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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They took the risk of running against one of the ship's officers and being hustled down the gangway with the toe of a boot to speed their going.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have three daughters, Chryso-themis, Laodice, and lphianassa, let him take the one of his choice, freely and without gifts of wooing, to the house of Peleus; I will add such dower to boot as no man ever yet gave his daughter, and will give him seven well established cities, Cardamyle, Enope, and Hire, where there is grass; holy Pherae and the rich meadows of Anthea; Aepea also, and the vine-clad slopes of Pedasus, all near the sea, and on the borders of sandy Pylos.
-- Agamemnon has three daughters, Chrysothemis, Laodice, and Iphianas-sa; you may take the one of your choice, freely and without gifts of wooing, to the house of Peleus; he will add such dower to boot as no man ever yet gave his daughter, and will give you seven well-established cities, Cardamyle, Enope, and Hire where there is grass; holy Pheras and the rich meadows of Anthea; Aepea also, and the vine-clad slopes of Pedasus, all near the sea, and on the borders of sandy Pylos.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I had my hand on the climbing bars now, and, kicking violently, I disengaged myself from the clutches of the Morlocks, and was speedily clambering up the shaft, while they stayed peering and blinking up at me: all but one little wretch who followed me for some way, and well-nigh secured my boot as a trophy.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Generally I have to go in among a lot of yelling, hairy men with knives long shiny knives, worse than the farrier's knives and I have to take care that Dick's boot is just touching the next man's boot without crushing it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Homeward he went therefore; and his apartments (for he still retained the plural fiction) being at no great distance from the office, he was soon seated in his own bed-chamber, where, having pulled off one boot and forgotten the other, he fell into deep cogitation.
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