.
-- 9 Powder and ArmsHE Hispaniola lay some way out, and we went under the figureheads and round the sterns of many other ships, and their cables sometimes grated underneath our keel, and sometimes swung above us.
-- They are putting the powder and the arms in the fore hold.
-- "You wish us to keep this matter dark and to make a garrison of the stern part of the ship, manned with my friend's own people, and provided with all the arms and powder on board.
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