machine是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 机器， 机械v. 用机器加工，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：
-- The bailiff came in, and said everything, thank God, was doing well; but informed him that the buckwheat in the new drying machine had been a little scorched.
-- The new drying machine had been constructed and partly invented by Levin.
-- He's not a man, but a machine, and a spiteful machine when he's angry," she added, recalling Alexey Alexandrovitch as she spoke, with all the peculiarities of his figure and manner of speaking, and reckoning against him every defect she could find in him, softening nothing for the great wrong she herself was doing him.
-- And Levin, to turn the conversation, explained to Darya Alexandrovna the theory of cow-keeping, based on the principle that the cow is simply a machine for the transformation of food into milk, and so on.
-- General principles, as to the cow being a machine for the production of milk, she looked on with suspicion.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Phileas Fogg was free!He walked to the detective, looked him steadily in the face, and with the only rapid motion he had ever made in his life, or which he ever would make, drew back his arms, and with the precision of a machine knocked Fix down.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But-- I imagine it's just that argument that's kept almost everybody, all these centuries, from being anything but a machine for digestion and propagation and obedience.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before the war there had been fewcotton factories, woolen mills, arsenals and machine shops south of Maryland a fact of which all Southerners wereproud.
-- In Atlanta, there were machine factories tediously turning out machinery to manufacture war materials tediously,because there were few machines in the South from which they could model and nearly every wheel and cog had to bemade from drawings that came through the blockade from England.
-- Do you recall how the twins wanted to shoot him because he said we had few foundries and factories, mills and ships,arsenals and machine shops?
-- The unravaged statewas a vast granary, machine shop and storehouse for the Confederacy.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seems, that upon the first moment I was discovered sleeping on the ground, after my landing, the emperor had early notice of it by an express; and determined in council, that I should be tied in the manner I have related, (which was done in the night while I slept;) that plenty of meat and drink should be sent to me, and a machine prepared to car-ry me to the capital city.
-- The queen's joiner had contrived in one of Glumdalclitch's rooms, a kind of wooden machine five-and-twenty feet high, formed like a standing ladder; the steps were each fifty feet long.
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：
-- Still!the human existence is a good deal controlled by the machine of external circumstance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The discovery of this Behoving Machine was the discovery of the political perpetual motion.
-- But my course as a professional machine is clear; I have nothing to do with it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boy early developed a mechanical genius which delighted his father and distracted his mother, for he tried to imitate every machine he saw, and kept the nursery in a chaotic condition, with his 'sewinsheen', a mysterious structure of string, chairs, clothespins, and spools, for wheels to go 'wound and wound'.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet, as previously hinted, this omnitooled, open-and-shut carpenter, was, after all, no mere machine of an automaton.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The man that invented the machine for taking likenesses might have known that would never succeed; it's a deal too honest.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This machine cost me a full week's work to bring it to perfection.
-- - These two whole days I took up in grind-ing my tools, my machine for turning my grindstone performing very well.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pieces of leather came from the girl at the machine to her right, and were passed on to the girl at her left.
-- She did not venture to look around, but above the clack of the machine she could hear an occasional remark.
-- She saw no place which did not hold a couple or a group of girls, and being too timid to think of intruding herself, she sought out her machine and, seated upon her stool, opened her lunch on her lap.
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