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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'They do say one can dance with those!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Can you not hear him cheering on his whole host to fire our fleet, and bidding them remember that they are not at a dance but in battle?
-- Polymele, daughter of Phylas the graceful dancer, bore him; the mighty slayer of Argos was enamoured of her as he saw her among the singing women at a dance held in honour of Diana the rushing huntress of the golden arrows; he therefore Mercury, giver of all good went with her into an upper chamber, and lay with her in secret, whereon she bore him a noble son Eudorus, singularly fleet of foot and in fight valiant.
-- The girls were crowned with garlands, while the young men had daggers of gold that hung by silver baldrics; sometimes they would dance deftly in a ring with merry twinkling feet, as it were a potter sitting at his work and making trial of his wheel to see whether it will run, and sometimes they would go all in line with one another, and much people was gathered joyously about the green.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The chair and bed seemed to be executing a dance of triumph for a moment, and then abruptly everything was still.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a quick dance of their lithe grey-figured bodies over the clumsy, prostrate figure.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Begins now the dance the Dance of the Hunger of Kaa.
-- The sun makes the rocks dance in the heat, and the herd children hear one kite (nev-er any more) whistling almost out of sight overhead, and they know that if they died, or a cow died, that kite would sweep down, and the next kite miles away would see him drop and follow, and the next, and the next, and almost be-fore they were dead there would be a score of hungry kites come out of nowhere.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth Bennet had been obliged, by the scarcity of gentlemen, to sit down for two dances; and during part of that time, Mr. Darcy had been standing near enough for her to hear a conversation between him and Mr. Bingley, who came from the dance for a few minutes, to press his friend to join it.
-- So high and so conceited that there was no enduring him!He walked here, and he walked there, fancying himself so very great!Not handsome enough to dance with!I wish you had been there, my dear, to have given him one of your set-downs.
-- 'I was very much flattered by his asking me to dance a second time.
-- 'Another time, Lizzy,' said her mother, 'I would not dance with HIM, if I were you.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was settled that there should be a dance in the evening, and that every body should be extremely merry all day long.
-- "Who!why yourselves, and the Careys, and Whitakers to be sure. What!you thought nobody could dance because a certain person that shall be nameless is gone!"
-- In the country, an unpremeditated dance was very allowable; but in London, where the reputation of elegance was more important and less easily attained, it was risking too much for the gratification of a few girls, to have it known that Lady Middleton had given a small dance of eight or nine couple, with two violins, and a mere side-board collation.
-- Never had Marianne been so unwilling to dance in her life, as she was that evening, and never so much fatigued by the exercise.
-- Her second note, which had been written on the morning after the dance at the Middletons', was in these words: I cannot express my disappointment in having missed you the day before yesterday, nor my astonishment at not having received any answer to a note which I sent you above a week ago.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A small job as janitor of a dance hall helped him for a month.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then in an- other village they started a dancing-school; but they didn't know no more how to dance than a kangaroo does; so the first prance they made the general public jumped in and pranced them out of town.
-- By jings, I most slumped through the floor!But there warn't no time to swap knives; the old man grabbed me by the hand and shook, and kept on shak- ing; and all the time how the woman did dance around and laugh and cry; and then how they both did fire off questions about Sid, and Mary, and the rest of the tribe.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first to dance in the hot oil were the mullets, the bass followed, then the whitefish, the flounders, and the anchovies.
-- I am going to teach you to jump and bow, to dance a waltz and a polka, and even to stand on your head."
-- The announcements, posted all around the town, and written in large letters, read thus: GREAT SPECTACLE TONIGHT LEAPS AND EXERCISES BY THE GREAT ARTISTS AND THE FAMOUS HORSES of the COMPANY First Public Appearance of the FAMOUS DONKEY called PINOCCHIO THE STAR OF THE DANCE ---- The Theater will be as Light as Day That night, as you can well imagine, the theater was filled to overflowing one hour before the show was scheduled to start.
-- I was taken to the fair and sold to a Circus Owner, who tried to make me dance and jump through the rings.
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