stool是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 凳子； (pl. ) 大便，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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On a fine autumnal afternoon, Icha-bod, in pensive mood, sat enthroned on the lofty stool from whence he usually watched all the concerns of his little lit-erary realm.
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：
-- Strickland would not go near them, not from any affectation of stoicism, for I found him seated on a three-legged stool when I went into the studio one day and he was alone, but because he did not like them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was sitting in his easy chair one day, and Nell upon a stool beside him, when a man outside the door inquired if he might enter.
-- The good woman was so much alarmed by the sudden apparition of this unknown piece of ugliness, that she hastily caught the baby from its cradle and retreated into the furthest corner of the room; while little Jacob, sitting upon his stool with his hands on his knees, looked full at him in a species of fascination, roaring lustily all the time.
-- When these were done, she took some needle-work from her basket, and sat herself down upon a stool beside the lattice, where the honeysuckle and woodbine entwined their tender stems, and stealing into the room filled it with their delicious breath.
-- It is difficult to understand how, possessed of these combined attractions, she should remain Miss Brass; but whether she had steeled her heart against mankind, or whether those who might have wooed and won her, were deterred by fears that, being learned in the law, she might have too near her fingers' ends those particular statutes which regulate what are familiarly termed actions for breach, certain it is that she was still in a state of celibacy, and still in daily occupation of her old stool opposite to that of her brother Sampson.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hut was quite cosy, panelled with unvarnished deal, having a little rustic table and stool beside her chair, and a carpenter's bench, then a big box, tools, new boards, nails; and many things hung from pegs: axe, hatchet, traps, things in sacks, his coat.
-- She went and sat on the stool in the doorway, watching the man at work.
-- She sat down on a stool in the doorway.
-- He sat on the stool by her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The well-worn wooden stool was 'beyond him,' he complained.
-- When she fell asleep in the little armchair by the high fender, the turnkey would cover her with his pocket-handkerchief; and when she sat in it dressing and undressing a doll which soon came to be unlike dolls on the other side of the lock, and to bear a horrible family resemblance to Mrs Bangham he would contemplate her from the top of his stool with exceeding gentleness.
-- He put this second one so perseveringly that a stool and twelve shillings a week were at last found for Tip in the office of an attorney in a great National Palladium called the Palace Court; at that time one of a considerable list of everlasting bulwarks to the dignity and safety of Albion, whose places know them no more.
-- Pending whose appearance, she showed to great advantage on a sofa, completing Mr Sparkler's conquest with some remarks upon Dante known to that gentleman as an eccentric man in the nature of an Old File, who used to put leaves round his head, and sit upon a stool for some unaccountable purpose, outside the cathedral at Florence.
-- It had long been customary, as she never changed her room, for those who had anything to say to her apart, to wheel her to her desk; where she sat, usually with the back of her chair turned towards the rest of the room, and the person who talked with her seated in a corner, on a stool which was always set in that place for that purpose.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But after that morning, he was every day visible to the crew; either standing in his pivot-hole, or seated upon an ivory stool he had; or heavily walking the deck.
-- Lighting the pipe at the binnacle lamp and planting the stool on the weather side of the deck, he sat and smoked.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An old woman, too, had drawn a low stool to the cold hearth, and was sitting beside him.
-- Oliver looked at Sikes, in mute and timid wonder; and drawing a stool to the fire, sat with his aching head upon his hands, scarecely knowing where he was, or what was passing around him.
-- Oliver retained his stool by the fire; Barney wrapped in a blanket, stretched himself on the floor: close outside the fender.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stool she sat on was without a back or foot-rest, and she began to feel uncomfortable.
-- She stood up from her stool and worked that way for a while, but it was a more difficult position.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When we got there she set me down in a split-bottomed chair, and set herself down on a little low stool in front of me, holding both of my hands, and says: 'Now I can have a GOOD look at you; and, laws-a- me, I've been hungry for it a many and a many a time, all these long years, and it's come at last!We been expecting you a couple of days and more.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he no longer had any strength left with which to stand, he sat down on a little stool and put his two feet on the stove to dry them.
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