shelter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 掩蔽, 遮蔽; 避难所, 隐蔽处，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：
-- In this drenching, shivering state, and worn out with fatigue, they came toward evening to a miserable RANCHO, which could only have been called a shelter by people not very fastidious, and certainly only travelers in extremity would even have entered it; but Glenarvan and his companions had no choice, and were glad enough to burrow in this wretched hovel, though it would have been despised by even a poor Indian of the Pampas.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet may we shelter ourselves in the infinite goodness of Providence, which would not forever punish the innocent beyond that third or fourth generation which is threatened in Holy Writ.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shepherd has roused the brute to fury but cannot defend his flock, so he takes shelter un-der cover of the buildings, while the sheep, panic-stricken on being deserted, are smothered in heaps one on top of the other, and the angry lion leaps out over the sheep-yard wall.
-- Hard by the funeral pyre we will build a barrow that shall be raised from the plain for all in common; near this let us set about build-ing a high wall, to shelter ourselves and our ships, and let it have well-made gates that there may be a way through them for our chariots.
-- Now in the twilight when it was not yet dawn, chosen bands of the Achaeans were gathered round the pyre and built one barrow that was raised in common for all, and hard by this they built a high wall to shelter themselves and their ships; they gave it strong gates that there might be a way through them for their chariots, and close outside it they dug a trench deep and wide, and they planted it within with stakes.
-- Adamas then sought shelter under cover of his men, but Meriones followed after and hit him with a spear midway between the private parts and the navel, where a wound is particualrly painful to wretched mortals.
-- As country peasants set their hounds on to a homed stag or wild goat he has taken shelter under rock or thicket, and they cannot find him, but, lo, a bearded lion whom their shouts have roused stands in their path, and they are in no further humour for the chase even so the Achaeans were still charging on in a body, using their swords and spears pointed at both ends, but when they saw Hector going about among his men they were afraid, and their hearts fell down into their feet.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My sole object was to get shelter from the snow, to get myself covered and warm; then I might hope to plan.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I ran furiously up the slope, over it, then turning eastward along a rocky valley fringed on either side with jungle I ran for perhaps a mile altogether, my chest straining, my heart beating in my ears; and then hearing nothing of Montgomery or his man, and feeling upon the verge of exhaustion, I doubled sharply back towards the beach as I judged, and lay down in the shelter of a canebrake.
-- I guessed the huts were some rough shelter where he and some more of these Beast People lived.
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：
-- Duncan seized the favorable moment to spring to the body of Gamut, which he bore within the shelter of the nar-row chasm that protected the sisters.
-- The young Mohican gave a shout of triumph, and- followed by Duncan, he glided up the acclivity they had descended to the combat, and sought the friendly shelter of the rocks and shrubs.
-- The adventurous Huron raised his head above the shelter of the canoe, and, while it glided swiftly down the stream, he waved his hand, and gave forth the shout, which was the known signal of success.
-- The clamorous noises again rushed down the island; and before Duncan had time to recover from the shock, his fee-ble barrier of brush was scattered to the winds, the cavern was entered at both its extremities, and he and his compan-ions were dragged from their shelter and borne into the day, where they stood surrounded by the whole band of the tri-umphant Hurons.
-- Casting aside their cloaks Munro and Heyward were on their feet while the woods- man was still making his low calls, at the entrance of the rude shelter where they had passed the night.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had abandoned the safe shelter of her husband's protection and the comfortable ease of a well-provided establishment for what she could not but see was an extreme hazard.
-- This was the master of a sailors' boarding-house, a huge mulatto with a heavy fist, who gave the stranded mariner food and shelter till he found him a berth.
-- When I was building my house in the Paumotus I had slept out for weeks on a harder bed than that, with nothing to shelter me but wild shrubs; and as for vermin, my tough skin should be proof against their malice.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Herbert went up to him, and taking his hand, "Sir," said he, "we have found a shelter which will be better than lying here.
-- The steel was struck, the burnt linen caught the sparks of flint, and, under Neb's breath, a crackling fire showed itself in a few minutes under the shelter of the rocks.
-- Neither could the curtain of verdure, which covered three-quarters of the island, be raised to see if it did not shelter some straggling village.
-- In fact, the settlers longed to exchange the insufficient shelter of the Chimneys for this large and healthy retreat, in the midst of solid rock, and sheltered from the water both of the sea and sky.
-- But Herbert, from the height of his observatory, could examine all the yet unknown portion of the island, which might have given shelter to the strangers whose presence they suspected.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His own earnest wish, coupled with the assurance he had received from Quilp, filled him with the belief that she would yet arrive to claim the humble shelter he had offered, and from the death of each day's hope another hope sprung up to live to-morrow.
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