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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whatever you may say, Paganel, a nest won't do for a man, and you will learn that soon, to your cost."
-- Not a bird built its nest in these aerial skeletons; not a leaf trembled on the dry branches, which rattled together like bones.
-- Fortunately, Robert discovered a bustard's nest with a dozen of large eggs in it, which Olbinett cooked on hot cinders.
-- Robert, searching like a ferret, came upon a nest made of interwoven roots, and in it a pair of birds destitute of wings and tail, with four toes, a long snipe-like beak, and a covering of white feathers over the whole body, singular creatures, which seemed to connect the oviparous tribes with the mammifers.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had made a beautiful nest by pulling two big leaves together and stitching them up the edges with fibers, and had filled the hollow with cotton and downy fluff.
-- The nest swayed to and fro, as they sat on the rim and cried.
-- 'One of our babies fell out of the nest yesterday and Nag ate him.'
-- Darzee and his wife only cowered down in the nest with-out answering, for from the thick grass at the foot of the bush there came a low hiss a horrid cold sound that made Rikki-tikki jump back two clear feet.
-- said Nag, lashing up as high as he could reach toward the nest in the thorn-bush.
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：
-- The cuckoo lays its egg in the strange bird's nest, and when the young one is hatched it shoulders its foster-brothers out and breaks at last the nest that has sheltered it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was not a tree without a nest, and not a nest which was not full of flapping wings.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Frumenty and mince pie,' the Gnat replied; 'and it makes its nest in a Christmas box.'
-- 'In hopes some bees may make a nest in it then I should get the honey.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Mother," said I, "take the whole and let's be going," for I was sure the bolted door must have seemed suspicious and would bring the whole hornet's nest about our ears, though how thankful I was that I had bolted it, none could tell who had never met that terrible blind man.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were the eyes of giant crustacea crouched in their holes; giant lobsters setting themselves up like halberdiers, and moving their claws with the clicking sound of pincers; titanic crabs, pointed like a gun on its carriage; and frightful-looking poulps, interweaving their tentacles like a living nest of serpents.
-- It served as nest and food for myriads of crustacea and molluscs, crabs, and cuttlefish.
-- "Its head," rejoined Conseil, "was it not crowned with eight tentacles, that beat the water like a nest of serpents?"
-- We rolled pell-mell into the midst of this nest of serpents, that wriggled on the platform in the waves of blood and ink.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His meals were interrupted by the frequent flight of the pre-siding genius, who deserted him, half-helped, if a muffled chirp sounded from the nest above.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though, upon the whole, I greatly admire and even love the brave, the honest, and learned Captain; yet I take it very ill of him that he should so utterly ignore that case-bottle, seeing what a faithful friend and comforter it must have been, while with mittened fingers and hooded head he was studying the mathematics aloft there in that bird's nest within three or four perches of the pole.
-- A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-colour, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas, as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within reach.
-- Then, again, if you fix your eye upon this strange, crested, comb-like incrustation on the top of the mass this green, barnacled thing, which the Greenlanders call the "crown," and the Southern fishers the "bonnet" of the Right Whale; fixing your eyes solely on this, you would take the head for the trunk of some huge oak, with a bird's nest in its crotch.
-- and with his own hands he rigged a nest of basketed bowlines; and sending a hand aloft, with a single sheaved block, to secure to the main-mast head, he received the two ends of the downward-reeved rope; and attaching one to his basket prepared a pin for the other end, in order to fasten it at the rail.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next, for about a half an hour, I whoops now and then; at last I hears the answer a long ways off, and tries to follow it, but I couldn't do it, and directly I judged I'd got into a nest of towheads, for I had little dim glimpses of them on both sides of me sometimes just a narrow channel between, and some that I couldn't see I knowed was there because I'd hear the wash of the current against the old dead brush and trash that hung over the banks.
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