dungeon是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 地牢，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he could think himself of so muchuse, one gleam of day might, by possibility, penetrate into thecheerless dungeon of his remaining existence- though his longevityis, at present (to say the least of it), extremely problematical.
-- A crazy oldstaircase I found it to be, feebly lighted on each landing by a club-headed little oil wick, dying away in a little dungeon of dirty glass.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I answered, 'I was an Englishman, drawn by ill fortune into the greatest calamity that ever any creature underwent, and begged, by all that was moving, to be delivered out of the dungeon I was in.'
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After many fruitless attempts to gain admittance to the prison, he found a strongly grated window in an unguarded part of the building, which lighted the dungeon of the unfor-tunate Muhammadan, who, loaded with chains, waited in despair the execution of the barbarous sentence.
-- His blind and aged father and his gentle sister lay in a noisome dungeon while he enjoyed the free air and the society of her whom he loved.
-- I did not participate in these feelings, for to me the walls of a dungeon or a palace were alike hate-ful.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I perceive that people in these regions acquire over people in towns the value that a spider in a dungeon does over a spider in a cottage, to their various occupants; and yet the deepened attraction is not entirely owing to the situation of the looker on.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My mother lives in a most primitive manner down in that dreary red-brick dungeon at Hampton Court,' said Gowan.
-- Here, in dry clothes and scented linen, with sleeked hair, a great ring on each forefinger and a massive show of watch-chain, Mr Blandois waiting for his dinner, lolling on a window-seat with his knees drawn up, looked (for all the difference in the setting of the jewel) fearfully and wonderfully like a certain Monsieur Rigaud who had once so waited for his breakfast, lying on the stone ledge of the iron grating of a cell in a villainous dungeon at Marseilles.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, look at one of them prisoners in the bottom dungeon of the Castle Deef, in the harbor of Marseilles, that dug himself out that way; how long was HE at it, you reckon?'
-- So then we went away and went to Tthe rubbage-pile in the back yard, where they keep the old boots, and rags, and pieces of bottles, and wore-out tin things, and all such truck, and scratched around and found an old tin washpan, and stopped up the holes as well as we could, to bake the pie in, and took it down cellar and stole it full of flour and started for breakfast, and found a couple of shingle-nails that Tom said would be handy for a prison- er to scrabble his name and sorrows on the dungeon walls with, and dropped one of them in Aunt Sally's apron-pocket which was hanging on a chair, and t'other we stuck in the band of Uncle Silas's hat, which was on the bureau, because we heard the chil- dren say their pa and ma was going to the runaway nigger's house this morning, and then went to break- fast, and Tom dropped the pewter spoon in Uncle Silas's coat-pocket, and Aunt Sally wasn't come yet, so we had to wait a little while.
扩展阅读：暂无