rope是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 绳， 索，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Across the streets, at wide intervals, one clumsy lamp was slung by a rope and pulley; at night, when the lamplighter had let these down, and lighted, and hoisted them again, a feeble grove of dim wicks swung in a sickly manner overhead, as if they were at sea.
-- Towards that small and ghostly hour, he rose up from his chair, took a key out of his pocket, opened a locked cupboard, and brought forth a sack, a crowbar of convenient size, a rope and chain, and other fishing tackle of that nature.
-- Once, he went aloft, and the rope broke, and they caught him shrieking; twice, he went aloft, and the rope broke, and they caught him shrieking; then, the rope was merciful, and held him, and his head was soon upon a pike, with grass enough in the mouth for all Saint Antoine to dance at the sight of.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bread and the meat were fastened to the Reindeer's back; the little maiden opened the door, called in all the dogs, and then with her knife cut the rope that fas-tened the animal, and said to him, 'Now, off with you; but take good care of the little girl!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Look'ee now, master, once take hold of the rope there's no letting it go!"
-- Why, it's like keeping a condemned criminal for six months with the rope round his neck, promising him perhaps death, perhaps mercy.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I've been an itinerant singer, a circus-rider, when I used to vault like Leotard, and dance on a rope like Blondin.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, I saw him standing alone, in aseaman's frock and trowsers: a rope in his hand, or slung to hiswrist: another round his body: and several of the best men holding,at a little distance, to the latter, which he laid out himself, slackupon the shore, at his feet.
-- Ham watched the sea, standing alone, with the silence ofsuspended breath behind him, and the storm before, until therewas a great retiring wave, when, with a backward glance at thosewho held the rope which was made fast round his body, he dashedin after it, and in a moment was buffeting with the water: risingwith the hills, falling with the valleys, lost beneath the foam; thendrawn again to land.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "These middle-aged men have been pulling her over the coals for pride and vanity," said Mark Clark; "but I say, let her have rope enough.
-- The restless and shadowy figure of a colt wandered about a loose-box at the end, whilst the steady grind of all the eaters was occasionally diversified by the rattle of a rope or the stamp of a foot.
-- Having neither bit nor bridle, Oak and Coggan extemporized the former by passing the rope in each case through the animal's mouth and looping it on the other side.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The table was upturned, and Goriot had doubtless in some way secured a silver plate and cup to the bar before knotting a thick rope round them; he was pulling at this rope with such enormous force that they were being crushed and twisted out of shape; to all appearance he meant to convert the richly wrought metal into ingots.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a warm steaming rain the next day, the defeated army poured through Atlanta by thousands, exhausted byhunger and weariness, depleted by seventy-six days of bat-tie and retreat, their horses starved scarecrows, their cannonand caissons harnessed with odds and ends of rope and strips of rawhide.
-- The windlass creaked slowly as the rope wound up, each creak bringing the bucket nearer the top.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Pumblechook made out, after carefully surveying the premises, that he had first got upon the roof of the forge, and had then got upon the roof of the house, and had then let himself down the kitchen chimney by a rope made of his bedding cut into strips; and as Mr. Pumblechook was very positive and drove his own chaise-cart--over everybody--it was agreed that it must be so.
-- In the Eastern story, the heavy slab that was to fall on the bed of state in the flush of conquest was slowly wrought out of the quarry, the tunnel for the rope to hold it in its place was slowly carried through the leagues of rock, the slab was slowly raised and fitted in the roof, the rope was rove to it and slowly taken through the miles of hollow to the great iron ring.
-- All being made ready with much labor, and the hour come, the sultan was aroused in the dead of the night, and the sharpened axe that was to sever the rope from the great iron ring was put into his hand, and he struck with it, and the rope parted and rushed away, and the ceiling fell.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took a rope and an axe with him, went forth into the forest, and again bade those who were sent with him to wait outside.
-- 'Now, I have got the bird,' said the tailor, and came out from behind the tree and put the rope round its neck, and then with his axe he hewed the horn out of the tree, and when all was ready he led the beast away and took it to the king.
-- 'That was ill done, Hans, you should have put a rope round the goat's neck.'
-- When he gets home, he has the rope in his hand, and there is no longer anything hanging on to it.
-- 'Now you shall be paid for your roguery,' said he; and tied them all three to a rope and took them along with him till he came to a mill and knocked at the window.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have seen him do the summerset several times together, upon a trencher fixed on a rope which is no thicker than a com-mon packthread in England.
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