trunk是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 树干, (人) 躯干, 大衣箱，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Women like her should never have children, but Anyway, you pack Miss Pitty's trunk and sendher to Macon.
-- You can't take any trunk in that wagon.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Readily,' answered the little man; 'take you the trunk on your shoul-ders, and I will raise up the branches and twigs; after all, they are the heaviest.'
-- The giant took the trunk on his shoul-der, but the tailor seated himself on a branch, and the giant, who could not look round, had to carry away the whole tree, and the little tailor into the bargain: he behind, was quite merry and happy, and whistled the song: 'Three tailors rode forth from the gate,' as if carrying the tree were child's play.
-- The unicorn ran against the tree with all its strength, and stuck its horn so fast in the trunk that it had not the strength enough to draw it out again, and thus it was caught.
-- There they found a big tree which lay felled on the ground, and close by the trunk something was jumping backwards and forwards in the grass, but they could not make out what it was.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes--not more than a quarter of a mile off, leaning against the trunk of an enormous tree, was a human being--a Proteus of these subterranean regions, a new son of Neptune keeping this innumerable herd of mastodons.
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：
-- Julia is labelled MRS ARNOLD B. HAMMOND just like a trunk on the railway that belongs to somebody.
-- But she had sent on a trunk to her father, who was going by train.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Right or wrong, Rumour was very busy; and Lord Decimus, while he was, or was supposed to be, in stately excogitation of the difficulty, lent her some countenance by taking, on several public occasions, one of those elephantine trots of his through a jungle of overgrown sentences, waving Mr Merdle about on his trunk as Gigantic Enterprise, The Wealth of England, Elasticity, Credit, Capital, Prosperity, and all manner of blessings.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER NINE'I do think it was the most fortunate thing in the world that those children should have the measles just now,' said Meg, one April day, as she stood packing the 'go abroady' trunk in her room, surrounded by her sisters.
-- There now, the trays are ready, and everything in but my ball dress, which I shall leave for Mother to pack,' said Meg, cheering up, as she glanced from the half-filled trunk to the many times pressed and mended white tarlatan, which she called her 'ball dress' with an important air.
-- For two or three hours the sun lay warmly in the high window, show-ing Jo seated on the old sofa, writing busily, with her papers spread out upon a trunk before her, while Scrabble, the pet rat, promenaded the beams overhead, accompanied by his oldest son, a fine young fellow, who was evidently very proud of his whiskers.
-- The big trunk stood ready in the hall, Mother's cloak and bonnet lay on the sofa, and Mother herself sat trying to eat, but look-ing so pale and worn with sleeplessness and anxiety that the girls found it very hard to keep their resolution.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and without wrenching a single twig, peels and grooves out the bark from top to bottom, ere running off into the soil, leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded.
-- And as when Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab's soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom!
-- Then, again, if you fix your eye upon this strange, crested, comb-like incrustation on the top of the mass this green, barnacled thing, which the Greenlanders call the "crown," and the Southern fishers the "bonnet" of the Right Whale; fixing your eyes solely on this, you would take the head for the trunk of some huge oak, with a bird's nest in its crotch.
-- Reckoning the largest sized Sperm Whale's tail to begin at that point of the trunk where it tapers to about the girth of a man, it comprises upon its upper surface alone, an area of at least fifty square feet.
-- On more accounts than one, a pity it is that the whale does not possess this prehensile virtue in his tail; for I have heard of yet another elephant, that when wounded in the fight, curved round his trunk and extracted the dart.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The very last evening was spent there; and her ladyship again inquired minutely into the particulars of their journey, gave them di-rections as to the best method of packing, and was so urgent on the necessity of placing gowns in the only right way, that Maria thought herself obliged, on her return, to undo all the work of the morning, and pack her trunk afresh.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This at length put me upon thinking whether it was not possible to make myself a canoe, or periagua, such as the natives of those climates make, even without tools, or, as I might say, without hands, of the trunk of a great tree.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Her trunk will be here in a day or so," he observed to the landlady, who was very pleased.
-- He ordered Carrie's trunk sent to the depot, where he had it sent by express to New York.
-- Her trunk was gone from its accustomed place.
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