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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For an in-195stant I dared to shake off my chains and look around me with a free and lofty spirit, but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she departed from her father's house forever, she had left a home whose lines were as beautiful andflowing as a woman's body, as a ship in full sail; a pale pink stucco house built in the French colonial style, set highfrom the ground in a dainty manner, approached by swirling stairs, banistered with wrought iron as delicate as lace; adim, rich house, gracious but aloof.
-- At a distance great enough to keep the smoke away from the guestswere the long pits where the meats cooked and the huge iron wash-pots from which the succulent odors of barbecuesauce and Brunswick stew floated.
-- Orhow few iron foundries there are in the South?
-- The thousands of immigrants who'd be glad to fight for the Yankees for food and a few dollars, the factories, thefoundries, the shipyards, the iron and coal mines all the things we haven't got.
-- She nodded and he carefully handed her down the front steps and led her across the grass to the iron benchbeneath the largest oak in the front yard.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A fearful man, all in coarse gray, with a great iron on his leg.
-- Then, as the marsh winds made the fire glow and flare, I thought I heard the voice outside, of the man with the iron on his leg who had sworn me to secrecy, declaring that he couldn't and wouldn't starve until to-morrow, but must be fed now.
-- I was in mortal terror of the young man who wanted my heart and liver; I was in mortal terror of my interlocutor with the iron leg; I was in mortal terror of myself, from whom an awful promise had been extracted; I had no hope of deliverance through my all-powerful sister, who repulsed me at every turn; I am afraid to think of what I might have done on requirement, in the secrecy of my terror.
-- All this time, I was getting on towards the river; but however fast I went, I couldn't warm my feet, to which the damp cold seemed riveted, as the iron was riveted to the leg of the man I was running to meet.
-- And yet this man was dressed in coarse gray, too, and had a great iron on his leg, and was lame, and hoarse, and cold, and was everything that the other man was; except that he had not the same face, and had a flat broad-brimmed low-crowned felt hat on.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When it was midnight, and the giant thought that the little tailor was lying in a sound sleep, he got up, took a great iron bar, cut through the bed with one blow, and thought he had finished off the grasshopper for good.
-- Then Gretel gave her a push that drove her far into it, and shut the iron door, and fastened the bolt.
-- 'Why, I can get between the iron window-bars of the parson's house, and throw you out whatever you want.'
-- 'Yes, my child,' said the wife, and she gave her a beautiful apple out of the chest; the chest had a very heavy lid and a large iron lock.
-- The water you seek springs from a well in an enchanted castle; and, that you may be able to reach it in safety, I will give you an iron wand and two little loaves of bread; strike the iron door of the castle three times with the wand, and it will open: two hungry lions will be lying down inside gap-ing for their prey, but if you throw them the bread they will let you pass; then hasten on to the well, and take some of the Water of Life before the clock strikes twelve; for if you tarry longer the door will shut upon you for ever.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the large pocket, on the right side of his middle cover' (so I translate the word ranfulo, by which they meant my breeches,) 'we saw a hol-low pillar of iron, about the length of a man, fastened to a strong piece of timber larger than the pillar; and upon one side of the pillar, were huge pieces of iron sticking out, cut into strange figures, which we know not what to make of.
-- 35The next thing he demanded was one of the hollow iron pil-lars; by which he meant my pocket pistols.
-- I trebled the cable to make it stronger, and for the same rea-son I twisted three of the iron bars together, bending the extremities into a hook.
-- This travelling-closet was an exact square, with a window in the middle of three of the squares, and each window was latticed with iron wire on the outside, to pre-vent accidents in long journeys.
-- That a proper quantity of this powder rammed into a hollow tube of brass or iron, according to its bigness, would drive a ball of iron or lead, with such violence and speed, as nothing was able to sus-tain its force.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Iron clamps and girders, fire-proof from top to bottom; mechanical lifts for the housemaids, with all their brushes and brooms; everything that heart could desire.
-- He was also to exhibit 'his astounding feat of throwing seventy-five hundred-weight in rapid succession backhanded over his head, thus forming a fountain of solid iron in mid-air, a feat never before attempted in this or any other country, and which having elicited such rapturous plaudits from enthusiastic throngs it cannot be withdrawn.'
-- For the rest, she knew that after office-hours, she reigned supreme over all the office furniture, and over a locked-up iron room with three locks, against the door of which strong chamber the light porter laid his head every night, on a truckle bed, that disappeared at cockcrow.
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