iron是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 铁， 铁制品， 烙铁， 熨斗v. 熨(衣) ， 熨平，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scrooge glanced about him on the floor, in the expecta-tion of finding himself surrounded by some fifty or sixty fathoms of iron cable: but he could see nothing.
-- He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step.
-- Alas for Tiny Tim, he bore a little crutch, and had his limbs supported by an iron frame.
-- Upon the floor within, were piled up heaps of rusty keys, nails, chains, hinges, files, scales, weights, and refuse iron of all kinds.
-- He joined it once again, and wondering why and whither he had gone, accompanied it until they reached an iron gate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After bursting open a door of idiotic obstinacy with a weak rattle in its throat, you fell into Tellson's down two steps, and came to your senses in a miserable little shop, with two little counters, where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the din-giest of windows, which were always under a shower-bath of mud from Fleet-street, and which were made the dingi-er by their own iron bars proper, and the heavy shadow of Temple Bar.
-- 'Where does my father get all that iron rust from?
-- He don't get no iron rust here!'
-- The lights were nearly all extinguished in the passages, the iron gates were be-ing closed with a jar and a rattle, and the dismal place was deserted until to-morrow morning's interest of gallows, pil-lory, whipping-post, and branding-iron, should repeople it.
-- So, he pushed open the door with the weak rattle in its throat, stumbled down the two steps, got past the two ancient cashiers, and shouldered himself into the musty back closet where Mr. Lorry sat at great books ruled for fig-ures, with perpendicular iron bars to his window as if that were ruled for figures too, and everything under the clouds were a sum.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sat lifeless on the steps: the morning-star,* that is to say, the heavy wooden staff, headed with iron spikes, and which had nothing else in common with its sparkling brother in the sky, had glided from his hand; while his eyes were fixed with glassy stare on the moon, looking for the good old fellow of a spirit which still haunted it.
-- The extensive building is separated from the street by a pretty high railing, the thick iron bars of which are so far apart, that in all seriousness, it is said, some very thin fel-low had of a night occasionally squeezed himself through to go and pay his little visits in the town.
-- And he now re-membered the important event of the evening before, how 46 Andersen's Fairy Taleshis head had got jammed in between the iron railings of the hospital.
-- The iron railings look just like the door to an old family vault, and then they have brass tops that's so stupid!'
-- And the brass balls on the iron railings shone much brighter than ever; one would have thought they were pol-ished on account of the visit; and it was as if the carved-out trumpeters-for there were trumpeters, who stood in tulips, carved out on the door blew with all their might, their cheeks appeared so much rounder than before.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He pointed to some sort of iron bars, fastened together with strings, lying in a corner of the room.
-- At that moment the wind, as it were, surmounting all obstacles, sent the snow flying from the carriage roofs, and clanked some sheet of iron it had torn off, while the hoarse whistle of the engine roared in front, plaintively and gloomily.
-- At the steps there stood a trap tightly covered with iron and leather, with a sleek horse tightly harnessed with broad collar-straps.
-- He makes the horses ill with too much water, cuts good harness, barters the tires of the wheels for drink, drops bits of iron into the thrashing machine, so as to break it.
-- The iron roof, which was not yet painted, shone with dazzling brightness in the sunshine.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The panorama passed before their eyes like a flash, save when the steam concealed it fitfully from the view; the travellers could scarcely discern the fort of Chupenie, twenty miles south-westward from Benares, the ancient stronghold of the rajahs of Behar; or Ghazipur and its famous rose-water factories; or the tomb of Lord Cornwallis, rising on the left bank of the Ganges; the fortified town of Buxar, or Patna, a large manufacturing and trading-place, where is held the principal opium market of India; or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as English as Manchester or Birmingham, with its iron foundries, edgetool factories, and high chimneys puffing clouds of black smoke heavenward.
-- After going about two hundred miles, the travellers at last found themselves on one of those vast plains which extend to the Atlantic, and which nature has made so propitious for laying the iron road.
-- According to the signal-man, it was in a ruinous condition, several of the iron wires being broken; and it was impossible to risk the passage.
-- This mast held an iron stay upon which to hoist a jib-sail.
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