pile是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 堆， 大量， 大数目v. (up) 堆， 叠， 堆积，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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About a month afterwards he went upstairs into a lum-ber-room to look for some old iron, that he might sell it and raise a little money; and there, instead of his iron, he saw a large pile of gold lying on the floor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been at his loom full half an hour, thinking about this old woman, when, having occasion to move round the loom for its adjustment, he glanced through a window which was in his corner, and saw her still looking up at the pile of building, lost in admiration.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Occasionally he would take it into his head to stop to pick up lumps of rock, and silently pile them up into small heaps, in order that we might not lose our way on our return.
-- I went back to my pile of lava, in a state of silent awe.
-- We opened the provision bag, ate a frugal supper, and each did his best to find a bed amid the pile of stones, dirt, and lava which had accumulated for ages at the bottom of the shaft.
-- I happened to grope out the pile of ropes, ladders, and clothes which we had thrown down; and upon them I stretched myself.
-- We are utterly unprepared for a sea voyage; it is simply madness to think of performing a journey of five hundred leagues upon a wretched pile of beams, with a counterpane for a sail, a paltry stick for a mast, and a tempest to contend with.
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：
-- He had made the hut tidy, put the little table and chair near the fireplace, left a little pile of kindling and small logs, and put the tools and traps away as far as possible, effacing himself.
-- He led her through the wall of prickly trees, that were difficult to come through, to a place where was a little space and a pile of dead boughs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an oblong pile of barrack building, partitioned into squalid houses standing back to back, so that there were no back rooms; environed by a narrow paved yard, hemmed in by high walls duly spiked at top.
-- 'It ain't much,' said the Plasterer, putting a little pile of halfpence in his hand, 'but it's well meant.'
-- They had rested the litter on a pile of paving stones.
-- The venerable inhabitants of that venerable pile seemed, in those times, to be encamped there like a sort of civilised gipsies.
-- Not to obtrude doctrine upon you,' she looked at the rigid pile of hard pale books before her, '(for you go your own way, and the consequences are on your own head), I will say this much: that I shape my course by pilots, strictly by proved and tried pilots, under whom I cannot be shipwrecked can not be and that if I were unmindful of the admonition conveyed in those three letters, I should not be half as chastened as I am.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pile our things on her, while I get off these confounded skates,' cried Laurie, wrapping his coat round Amy, and tugging away at the straps which never seemed so intricate before.
-- she asked, as Beth brought up a pile of snowy muslins, fresh from Hannah's hands.
-- 'Why, you pile up your hands, choose a number, and draw out in turn, and the person who draws at the number has to answer truly any question put by the rest.
-- Beth opened her lips to say something, but could only point to the pile of nicely mended hose which lay on Moth-er's table, showing that even in her last hurried moments she had thought and worked for them.
-- But great plans fermented in her busy brain and ambitious mind, and the old tin kitchen in the garret held a slowly increasing pile of blotted manuscript, which was one day to place the name of March upon the roll of fame.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's.
-- But the Pequod was only making a passage now; not regularly cruising; nearly all whaling preparatives needing supervision the mates were fully competent to, so that there was little or nothing, out of himself, to employ or excite Ahab, now; and thus chase away, for that one interval, the clouds that layer upon layer were piled upon his brow, as ever all clouds choose the loftiest peaks to pile themselves upon.
-- cried Ahab, "aye, Queequeg, the harpoons lie all twisted and wrenched in him; aye, Daggoo, his spout is a big one, like a whole shock of wheat, and white as a pile of our Nantucket wool after the great annual sheep-shearing; aye, Tashtego, and he fan-tails like a split jib in a squall.
-- cried Flask, dancing up and down "What a hump Oh, do pile on the beef lays like a log!Oh!my lads, do spring slap-jacks and quahogs for supper, you know, my lads baked clams and muffins oh, do, do, spring, he's a hundred barreller don't lose him now don't oh, don't! see that Yarman Oh, won't ye pull for your duff, my lads such a sog!such a sogger!Don't ye love sperm?
-- A low advancing hum was soon heard; and then like to the tumultuous masses of block-ice when the great river Hudson breaks up in Spring, the entire host of whales came tumbling upon their inner centre, as if to pile themselves up in one common mountain.
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