boot是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 靴； (汽车后部的) 行李箱； [the-，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I confess that I share Dr. Mortimer's belief that it will not be long before the missing boot is found.'
-- His face was flushed with anger, and he held an old and dusty boot in one of his hands.
-- By thunder, if that chap can't find my missing boot there will be trouble.
-- 'Well, either that boot comes back before sundown or I'll see the manager and tell him that I go right straight out of this hotel.'
-- We had risen to depart when Baskerville gave a cry, of triumph, and diving into one of the corners of the room he drew a brown boot from under a cabinet.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'However, it's true enough that my father died a month ago, and that here am I returning from Pskoff, a month after, with hardly a boot to my foot.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After hailing the mom with this second salutation, he threw a boot at the woman as a third.
-- His indifference to fire was sufficiently remarkable toelicit a word of remonstrance from Mr. Lorry; his boot was still upon the hot embers of the flaming log, when it had broken under the weight of his foot.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The slanting rays of the sun were still hot; his clothes, soaked through with perspiration, stuck to his body; his left boot full of water weighed heavily on his leg and squeaked at every step; the sweat rain in drops down his powder-grimed face, his mouth was full of the bitter taste, his nose of the smell of powder and stagnant water, his ears were ringing with the incessant whir of the snipe; he could not touch the stock of his gun, it was so hot; his heart beat with short, rapid throbs; his hands shook with excitement, and his weary legs stumbled and staggered over the hillocks and in the swamp, but still he walked on and still he shot.
-- When he got on to dry ground he sat down, pulled off his boot and emptied it, then walked to the marsh, drank some stagnant-tasting water, moistened his burning hot gun, and washed his face and hands.
-- said the soldier, succeeding at last in pulling the soaked boot off the blackened stocking.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He says there ain'ta bit of the original boot left, and he wonders you expect it.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Elton, I must beg leave to stop at your house, and ask your housekeeper for a bit of ribband or string, or any thing just to keep my boot on.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ButFairhill was a difficult plantation to manage and spare time hard to get, and more often than not Nellie walked up anddown riderless hour after hour, while Beatrice Tarleton went through the day with the skirt of her habit absently loopedover her arm and six inches of shining boot showing below it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On this particular evening the urgency of my case demanded a pint of this mixture, which was poured down my throat, for my greater comfort, while Mrs. Joe held my head under her arm, as a boot would be held in a bootjack.
-- My little portmanteau was in the boot under my feet; I had but to turn a hinge to get it out; I threw it down before me, got down after it, and was left at the first lamp on the first stones of the town pavement.
-- He put a foot up to the bars, to dry and warm it, and the wet boot began to steam; but, he neither looked at it, nor at the fire, but steadily looked at me.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Jo, losing her temper when she had upset an inkstand, broken both boot lacings, and sat down upon her hat.
-- Sitting on the floor with one boot on, Amy began to cry and Meg to reason with her, when Laurie called from below, and the two girls hurried down, leaving their sister wailing.
-- 'A pair of boot lacings,' returned Jo, guessing and defeat-ing his purpose.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But all in all, taking her from truck to helm, considering the dimensions of the cook's boilers, including his own live parchment boilers; fore and aft, I say, the Samuel Enderby was a jolly ship; of good fare and plenty; fine flip and strong; crack fellows all, and capital from boot heels to hat-band.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, the Dodger trod upon his toes, or ran upon his boot accidently, while Charley Bates stumbled up against him behind; and in that one moment they took from him, with the most extraordinary rapidity, snuff-box, note-case, watch-guard, chain, shirt-pin, pocket-handkerchief, even the spectacle-case.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had one ankle resting on t'other knee; the boot on that foot was busted, and two of his toes stuck through, and he worked them now and then.
-- But it warn't good judgment, because that was the boot that had a couple of his toes leaking out of the front end of it; so now he raised a howl that fairly made a body's hair raise, and down he went in the dirt, and rolled there, and held his toes; and the cussing he done then laid over anything he had ever done previous.
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