bucket是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 水桶, 一桶之量，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《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Glancing, however, into the kitchen and seeing a bucket half full of water on a bench, he bethought him of washing his hands and the axe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 82CHAPTER VII Enlarge My Circle of AcquaintanceI HAD led this life about a month, when the man with the woodenleg began to stump about with a mop and a bucket of water, fromwhich I inferred that preparations were making to receive Mr.Creakle and the boys.
-- After a flight of stairs,it gives me as much trouble to draw every breath I want, as if itwere a bucket of water.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be mentioned that Oak's fob being difficult of access, by reason of its somewhat high situation in the waistband of his trousers (which also lay at a remote height under his waistcoat), the watch was as a necessity pulled out by throwing the body to one side, compressing the mouth and face to a mere mass of ruddy flesh on account of the exertion required, and drawing up the watch by its chain, like a bucket from a well.
-- "Stand here with a bucket of water and keep the cloth wet."
-- The smoke at this corner was stifling, and Clark, a nimble fellow, having been handed a bucket of water, bathed Oak's face and sprinkled him generally, whilst Gabriel, now with a long beech-bough in one hand, in addition to his crook in the other, kept sweeping the stack and dislodging all fiery particles.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Ihear the darkies coming home across the fields at dusk, tired and singing and ready for supper, and the sound of thewindlass as the bucket goes down into the cool well.
-- Betweenthe quarters and the smoked stone foundations, they found the well, and the roof of it still stood with the bucket fardown the well.
-- Between them, they wound up the rope, and when the bucket of cool sparkling water appeared out ofthe dark depths, Scarlett tilted it to her lips and drank with loud sucking noises, spilling the water all over herself.
-- "Untie the knot and take the bucket to the wagon and give them some.
-- The windlass creaked slowly as the rope wound up, each creak bringing the bucket nearer the top.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At night when the young king was sleeping, his wife was to draw the clothes off him and empty the bucket full of cold water with the gud-geons in it over him, so that the little fishes would sprawl about him.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took up twenty waiters in my hand, and placed them on the table: a hundred more attended below on the ground, some with dishes of meat, and some with barrels of wine and other li-quors slung on their shoulders; all which the waiters above drew up, as I wanted, in a very ingenious manner, by certain 73cords, as we draw the bucket up a well in Europe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the bucket was hooked on; and the sobered man and another got in with lights, giving the word 'Lower away!'
-- But, ring after ring was coiled upon the barrel of the windlass safely, and the connecting chains appeared, and finally the bucket with the two men holding on at the sides a sight to make the head swim, and oppress the heart and tenderly supporting between them, slung and tied within, the figure of a poor, crushed, human creature.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These last now hoist the bucket within grasp of the Indian, to whom another person has reached up a very long pole.
-- Inserting this pole into the bucket, Tashtego downward guides the bucket into the Tun, till it entirely disappears; then giving the word to the seamen at the whip, up comes the bucket again, all bubbling like a dairy-maid's pail of new milk.
-- Whether it was that Tashtego, that wild Indian, was so heedless and reckless as to let go for a moment his one-handed hold on the great cabled tackles suspending the head; or whether the place where he stood was so treacherous and oozy; or whether the Evil One himself would have it to fall out so, without stating his particular reasons; how it was exactly, there is no telling now; but, on a sudden, as the eightieth or ninetieth bucket came suckingly up my God!poor Tashtego like the twin reciprocating bucket in a veritable well, dropped head-foremost down into this great Tun of Heidelburgh, and with a horrible oily gurgling, went clean out of sight!
-- "Swing the bucket this way!"
-- yelled the seamen to Daggoo, but with one hand holding on to the heavy tackles, so that if the head should drop, he would still remain suspended; the negro having cleared the foul line, rammed down the bucket into the now collapsed well, meaning that the buried harpooneer should grasp it, and so be hoisted out.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carrie looked about her, after she had drunk a tinful of water from a bucket in one corner, for a place to sit and eat.
-- A boy coming out of a gate with a tin milk bucket gave Hurstwood his first objectionable greeting.
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 took all the coffee and sugar there was, and all the ammunition; I took the wadding; I took the bucket and gourd; I took a dipper and a tin cup, and my old saw and two blankets, and the skillet and the coffee-pot.
-- A rail fence round a two-acre yard; a stile made out of logs sawed off and up-ended in steps, like barrels of a different length, to climb over the fence with, and for the women to stand on when they are going to jump on to a horse; some sickly grass-patches in the big yard, but mostly it was bare and smooth, like an old hat with the nap rubbed off; big double log-house for the white folks hewed logs, with the chinks stopped up with mud or mortar, and these mud-stripes been whitewashed some time or another; round-log kitchen, with a big broad, open but roofed passage joining it to the house; log smoke- house back of the kitchen; three little log nigger-cabins in a row t'other side the smoke-house; one little hut all by itself away down against the back fence, and some outbuildings down a piece the other side; ash- hopper and big kettle to bile soap in by the little hut; bench by the kitchen door, with bucket of water and a gourd; hound asleep there in the sun; more hounds asleep round about; about three shade trees away off in a corner; some currant bushes and gooseberry bushes in one place by the fence; outside of the fence a gar-den and a watermelon patch; then the cotton fields begins, and after the fields the woods.
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