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：
-- Unable longer to foil an enemy so alert and vigilant, he threw his arms about him, and succeed-ed in pinning the limbs of the other to his side, with an iron grasp, but one that was far too exhausting to himself to continue long.
-- This shot that you see,' added the scout, kicking the harmless iron with his foot, 'has plowed the 'arth in its road from the fort, and we shall hunt for the furrow it has made, when all other signs may fail.
-- The scout, remembering only his own sturdy and iron nature, had probably exacted a task that David, under no circumstances, could have performed.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this enterprise, however, he had more real difficulties than generally fell to the lot of a knight-errant of yore, who seldom had anything but giants, enchanters, fiery dragons, and such like easily conquered adversaries, to contend with and had to make his way mere-ly through gates of iron and brass, and walls of adamant to the castle keep, where the lady of his heart was confined; all which he achieved as easily as a man would carve his way to the centre of a Christmas pie; and then the lady gave him her hand as a matter of course.
-- There was the story of Doffue Martling, a large blue-bearded Dutchman, who had nearly taken a British frigate with an old iron nine-pounder from a mud breastwork, only that his gun burst at the sixth discharge.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lathe painted to look like iron is seen to be but a lathe.
-- She knew what I was talking about, the hussy, and I saw her out of the corner of my eyes listening with all her ears, while she pretended to iron a blouse that she had been washing for me.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The repast at length terminated; at the moment when each one was about to give himself up to sleep, Cyrus Harding drew from his pocket little specimens of different sorts of minerals, and just said, "My friends, this is iron mineral, this a pyrite, this is clay, this is lime, and this is coal.
-- They had no time, since they had to provide for the immediate wants of their existence, and though, profiting by acquired experience, they had nothing to invent, still they had everything to make; their iron and their steel were as yet only in the state of minerals, their earthenware in the state of clay, their linen and their clothes in the state of textile material.
-- Clever, intelligent, indefatigable, robust, with iron health, he knew a little about the work of the forge, and could not fail to be very useful in the colony.
-- Procure us some iron for the barrels, steel for the hammers, saltpeter.
-- Before anything else could be done it was necessary to make the iron ore, of which the engineer had observed some traces in the northwest part of the island, fit for use by converting it either into iron or into steel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were suits of mail standing like ghosts in armour here and there, fantastic carvings brought from monkish cloisters, rusty weapons of various kinds, distorted figures in china and wood and iron and ivory: tapestry and strange furniture that might have been designed in dreams.
-- The dwarf watched him sharply, while he passed into the little sitting-room and locked it in an iron safe above the chimney-piece; and after musing for a short space, prepared to take his leave, observing that unless he made good haste, Mrs Quilp would certainly be in fits on his return.
-- On the Surrey side of the river was a small rat-infested dreary yard called 'Quilp's Wharf,' in which were a little wooden counting-house burrowing all awry in the dust as if it had fallen from the clouds and ploughed into the ground; a few fragments of rusty anchors; several large iron rings; some piles of rotten wood; and two or three heaps of old sheet copper, crumpled, cracked, and battered.
-- 'You dog,' snarled Quilp, 'I'll beat you with an iron rod, I'll scratch you with a rusty nail, I'll pinch your eyes, if you talk to me I will.'
-- Mrs Nubbles ironed away in silence for a minute or two, and coming to the fireplace for another iron, glanced stealthily at Kit while she rubbed it on a board and dusted it with a duster, but said nothing until she had returned to her table again: when, holding the iron at an alarmingly short distance from her cheek, to test its temperature, and looking round with a smile, she observed:'I know what some people would say, Kit ''Nonsense,' interposed Kit with a perfect apprehension of what was to follow.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prisoners, bearded, clean-shaven, old, young, Russians and foreigners--some with half-shaved heads, and with a clinking of iron fetters, filled the passage with dust, tramping of feet, conversation and a sharp odor of perspiration.
-- Besides these seven women, there were four others who stood near the open windows, their hands resting on the iron gratings, and conversing by signs and shouts with the prisoners whom Maslova had met in the passageway.
-- While Nekhludoff was talking to the student the large iron gate of the prison opened and a uniformed officer with another warden came out.
-- While listening to him, Nekhludoff examined the low cot, with its straw mattress, the window, with its thick iron bars, the damp, plastered walls, the pitiful face and the figure of the unfortunate, mutilated peasant in bast shoes and prison coat, and he became sad; he would not believe that what this kind-hearted man told him was true.
-- Nekhludoff quickly raised himself, rubbing his eyes, and the incidents of the morning passed before his mind's eye--the procession of the convicts, the men who had died from the heat, the grated windows of the cars, and the women huddled behind them, one of whom was laboring in child-birth without aid, and another piteously smiling to him from behind the iron grating.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As yet my iron crowbar was the most helpful thing I had chanced upon.
-- I could not carry both, however, and my bar of iron promised best against the bronze gates.
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