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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was neither like the densely-packed woods choked up with brambles, nor the virgin forest barricaded with the trunks of fallen trees, and overgrown with inextricable tangles of creepers, where only iron and fire could open up a track.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the great old-fashioned fireplace be-hind the high iron dogs a log-fire crackled and snapped.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just that instant when you place your head on the block and hear the iron grate over your head then that quarter of a second is the most awful of all.
-- There is one point that cannot be forgotten, round which everything else dances and turns about; and because of this point he cannot faint, and this lasts until the very final quarter of a second, when the wretched neck is on the block and the victim listens and waits and KNOWS that's the point, he KNOWS that he is just NOW about to die, and listens for the rasp of the iron over his head.
-- The thaw increased steadily, a warm, unhealthy wind blew through the streets, vehicles splashed through the mud, and the iron shoes of horses and mules rang on the paving stones.
-- On the table was an end of candle in an iron candlestick, and a half-bot-tle of vodka, nearly finished.
-- 'On the table, as in the other room, burned a tallow can-dle-end in an iron candlestick; and on the bed there whined a baby of scarcely three weeks old.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their skins are not stone nor iron that when hit them you do them no harm.
-- Hebe with all speed fitted on the eight-spoked wheels of bronze that were on either side of the iron axle-tree.
-- 'Take me alive,' he cried, 'son of Atreus, and you shall have a full ransom for me: my father is rich and has much treasure of gold, bronze, and wrought iron laid by in his house.
-- The godlike hero Ereuthalion stood forward as their champion, with the armour of King Areithous upon his shoulders Areithous whom men and women had surnamed 'the Mace-man,' because he fought neither with bow nor spear, but broke the battalions of the foe with his iron mace.
-- If I see anyone acting apart and helping either Trojans or Danaans, he shall be beaten inordinately ere he come back again to Olympus; or I will hurl him down into dark Tartarus far into the deepest pit under the earth, where the gates are iron and the floor bronze, as far beneath Hades as heaven is high above the earth, that you may learn how much the mightiest I am among you.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I sat up, and for a time I could not think where this ample apartment, with its counters, its piles of rolled stuff, its heap of quilts and cushions, its iron pillars, might be.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then just overhead came a sound like an iron bedstead being knocked about, and the low angry growling of some large animal.
-- Fastened by chains to the mainmast were a number of grisly staghounds, who now began leaping and barking at me, and by the miz-zen a huge puma was cramped in a little iron cage far too small even to give it turning room.
-- The main entrance to the enclosure we passed; it was a heavy wooden gate, framed in iron and locked, with the cargo of the launch piled outside it, and at the corner we came to a small doorway I had not previ-ously observed.
-- A hammock was slung across the darker corner of the room, and a small unglazed window defended by an iron bar looked out towards the sea.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera the Panther and no man's play-thing, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away.
-- He was ten years old, the eldest son of Big Toomai, and, ac-cording to custom, he would take his father's place on Kala Nag's neck when he grew up, and would handle the heavy iron ankus, the elephant goad, that had been worn smooth by his father, and his grandfather, and his great-grandfa-ther.
-- The moonlight showed it all iron gray, except where some elephants stood upon it, and their shadows were inky black.
-- Once they started and put their ears forward when they heard the chinking of a leg iron in the forest, but it was Pudmini, Petersen Sahib's pet elephant, her chain snapped short off, grunting, snuffling up the hillside.
-- Two Tails stamped his foot till the iron ring on it jin-gled.
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：
-- But the scout, who had placed his chin in his hand, with an ex-pression of cold indifference, gradually suffered his rigid features to relax, until, as verse succeeded verse, he felt his iron nature subdued, while his recollection was carried back to boyhood, when his ears had been accustomed to listen to similar sounds of praise, in the settlements of the colony.
-- The first generous impulse of Duncan was to rush to the rescue of the hapless wretch; but he felt himself bound to the spot by the iron grasp of the immovable scout.
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