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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His first care was to enlarge the bunkers to carry as much coal as possible, for it is difficult to get fresh supplies en route.
-- "Well, then, John," said Glenarvan, "the next question is, have you provisions and coal enough?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A coal mine!"
-- "A coal mine without miners," responded my uncle, a little severely.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But my word, the more ma-chines, the more people, that's what it looks like!They say you can't get the same chemicals out of Tevershall coal as you can out of Stacks Gate, and that's funny, they're not three miles apart.
-- He began to read again his technical works on the coal-mining industry, he studied the government reports, and he read with care the latest things on mining and the chem-istry of coal and of shale which were written in German.
-- At first he thought the solution lay in electricity: convert the coal into electric power.
-- If there were coal under Sandring-ham, I would open a mine on the lawns, and think it first-rate landscape gardening.
-- The iron and the coal had eaten deep into the bodies and souls of the men.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So had he sat many a night, over a coal fire far away; so had she sat, devoted to him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she was a baby, Jo had accidently dropped her into the coal hod, and Amy insisted that the fall had ruined her nose for-ever.
-- It was a People's Course, the lecture on the Pyramids, and Jo rather wondered at the choice of such a subject for such an audience, but took it for granted that some great social evil would be remedied or some great want supplied by un-folding the glories of the Pharaohs to an audience whose thoughts were busy with the price of coal and flour, and whose lives were spent in trying to solve harder riddles than that of the Sphinx.
-- The flights are very long in this tall house, and as I stood waiting at the head of the third one for a little servant girl to lumber up, I saw a gentleman come along behind her, take the heavy hod of coal out of her hand, carry it all the way up, put it down at a door near by, and walk away, saying, with a kind nod and a foreign accent, 'It goes better so.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hold the steak in one hand, and show a live coal to it with the other; that done, dish it; d'ye hear?
-- "I have sat before the dense coal fire and watched it all aglow, full of its tormented flaming life; and I have seen it wane at last, down, down, to dumbest dust.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mouth of this hollow was at the bottom of a great rock, where, by mere accident (I would say, if I did not see abundant reason to ascribe all such things now to Provi-dence), I was cutting down some thick branches of trees to make charcoal; and before I go on I must observe the reason of my making this charcoal, which was this - I was afraid of making a smoke about my habitation, as I said before; and yet I could not live there without baking my bread, cook-ing my meat, &c.; so I contrived to burn some wood here, as I had seen done in England, under turf, till it became chark or dry coal: and then putting the fire out, I preserved the coal to carry home, and perform the other services for which fire was wanting, without danger of smoke.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could see the tall runway and the heap of earth and coal cast out.
-- For one thing, one of her neighbours, a certain Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey, who were possessors of money, made out of the coal business, had done so.
-- C. R. Walker, dry-goods merchant and possessor of at least two hundred thousand dollars, had taken another; a well-known coal merchant had been induced to take the third, and Hurstwood and his friends the fourth.
-- "I owe the coal man."
-- The same day he said: "I think this Italian up here on the corner sells coal at twenty- five cents a bushel.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the road I met two Assassins dressed in black coal sacks, who said to me, 'Your money or your life!'
-- "Not only one penny," answered the Coal Man.
-- answered the Coal Man.
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