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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nell dropped a curtsey, and told him they were poor travellers who sought a shelter for the night which they would gladly pay for, so far as their means allowed.
-- Fearful of taking shelter beneath a tree or hedge, the old man and the child hurried along the high road, hoping to find some house in which they could seek a refuge from the storm, which had now burst forth in earnest, and every moment increased in violence.
-- Have we not been much better and happier without a home to shelter us, than ever we were in that unhappy house, when they were on your mind?'
-- As the child could not endure the intolerable vapours of the cabin, they covered her, in return for her exertions, with some pieces of sail-cloth and ends of tarpaulin, which sufficed to keep her tolerably dry and to shelter her grandfather besides.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The few people that were on the streets sought shelter in the shade of the houses.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I might have consoled myself by imagining the little people had put the mechanism in some shelter for me, had I not felt assured of their physical and intellectual inadequacy.
-- "Well, one very hot morning my fourth, I think as I was seeking shelter from the heat and glare in a colossal ruin near the great house where I slept and fed, there happened this strange thing.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The more we told of our troubles, the more man, woman, and child they clung to the shelter of their houses.
-- All round this they had cleared a wide space, and then the thing was completed by a paling six feet high, without door or opening, too strong to pull down without time and labour and too open to shelter the besiegers.
-- The people in the log-house had them in every way; they stood quiet in shelter and shot the others like partridges.
-- Two had bit the dust, one had fled, four had made good their footing inside our defences, while from the shelter of the woods seven or eight men, each evidently supplied with several muskets, kept up a hot though useless fire on the log-house.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These last words were cowardly on my part; but, up to a certain point, I wished to shelter my dignity as professor, and not give too much cause for laughter to the Americans, who laugh well when they do laugh.
-- I was stretched on the ground, just under the shelter of a bush of algae, when, raising my head, I saw some enormous mass, casting phosphorescent gleams, pass blusteringly by.
-- They were mimosas, figs, hibisci, and palm trees, mingled together in profusion; and under the shelter of their verdant vault grew orchids, leguminous plants, and ferns.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was always Gerald who was protective, offering the warm shelter of his physical strength.
-- The father won shelter from Gerald through compassion.
-- He wanted to shelter her infinitely, infinitely, to wrap her in warmth and love and shelter, perfectly.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I exclaimed, assuming the cheerful; 'and I fear I shall be weather bound for half an hour, if you can afford me shelter during that space.
-- Heathcliff gradually fell back into the shelter of the bed, as I spoke; finally sitting down almost concealed behind it.
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