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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And I shall still have the iron hull," said the captain in a softer tone.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Above, there were four men to a bedroom, and the beds were iron double-deckers, like a steerage.
-- When the others had gone to bed, when the room was a muck-heap of flung clothing and weary young men snoring in iron bunks, Martin sat at the splintery long pine study-table, worrying.
-- Clif Clawson and he lived in a large room with flowered wallpaper, piles of filthy clothes, iron beds, and cuspidors.
-- Madeline was sitting on the funereal iron bench, her chin in her hands.
-- But in its day it was the proudest inn between Chicago and Pittsburgh; an oriental palace, the entrance a score of brick Moorish arches, the lobby towering from a black and white marble floor, up past gilt iron balconies, to the green, pink, pearl, and amber skylight seven stories above.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wore a full coat and a horribly greasy black satin waistcoat, with no cravat, and his whole face seemed smeared with oil like an iron lock.
-- At the edge of the table stood a smoldering tallow-candle in an iron candlestick.
-- 'I'll show you!Stand off,' Mikolka screamed frantical-ly; he threw down the shaft, stooped down in the cart and picked up an iron crowbar.
-- Putting the iron which was a little the smaller on the piece of wood, he fas-tened them very firmly, crossing and re-crossing the thread round them; then wrapped them carefully and daintily in clean white paper and tied up the parcel so that it would be very difficult to untie it.
-- The iron strip was added to give weight, so that the woman might not guess the first minute that the 'thing' was made of wood.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was ablack barge, or some other kind of superannuated boat, not far off,high and dry on the ground, with an iron funnel sticking out of itfor a chimney and smoking very cosily; but nothing else in the wayof a habitation that was visible to me.
-- who was busy at her writing-desk, which wascovered with letters and papers, gave me her cold finger-nails, andasked me, in an iron whisper, if I had been measured for mymourning.
-- It looked into a garden, andhad an iron safe let into the wall; so immediately over the mantel-shelf, that I wondered, as I sat down, how the sweeps got round itwhen they swept the chimney.
-- I know Iam; but while the iron is hot, I can strike it vigorously too.
-- When I had closed the door,and followed, with the umbrella in my hand, I found her sitting onthe corner of the fender- it was a low iron one, with two flat bars attop to stand plates upon- in the shadow of the boiler, swayingherself backwards and forwards, and chafing her hands upon herknees like a person in pain.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having arranged all these matters, looked them through, and put them all to rights, she was just turning to the house with spirits freshened up for the demands of the two lit-tle boys, as well as of their grandpapa, when the great iron sweep-gate opened, and two persons entered whom she had never less expected to see together Frank Churchill, with Harriet leaning on his arm actually Harriet! A moment sufficed to convince her that something extraordinary had happened.
-- Harriet looked white and frightened, and he was trying to cheer her. The iron gates and the front-door were not twenty yards asunder; they were all three soon in the hall, and Harriet immediately sinking into a chair fainted away.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A rusty patch immediately upon the verse, caused by previous pressure of an iron substance thereon, told that this was not the first time the old volume had been used for the purpose.
-- That's turned into a solid iron pump with a large stone trough, and all complete."
-- He had stuck his ricking-rod, or poniard, as it was indifferently called a long iron lance, polished by handling into the stack, used to support the sheaves instead of the support called a groom used on houses.
-- My constitution is an iron one."
-- These owners of the two most appreciative throats in the neighbourhood, within the pale of respectability, were now sitting face to face over a three-legged circular table, having an iron rim to keep cups and pots from being accidentally elbowed off; they might have been said to resemble the setting sun and the full moon shining vis-脙聽-vis across the globe.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the side of the house there are but two windows on each floor, and the lowest of all are adorned with a heavy iron grating.
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