coal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 煤， 煤块，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There," she said to herself, looking into the shadow of the carriage, at the sand and coal dust which covered the sleepers-- "there, in the very middle, and I will punish him and escape from everyone and from myself."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Half an hour later several members of the Reform came in and drew up to the fireplace, where a coal fire was steadily burning.
-- It is thirteen hundred and ten miles from Suez to Aden, at the other end of the Red Sea, and she has to take in a fresh coal supply."
-- In these distant seas, coal is worth three or four pounds sterling a ton.
-- The Mongolia had still sixteen hundred and fifty miles to traverse before reaching Bombay, and was obliged to remain four hours at Steamer Point to coal up.
-- It was loaded to the muzzle; but just as the pilot was about to apply a red-hot coal to the touchhole, Mr. Fogg said, "Hoist your flag!"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Down a grim street of coal yards, they found a public square, and here was the stillness not of sleep but of ancient death.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was probably a carriage builder's or carpenter's shed; the whole place from the entrance was black with coal dust.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Myopinion of the coal trade on that river, is, that it may require talent,but that it certainly requires capital.
-- During most of this short dialogue, when hehad not been speaking in a wild vivacious manner, he had sat idlybeating on the lump of coal with the poker.
-- I had not seen a coal fire,since I had left England three years ago: though many a wood firehad I watched, as it crumbled into hoary ashes, and mingled withthe feathery heap upon the hearth, which not inaptly figured to me,in my despondency, my own dead hopes.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It glowed on the windward side, rising and falling in intensity, like the coal of a cigar.
-- The maltster being rather short of breath, Mr. Coggan, after absently scrutinising a coal which had fallen among the ashes, took up the narrative, with a private twirl of his eye: "Well, now, you'd hardly believe it, but that man our Miss Everdene's father was one of the ficklest husbands alive, after a while.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The thousands of immigrants who'd be glad to fight for the Yankees for food and a few dollars, the factories, thefoundries, the shipyards, the iron and coal mines all the things we haven't got.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, he took a live coal from the fire with the tongs, and lighted his pipe at it, and then turned round on the hearth-rug with his back to the fire, and went through his favorite action of holding out both his hands for mine.
-- Here were the Leith, Aberdeen, and Glasgow steamers, loading and unloading goods, and looking immensely high out of the water as we passed alongside; here, were colliers by the score and score, with the coal-whippers plunging off stages on deck, as counterweights to measures of coal swinging up, which were then rattled over the side into barges; here, at her moorings was to-morrow's steamer for Rotterdam, of which we took good notice; and here to-morrow's for Hamburg, under whose bowsprit we crossed.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she was emptying the beans into the pan, one dropped without her observing it, and lay on the ground beside a straw, and soon afterwards a burning coal from the fire leapt down to the two.
-- The coal replied: 'I fortunate-ly sprang out of the fire, and if I had not escaped by sheer force, my death would have been certain, I should have been burnt to ashes.'
-- The coal slipped after her, hissed when she got into the water, and breathed her last.
-- Scarcely had he spoken these words when he heard a croaking over his head, and looked up and saw seven ra- vens as black as coal flying round and round.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The spot, as he described it, 'was about the compass of a sil- ver threepence, but in the course of time grew larger, and changed its colour; for at twelve years old it became green, 261so continued till five and twenty, then turned to a deep blue: at five and forty it grew coal black, and as large as an Eng-lish shilling; but never admitted any further alteration.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH By Jules Verne TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 MY UNCLE MAKES A GREAT DISCOVERY CHAPTER 2 THE MYSTERIOUS PARCHMENT CHAPTER 3 AN ASTOUNDING DISCOVERY CHAPTER 4 WE START ON THE JOURNEY CHAPTER 5 FIRST LESSONS IN CLIMBING CHAPTER 6 OUR VOYAGE TO ICELAND CHAPTER 7 CONVERSATION AND DISCOVERY CHAPTER 8 THE EIDER-DOWN HUNTER--OFF AT LAST CHAPTER 9 OUR START--WE MEET WITH ADVENTURES BY THE WAY CHAPTER 10 TRAVELING IN ICELAND CHAPTER 11 WE REACH MOUNT SNEFFELS--THE "REYKIR" CHAPTER 12 THE ASCENT OF MOUNT SNEFFELS CHAPTER 13 THE SHADOW OF SCARTARIS CHAPTER 14 THE REAL JOURNEY COMMENCES CHAPTER 15 WE CONTINUE OUR DESCENT CHAPTER 16 THE EASTERN TUNNEL CHAPTER 17 DEEPER AND DEEPER--THE COAL MINE CHAPTER 18 THE WRONG ROAD!
-- CHAPTER 17 DEEPER AND DEEPER--THE COAL MINE In truth, we were compelled to put ourselves upon rations.
-- We had reached the coal strata of the Central Earth.
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