nest是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 窝， 巢v. 筑巢，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every little habitation within the great foul nest of one high building that is to say, the room or rooms within every door that opened on the general stair-49case left its own heap of refuse on its own landing, besides flinging other refuse from its own windows.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Istinctively feeling the approach of spring, and knowing that there would be days of rough weather too, she built her nest as best she could, and was in haste at the same time to build it and to learn how to do it.
-- He knew not that she was instinctively aware of this, and preparing herself for this time of terrible toil, did not reproach herself for the moments of carelessness and happiness in her love that she enjoyed now while gaily building her nest for the future.
-- I need only to look at you with him, and I feel happy," she said, and something in the rough familiarity of that with him touched Kitty "Come along with us to look for mushrooms, you will show us the nest places."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He trotted across the room to show a nest of narrow drawers filled with scientific blue-prints.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were a perfect nest of roses; they looked so wholesome andfresh.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Across the valley at Nest Cottage!"
-- Out of this there arose, during the spring succeeding, a talk in the parish that Gabriel Oak was feathering his nest fast.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So they took stock of the hole where the nest lay, and trotted away.
-- Then the willow-wren flew to the bear's hole and cried: 'Growler, you are to come to the nest to my children, and beg their pardon, or else every rib of your body shall be broken.'
-- Three times every day she went to it and cried; and soon a little bird came and built its nest upon the tree, and talked with her, and watched over her, and brought her whatever she wished for.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away by the fervour of this reproach.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the early days of summer, the female of the eider, a pretty sort of duck, builds its nest amid the rocks of the fjords--the name given to all narrow gulfs in Scandinavian countries--with which every part of the island is indented.
-- No sooner has the eider duck made her nest than she lines the inside of it with the softest down from her breast.
-- As, however, his down is not so soft, and has therefore no commercial value, the hunter does not take the trouble to rob him of his nest lining.
-- The nest is accordingly finished, the eggs are laid, the little ones are born, and next year the harvest of eider down is again collected.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then she added: 'Sit down,' and composed herself voluptuously, in a nest of crimson and gold cushions, on an ottoman near the parrot.
-- 'It is quite unnecessary to say to a person of your good sense, wide range of experience, and cultivated feeling,' said Mrs Merdle from her nest of crimson and gold and there put up her glass to refresh her memory as to whom she was addressing, 'that the stage sometimes has a fascination for young men of that class of character.
-- This great and fortunate man had provided that extensive bosom which required so much room to be unfeeling enough in, with a nest of crimson and gold some fifteen years before.
-- Mrs Merdle was at home, and was in her nest of crimson and gold, with the parrot on a neighbouring stem watching her with his head on one side, as if he took her for another splendid parrot of a larger species.
-- Dreadfully worldly all this sounds,' said Mrs Merdle, leaning back in her nest and putting up her glass again, 'does it not?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We have such funny times, and now I can enjoy them, for everyone is so desperately good, it's like living in a nest of turtledoves.
-- Jo liked the prospect and was eager to be gone, for the home nest was growing too narrow for her restless nature and adventurous spirit.
-- Meg is the turtledove, and Amy is like the lark she write about, trying to get up among the clouds, but always dropping down into its nest again.
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