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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The broken place in the iron plates was so perfectly defined that it could not have been more neatly done by a punch.
-- It was clear, then, that the instrument producing the perforation was not of a common stamp and, after having been driven with prodigious strength, and piercing an iron plate/8 inches thick, had withdrawn itself by a backward motion.
-- "As a whaler I have followed many a cetacean, harpooned a great number, and killed several; but, however strong or well-armed they may have been, neither their tails nor their weapons would have been able even to scratch the iron plates of a steamer."
-- exclaimed Ned Land, "they must be made of iron plates eight inches thick, like the armoured frigates."
-- I searched all over the outside for an aperture, a panel, or a manhole, to use a technical expression; but the lines of the iron rivets, solidly driven into the joints of the iron plates, were clear and uniform.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The path on which the sisters walked was black, trodden-in by the feet of the recurrent colliers, and bounded from the field by iron fences; the stile that led again into the road was rubbed shiny by the moleskins of the passing miners.
-- There was a lawn, and flower-beds, and at the boundary an iron fence shutting off the little field or park.
-- The locomotive, as if wanting to see what could be done, put on the brakes, and back came the trucks rebounding on the iron buffers, striking like horrible cymbals, clashing nearer and nearer in frightful strident concussions.
-- Birkin fixed the iron handle of the sluice, and turned it with a wrench.
-- New machinery was brought from America, such as the miners had never seen before, great iron men, as the cutting machines were called, and unusual appliances.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Hindley, threatening him with an iron weight used for weighing potatoes and hay.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards that, as yet, I had only my iron mace.
-- They had never impressed me as being very strong, and I hoped to find my bar of iron not altogether inadequate for the work.
-- Upon my left arm I carried my little one, in my right hand I had my iron bar.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The blind man clung close to me, holding me in one iron fist and leaning almost more of his weight on me than I could carry.
-- Little had been left besides the framework of the house, but in one corner there was a stone slab laid down by way of hearth and an old rusty iron basket to contain the fire.
-- I will confess that I was far too much taken up with what was going on to be of the slightest use as sentry; indeed, I had already deserted my eastern loophole and crept up behind the captain, who had now seated himself on the threshold, with his elbows on his knees, his head in his hands, and his eyes fixed on the water as it bubbled out of the old iron kettle in the sand.
-- The iron fire-basket was carried bodily out by Mr. Trelawney, and the embers smothered among sand.
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