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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There seemed to be scarcely any air even, as though some vast pneumatic machine had rarefied it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do you know, though,' cried the prince warmly, 'you made that remark now, and everyone says the same thing, and the machine is designed with the purpose of avoiding pain, this guillotine I mean; but a thought came into my head then: what if it be a bad plan after all?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then passing to another idea, "Think," said he, "how astounded Jonathan Forster and his companions must have been when, next morning, they found the place empty, and the machine flown away!"
-- "But you have no machine at your disposal."
-- "This machine is not my own invention, and it is frequently employed by the Aleutian hunters in Russian America.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lady of the caravan sat at one window in all the pride and poetry of the musical instruments, and little Nell and her grandfather sat at the other in all the humility of the kettle and saucepans, while the machine jogged on and shifted the darkening prospect very slowly.
-- This ill-used machine being empty (for it had deposited its burden at the place of exhibition, and lingered here until its services were again required) was assigned to the old man as his sleeping-place for the night; and within its wooden walls, Nell made him up the best bed she could, from the materials at hand.
-- But night-time in this dreadful spot! night, when the smoke was changed to fire; when every chimney spirited up its flame; and places, that had been dark vaults all day, now shone red-hot, with figures moving to and fro within their blazing jaws, and calling to one another with hoarse cries night, when the noise of every strange machine was aggravated by the darkness; when the people near them looked wilder and more savage; when bands of unemployed labourers paraded the roads, or clustered by torch-light round their leaders, who told them, in stern language, of their wrongs, and urged them on to frightful cries and threats; when maddened men, armed with sword and firebrand, spurning the tears and prayers of women who would restrain them, rushed forth on errands of terror and destruction, to work no ruin half so surely as their own night, when carts came rumbling by, filled with rude coffins (for contagious disease and death had been busy with the living crops); when orphans cried, and distracted women shrieked and followed in their wake night, when some called for bread, and some for drink to drown their cares, and some with tears, and some with staggering feet, and some with bloodshot eyes, went brooding home night, which, unlike the night that Heaven sends on earth, brought with it no peace, nor quiet, nor signs of blessed sleep who shall tell the terrors of the night to the young wandering child!
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is my plan for a machine to travel through time.
-- Then, when we had all imitated the action of the Medical Man, he said: "Now I want you clearly to understand that this lever, being pressed over, sends the machine gliding into the future, and this other reverses the motion.
-- Presently I am going to press the lever, and off the machine will go.
-- So that it was the Psychologist himself who sent forth the model Time Machine on its interminable voyage.
-- One of the candles on the mantel was blown out, and the little machine suddenly swung round, became indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps, as an eddy of faintly glittering brass and ivory; and it was gone vanished!Save for the lamp the table was bare.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, indeed, unless this shoal had a machine in its stomach, how could it change its position with such astonishing rapidity?
-- That a private gentleman should have such a machine at his command was not likely.
-- But the idea of a war machine fell before the declaration of Governments.
-- It seemed that, at the moment that the enormous narwhal had come to take breath at the surface of the water, the air was engulfed in its lungs, like the steam in the vast cylinders of a machine of two thousand horse-power.
-- I felt or rather fancied I felt the machine sinking down to the lowest beds of the sea.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the machine is the Godhead, and production or work is worship, then the most mechanical mind is purest and highest, the representative of God on earth.
-- He was suspended motionless, in an agony of inertia, like a machine that is without power.
-- He is fulfilling the counterpart of labour the machine works him, instead of he the machine.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As she passed out along the hall after getting her hat, a young machine hand, attracted by her looks, made bold to jest with her.
-- Chapter VI THE MACHINE AND THE MAIDEN--A KNIGHT OF TO-DAY At the flat that evening Carrie felt a new phase of its atmosphere.
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