ammunition是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 弹药,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:
-- The arsenal was composed of seven carbines and seven revolvers, and could stand a pretty long siege, for they had plenty of ammunition and provisions.
-- The arms and ammunition were piled in a dry corner.
-- Their arms and ammunition were in the hands of the savages, and they would soon have been targets for their own balls.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They plunged forward in the mud, and managed some-how to run their yoke on the pole of an ammunition wagon, where it jammed.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- demanded Hawkeye, sternly; 'Tis a charge of powder saved, and ammunition is as precious now as breath to a worried deer!Freshen the priming of your pistols the midst of the falls is apt to dampen the brimstone and stand firm for a close struggle, while I fire on their rush.'
-- Even Heyward and David were furnished with weapons; nor was ammunition wanting to render them all effectual.
-- No, not of danger; but that we shall have what you may call a brisk push of it, is probable; and it may happen, a brush, a scrim-mage, or some such divarsion, but always where covers are good, and ammunition abundant.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a round score of muskets for the seven of us; the firewood had been built into four piles tables, you might say one about the middle of each side, and on each of these tables some ammunition and four loaded muskets were laid ready to the hand of the defenders.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "We shall find ammunition on our way, and cut our weapons in the forest."
-- "As to that apparatus," replied Harding, "I do not quite see the use of it; and a more complete supply of clothes or more abundant ammunition would have been more valuable to us as well as to any other castaways!"
-- They should, then, prepare for the unknown future by husbanding their ammunition and by substituting for it some easily renewable substance.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Many of the men were totally unarmed, for the Confederacy had neither rifles nor ammunition to issue to them.
-- That must be the last of the ammunition trains," Rhett said calmly.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My next care was for some ammunition and arms.
-- and that now I had all these to suf-ficient quantity, and was in a fair way to provide myself in such a manner as to live without my gun, when my ammu-nition was spent: so that I had a tolerable view of subsisting, without any want, as long as I lived; for I considered from the beginning how I would provide for the accidents that might happen, and for the time that was to come, even not only after my ammunition should be spent, but even after my health and strength should decay.
-- But being now in the eleventh year of my residence, and, as I have said, my ammunition growing low, I set myself to study some art to trap and snare the goats, to see whether I could not catch some of them alive; and particularly I want-ed a she-goat great with young.
-- The two muskets I loaded with a brace of slugs each, and four or five smaller bullets, about the size of pistol bullets; and the fowling- piece I load-ed with near a handful of swan-shot of the largest size; I also loaded my pistols with about four bullets each; and, in this posture, well provided with ammunition for a second and third charge, I prepared myself for my expedition.
-- I began now to repose myself, live after my old fashion, and take care of my family affairs; and for a while I lived easy enough, only that I was more vigilant than I used to be, looked out oftener, and did not go abroad so much; and if at any time I did stir with any freedom, it was always to the east part of the island, where I was pretty well satisfied the savages never came, and where I could go without so many precautions, and such a load of arms and ammunition as I always carried with me if I went the other way.
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