fortress是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 堡垒， 要塞，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：
-- The wagon, a regular fortress buried in mud, was made the center of the camp, and two men mounted guard round it, who were relieved hour by hour.
-- The clay kept it firmly imbedded in the soil, like a fortress resting on sure foundations.
-- Some days after Colonel Gold carried this fortress at the head of his troops, and that day heard the first shot fired of the native war."
-- Four hundred Maories who were shut up in the fortress of Orakau, besieged by 1,000 English, under Brigadier-General Carey, without water or provisions, refused to surrender, but one day at noon cut their way through the then decimated 40th Regiment, and escaped to the marshes."
-- The fortress was defended by an outer inclosure of strong palisades, fifteen feet high; a second line of stakes; then a fence composed of osiers, with loop-holes, inclosed Verne the inner space, that is the plateau of the "pah," on which were erected the Maori buildings, and about forty huts arranged symmetrically.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They also held Harma, Eilesium, and Erythrae; and they had Eleon, Hyle, and Peteon; Ocalea and the strong fortress of Medeon; Copae, Eutresis, and Thisbe the haunt of doves; Coronea, and the pastures of Haliar-tus; Plataea and Glisas; the fortress of Thebes the less; holy Onchestus with its famous grove of Neptune; Arne rich in vineyards; Midea, sacred Nisa, and Anthedon upon the sea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, there remained a broken country, bold and open, a little village at the bottom of the hill, a broad sweep and rise beyond it, a churchtower, a windmill, a forest for the chase, and a crag with a fortress on it used as a prison.
-- 'I believe that if you were not in disgrace with the Court, and had not been overshadowed by that cloud for years past, a letter de cachet would have sent me to some fortress in-definitely.'
-- Hemmed in here by the massive thickness of walls and arches, the storm within the fortress and without was only audible to them in a dull, subdued way, as if the noise out of which they had come had almost destroyed their sense of hearing.
-- Seven prisoners released, seven gory heads on pikes, the keys of the accursed fortress of the eight strong towers, some discovered letters and other memorials of prisoners of old time, long dead of broken hearts, such, and such like, the loudly echoing footsteps of Saint Antoine escort through the Paris streets in mid-July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.
-- You were a cannoneer that day there, and you were among the first to enter the accursed fortress when it fell.
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：
-- Glen's has a large village; and while William Henry, and even a fortress of later date, are only to be traced as ruins, there is another village on the shores of the Horican.
-- The carelessness engendered by these usages descended even to the war of the Revolution and lost the States the im-portant fortress of Ticonderoga opening a way for the army of Burgoyne into what was then the bosom of the country.
-- Against this assault, the besieged could only oppose the imperfect and hasty preparations of a fortress in the wilderness.
-- While there is hope of succor, this fortress will I defend, though it be to be done with pebbles gathered on the lake shore.
-- The fortress was a smoldering ruin; charred rafters, fragments of exploded artillery, and rent mason-work covering its earthen mounds in confused disorder.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now there was a slight crack in her lips; and that morning, fumbling at dusting--here in the laboratory meant as a fortress against disease--a maid had knocked over a test-tube, which had trickled.
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：
-- On the banks of a broad solitary river stands a Stown, one of the administrative centres of Russia; in the town there is a fortress, in the fortress there is a prison.
-- One of the convicts went with the guard to the fortress to fetch a tool; the other began getting the wood ready and laying it in the kiln.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little servant happening to be entering the fortress with two hot rolls, I passed through the postern and crossed the drawbridge in her company, and so came without announcement into the presence of Wemmick as he was making tea for himself and the Aged.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The youth wandered on, and after some time came to a fortress where he begged for a night's lodging.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a great triumph of skill to gain the former, but a still greater proof of generalship to maintain possession of the latter, for man must battle for his fortress at every door and window.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the most romantic thing I ever saw the river, the bridge of boats, the great fortress opposite, moonlight everywhere, and music fit to melt a heart of stone.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wish the bottom of THIS fortress was solid rock.'
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