dance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 舞(蹈) ； 舞曲， 舞会v. 跳舞； 跳动，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to enter-tain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That exactly in the ratio as they worked long and monotonously, the craving grew within them for some physical relief some relaxation, encouraging good humour and good spirits, and giving them a vent some recognized holiday, though it were but for an honest dance to a stirring band of music some occasional light pie in which even M'Choakumchild had no finger which craving must and would be satisfied aright, or must and would inevitably go wrong, until the laws of the Creation were repealed?
-- The father of one of the families was in the habit of balancing the father of another of the families on the top of a great pole; the father of a third family often made a pyramid of both those fathers, with Master Kidderminster for the apex, and himself for the base; all the fathers could dance upon rolling casks, stand upon bottles, catch knives and balls, twirl hand-basins, ride upon anything, jump over everything, and stick at nothing.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was, in fact, fighting against an insurmountable difficulty; my brain was almost on fire; my eyes were strained with staring at the parchment; the whole absurd collection of letters appeared to dance before my vision in a number of black little groups.
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：
-- The talk was much more desultory than when only the cronies were there, and everybody was a bit bored, for the weather was bad, and there was only billiards, and the pianola to dance to.
-- The serious ones dress up in evening clothes and go off to the Pally to show off before a lot of girls and dance these new Charlestons and what not.
-- She slipped on her rubber shoes again and ran out with a wild little laugh, holding up her breasts to the heavy rain and spreading her arms, and running blurred in the rain with the eurhythmic dance movements she had learned so long ago in Dresden.
-- If the men wore scar-let trousers as I said, they wouldn't think so much of money: if they could dance and hop and skip, and sing and swagger and be handsome, they could do with very little cash.
-- They ought to learn to be naked and handsome, and to sing in a mass and dance the old group dances, and carve the stools they sit on, and embroider their own emblems.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now, after all, the last of the Patriarchs coolly walked into the parlour, saying in effect, 'Be good enough to throw it down and dance upon it.
-- And thus she sat at the gate, as it were alone; looking up at the stars, and seeing the clouds pass over them in their wild flight which was the dance at Little Dorrit's party.
-- The sisters rose at the same time, and they all stood near the cage of the parrot, as he tore at a claw-full of biscuit and spat it out, seemed to mock them with a pompous dance of his body without moving his feet, and suddenly turned himself upside down and trailed himself all over the outside of his golden cage, with the aid of his cruel beak and black tongue.
-- cried Affery, driven into a frantic dance by these accumulated considerations, 'if I ain't a-going headlong out of my mind!'
-- She took her sister's hands in hers, and clapped all four hands above her head as she looked in her sister's face laughing:'And the dancer, Amy, that she has quite forgotten the dancer who bore no sort of resemblance to me, and of whom I never remind her, oh dear no! should dance through her life, and dance in her way, to such a tune as would disturb her insolent placidity a little.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gardiner would be happy to see Miss March and Miss Josephine at a little dance on New Year's Eve.'
-- You can't dance without them, and if you don't I should be so mortified.'
-- There's a long hall out there, and we can dance grandly, and no one will see us.
-- I can't dance any-more, but as soon as supper is over, watch for Hannah and tell me the minute she comes.'
-- Poor dear, just wait till I make my fortune, and you shall revel in carriages and ice cream and high-heeled slippers, and po-sies, and red-headed boys to dance with.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (The half of them dance to the tambourine; some go below; some sleep or lie among the coils of rigging.
-- I'll dance over your grave, I will that's the bitterest threat of your night-women, that beat head-winds round corners.
-- Dance on, lads, you're young; I was once.
-- About this time yes, it is his noon nap now the boy vivaciously wakes; sits up in bed; and his mother tells him of me, of cannibal old me; how I am abroad upon the deep, but will yet come back to dance him again."
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lydia, my love, though you ARE the youngest, I dare say Mr. Bingley will dance with you at the next ball.'
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