log是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 原木, 圆木; v. 把…记入航行日志，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：
-- Down, and up, and head foremost on the steps of the building; now, on his knees; now, on his feet; now, on his back; dragged, and struck at, and stifled by the bunches of grass and straw that were thrust into his face by hundreds of hands; torn, bruised, panting, bleeding, yet always en-treating and beseeching for mercy; now full of vehement agony of action, with a small clear space about him as the people drew one another back that they might see; now, a log of dead wood drawn through a forest of legs; he was hauled to the nearest street corner where one of the fatal lamps swung, and there Madame Defarge let him go as a cat might have done to a mouse and silently and com-posedly looked at him while they made ready, and while he besought her: the women passionately screeching at him all 319the time, and the men sternly calling out to have him killed with grass in his mouth.
-- Mr. Lorry had just finished his dinner, and was sitting before a cheery little log or two of fire perhaps looking into their blaze for the picture of that younger elderly gen-tleman from Tellson's, who had looked into the red coals at the Royal George at Dover, now a good many years ago.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The log indicated a mean speed of between eight and nine miles.
-- By evening, the log showed that two hundred and twenty miles had been accomplished from Hong Kong, and Mr. Fogg might hope that he would be able to reach Yokohama without recording any delay in his journal; in which case, the many misadventures which had overtaken him since he left London would not seriously affect his journey.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IV Dr. Pickerbaugh owned a small log cabin in a scanty grove of oaks among the hillocks north of Nautilus.
-- The following equation accounts quantitatively for the experimental results obtained: u0 lambda log e -- u K = --------------------- E0(epsilon-lambda t1) When Director Holabird saw the paper--Yeo was vicious enough to take it in and ask his opinion-- he said, "Splendid, oh, I say, simply splendid!I've just had the chance to skim through it, old boy, but I shall certainly read it carefully, the first free moment I have."
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The log which was to form the back-brand of the evening fire was the uncleft trunk of a tree, so unwieldy that it could be neither brought nor rolled to its place; and accordingly two men were to be observed dragging and heaving it in by chains and levers as the hour of assembly drew near.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then a large log of wood came and said, 'I am big enough; I will lay myself across the stream, and you shall pass over upon me.'
-- So he laid himself down; but they managed so clumsily, that the log of wood fell in and was carried away by the stream.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this street the merchants and traders live in wooden huts made with beams of wood, painted red--mere log huts, such as you find in the wilds of America.
-- Ever since we had taken our departure from the newly named Port Gretchen, my worthy uncle had directed me to keep a regular log of our day's navigation, with instructions to put down even the most minute particulars, every interesting and curious phenomenon, the direction of the wind, our rate of sailing, the distance we went; in a word, every incident of our extraordinary voyage.
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：
-- Then he rose, went for an old coop, and took it to the chopping log where he was working.
-- But she sat on the log doorstep, under the rustic porch, and snuggled into her own warmth.
-- Still panting with their exertions, each wrapped in an army blanket, but the front of the body open to the fire, they sat on a log side by side before the blaze, to get quiet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All people knew (or thought they knew) that he had made himself immensely rich; and, for that reason alone, prostrated themselves before him, more degradedly and less excusably than the darkest savage creeps out of his hole in the ground to propitiate, in some log or reptile, the Deity of his benighted soul.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She shows me all her things, and I don't think she'll mind if I look at this', thought Beth, with a glance at her sister, who lay on the rug, with the tongs beside her, ready to wake up the minute the log fell apart.
-- As she sat with the paper folded between her hands, the charred log fell asunder.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- dashing it to the deck, "no longer will I guide my earthly way by thee; the level ship's compass, and the level dead-reckoning, by log and by line; these shall conduct me, and show me my place on the sea.
-- The Log and Line.
-- While now the fated Pequod had been so long afloat this voyage, the log and line had but very seldom been in use.
-- The wooden reel and angular log attached hung, long untouched, just beneath the railing of the after bulwarks.
-- But heedless of all this, his mood seized Ahab, as he happened to glance upon the reel, not many hours after the magnet scene, and he remembered how his quadrant was no more, and recalled his frantic oath about the level log and line.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This tree I was three days in cutting down, and two more cutting off the boughs, and reducing it to a log or piece of timber.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he watched out for me one day in the spring, and catched me, and took me up the river about three mile in a skiff, and crossed over to the Illinois shore where it was woody and there warn't no houses but an old log hut in a place where the timber was so thick you couldn't find it if you didn't know where it was.
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