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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the iron room that this young fellow sleeps outside of, there was never mind how much.
-- Separated from her staircase, all the week, by the length of iron road dividing Coketown from the country house, she yet maintained her cat-like observation of Louisa, through her husband, through her brother, through James Harthouse, through the outsides of letters and packets, through everything animate and inanimate that at any time went near the stairs.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The garden was full of ropes, rope ladders, torches, gourds, iron clamps, crowbars, alpenstocks, and pickaxes--enough to load ten men.
-- Hans, whenever he met with one of these obstacles, advanced with a great show of precaution, sounding the soil with his long iron pole in order to discover fissures and layers of deep soft snow.
-- The piece of iron looked as if it had been crushed between two very hard substances.
-- cried I, with stupefaction, as I examined the bar of iron with more attention.
-- The indentations on the bar of iron are the marks of teeth!What jaws must the owner of such molars be possessed of!Have well then, come upon a monster of unknown species, which still exists within the vast waste of waters--a monster more voracious than a shark, more terrible and bulky than the whale?
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：
-- Some of them simply dreads those iron men, as they call them, those machines for hewing the coal, where men always did it before.
-- For a little while, before the insen-tient iron world and the Mammon of mechanized greed did them both in, her as well as him.
-- At last she decided to take a walk, not towards the wood, but in the opposite direction; she would go to Marehay, through the little iron gate in the other side of the park fence.
-- 'I saw you go across the park to the iron gate, my Lady,' said Mrs Bolton; 'so I thought perhaps you'd called at the Rectory.'
-- It was a world of iron and coal, the cruelty of iron and the smoke of coal, and the endless, endless greed that drove it all.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It received such light as it got through a grating of iron bars fashioned like a pretty large window, by means of which it could be always inspected from the gloomy staircase on which the grating gave.
-- As the captive men were faded and haggard, so the iron was rusty, the stone was slimy, the wood was rotten, the air was faint, the light was dim.
-- Before it, a square court-yard where a shrub or two and a patch of grass were as rank (which is saying much) as the iron railings enclosing them were rusty; behind it, a jumble of roots.
-- There was the large, hard-featured clock on the sideboard, which he used to see bending its figured brows upon him with a savage joy when he was behind-hand with his lessons, and which, when it was wound up once a week with an iron handle, used to sound as if it were growling in ferocious anticipation of the miseries into which it would bring him.
-- It was an iron box some two feet square, which he carried under his arms pretty easily.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being an energetic individual, Mr. Laurence struck while the iron was hot, and before the blighted being recov-ered spirit enough to rebel, they were off.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restless needle sojourning in the body of a man, travelled full forty feet, and at last was found imbedded in the hump.
-- Go and gaze upon the iron emblematical harpoons round yonder lofty mansion, and your question will be answered.
-- They had made a harpooneer of him, and that barbed iron was in lieu of a sceptre now.
-- and taking sharp aim at it, he darted the iron right over old Bildad's broad brim, clean across the ship's decks, and struck the glistening tar spot out of sight.
-- At the period of our arrival at the Island, the heaviest storage of the Pequod had been almost completed; comprising her beef, bread, water, fuel, and iron hoops and staves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Oliver gave this first proof of the free and proper action of his lungs, the patchwork coverlet which was carelessly flung over the iron bedstead, rustled; the pale face of a young woman was raised feebly from the pillow; and a faint voice imperfectly articulated the words, 'Let me see the child, and die.'
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