cut是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 切， 割， 削； 削减， 删节n. 切口， 伤口，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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At one end stood a little village, and at the other the thick jungle came down in a sweep to the grazing-grounds, and stopped there as though it had been cut off with a hoe.
-- 'He swam far down the Waingunga to cut that off,' said Gray Brother.
-- Gray Brother, canst thou cut the herd in two for me?'
-- Cut the herd in two, Akela.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alice hesitated no longer; but giving her Narrangan-sett* a smart cut of the whip, she was the first to dash aside the slight branches of the bushes, and to follow the runner along the dark and tangled pathway.
-- 'Then you must have lost your eyesight afore losing your way, for the road across the portage is cut to a good two rods, and is as grand a path, I calculate, as any that runs into London, or even before the palace of the king himself.'
-- Glancing his eyes around, with a vain effort to pierce the gloom that was thickening beneath the leafy arches of the forest, he felt as if, cut off from human aid, his unresisting companions would soon lie at the entire mercy of those barbarous enemies, who, like beasts of prey, only waited till the gathering darkness might render their blows more fatally certain.
-- muttered the white man, on whom the sole control of their future move-ments appeared to devolve; 'it would be time lost to cut their throats, and cast them into the river; and to leave them here would be to tell the Mingoes that they have not far to seek to find their owners!'
-- It may be as you say,' he continued, reverting to the purport of Heyward's last remark; 'and the greater the reason why we should cut our steaks, and let the carcass drive down the stream, or we shall have the pack howling along the cliffs, begrudging every mouthful we swallow.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter labors of their farms, helped to make hay, mend-ed the fences, took the horses to water, drove the cows from pasture, and cut wood for the winter fire.
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：
-- His hair was reddish, cut very short, and his eyes were small, blue or grey.
-- I was glad that, catching sight of the clock at the Army and Navy Stores, he remembered an engagement to play cards at his club, and so left me to cut across St. James Park.
-- His cordial agreement with all I said cut the ground from under my feet.
-- It was lamentable that one was more amused by the ridiculous figure cut by the Dutchman than outraged by Strickland's brutal treatment of him.
-- I was furious with Strickland, and was indignant with myself, because Dirk Stroeve cut such an absurd figure that I felt inclined to laugh.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the night, in spite of their guards, they might approach the balloon, slip into the car, and then cut the cords which he ld it.
-- It continued thus for a length of three miles, ending suddenly on the right with a precipice which looked as if cut by the hand of man.
-- "We shall find ammunition on our way, and cut our weapons in the forest."
-- Pencroft and his two companions went to different parts of the bank, so as to cut off the retreat of the capybara, which the dog was looking for beneath the water.
-- On the left, the sight extended several miles to the north; but, on the northwest, at the point occupied by the explorers, it was cut short by the ridge of a fantastically-shaped spur, which formed a powerful support of the central cone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such hair as he had was of a grizzled black, cut short and straight upon his temples, and hanging in a frowzy fringe about his ears.
-- Stand upon your head agin, and I'll cut one of your feet off.'
-- A rusty padlock was fastened on the door, ends of discoloured blinds and curtains flapped drearily against the half-opened upper windows, and the crooked holes cut in the closed shutters below, were black with the darkness of the inside.
-- Here the old gentleman got out and helped out the old lady, and then took from under the seat a nosegay resembling in shape and dimensions a full-sized warming-pan with the handle cut short off.
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