elephant是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (动物) 象，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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Fool that I am!Oh, fat, brown, root-digging fool that I am,' said Baloo, uncoiling himself with a jerk, 'it is true what Hathi the Wild Elephant says: 'To each his own fear'; and they, the Bandar-log, fear Kaa the Rock Snake.
-- All that while the fight with Baloo went on, and the monkeys yelled in the tank round Bagheera, and Mang the Bat, flying to and fro, carried the news of the great battle over the jungle, till even Hathi the Wild Elephant trumpet-ed, and, far away, scattered bands of the Monkey-Folk woke and came leaping along the tree-roads to help their com-rades in the Cold Lairs, and the noise of the fight roused all the day birds for miles round.
-- Kala Nag, which means Black Snake, had served the In-dian Government in every way that an elephant could serve it for forty-seven years, and as he was fully twenty years old when he was caught, that makes him nearly seventy a ripe age for an elephant.
-- So, before he was twenty-five, he gave up being afraid, and so he was the best-loved and the best-looked-after elephant in the service of the Government of India.
-- There he had half killed an insubordinate young elephant who was shirking his fair share of work.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "An elephant!An elephant that belongs to an Indian who lives but a hundred steps from here."
-- Happily, however, for Mr. Fogg, the animal's instruction in this direction had not gone far, and the elephant still preserved his natural gentleness.
-- Yet the offer was an alluring one, for, supposing it took the elephant fifteen hours to reach Allahabad, his owner would receive no less than six hundred pounds sterling.
-- Sir Francis Cromarty took Mr. Fogg aside, and begged him to reflect before he went any further; to which that gentleman replied that he was not in the habit of acting rashly, that a bet of twenty thousand pounds was at stake, that the elephant was absolutely necessary to him, and that he would secure him if he had to pay twenty times his value.
-- The elephant was led out and equipped.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little elephant set thedoor of the parlour open, enabling me to see that, in these latterdays, it was converted into a bedroom for Mr. Omer, who couldnot be easily conveyed upstairs; and then hid her pretty forehead,and tumbled her long hair, against the back of Mr. Omer's chair.
-- 'The elephant butts, you know, sir,' said Mr. Omer, winking, 'whenhe goes at a object.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was completely hidden from view by the bankedgreenery and starry bunting and Scarlett knew that every potted and tubbed plant in town was there, coleus, geranium,hydrangea, oleander, elephant ear even Mrs. Elsing's four treasured rubber plants, which were given posts of honorat the four corners.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.
-- The bell was ringing, and the Serpent was a Serpent of many coils, and the Elephant was getting ready.
-- He wath throw'd a heavy back-fall off a Elephant in a thort of a Pagoda thing ath the Thultan of the Indieth, and he never got the better of it; and thee married a thecond time married a Cheethemonger ath fell in love with her from the front and he'th a Overtheer and makin' a fortun.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked Mrs. Moffat, lumbering in like an elephant in silk and lace.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He has a great pack on him like a peddler; or you might call him the Elephant and Castle whale.
-- If any of the following whales, shall hereafter be caught and marked, then he can readily be incorporated into this System, according to his Folio, Octavo, or Duodecimo magnitude: The Bottle-Nose Whale; the Junk Whale; the Pudding-Headed Whale; the Cape Whale; the Leading Whale; the Cannon Whale; the Scragg Whale; the Coppered Whale; the Elephant Whale; the Iceberg Whale; the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale; etc.
-- It was a sight to see Queequeg seated over against Tashtego, opposing his filed teeth to the Indian's: crosswise to them, Daggoo seated on the floor, for a bench would have brought his hearse-plumed head to the low carlines; at every motion of his colossal limbs, making the low cabin framework to shake, as when an African elephant goes passenger in a ship.
-- Every keel a sunbeam!Hurrah! Here we go like three tin kettles at the tail of a mad cougar!This puts me in mind of fastening to an elephant in a tilbury on a plain makes the wheel-spokes fly, boys, when you fasten to him that way; and there's danger of being pitched out too, when you strike a hill.
-- What tenderness there is in that preliminary touch!Had this tail any prehensile power, I should straightway bethink me of Darmonodes' elephant that so frequented the flower-market, and with low salutations presented nosegays to damsels, and then caressed their zones.
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