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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I dance on the hide of Shere Khan, but my heart is very heavy.
-- Matkah taught him to follow the cod and the halibut along the under-sea banks and wrench the rockling out of his hole among the weeds; how to skirt the wrecks lying a hundred fathoms below water and dart like a rifle bullet in at one porthole and out at an-other as the fishes ran; how to dance on the top of the waves when the lightning was racing all over the sky, and wave his flipper politely to the stumpy-tailed Albatross and the Man-of-war Hawk as they went down the wind; how to jump three or four feet clear of the water like a dolphin, flippers close to the side and tail curved; to leave the flying fish alone because they are all bony; to take the shoulder-piece out of a cod at full speed ten fathoms deep, and never to stop and look at a boat or a ship, but particularly a row-boat.
-- That very minute he turned north, swimming steadily, and as he went on he met scores of his mates, all bound for the same place, and they said: 'Greeting, Kotick!This year we are all holluschickie, and we can dance the Fire-dance in the breakers off Lukannon and play on the new grass.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the dance was at an end, Ichabod was attracted to a knot of the sager folks, who, with Old V an Tassel, sat smoking at one end of the piazza, gossiping over former times, and drawing out long stories about the war.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the bar in which Strickland and Nichols sat a mechanical piano was loudly grinding out dance music.
-- Now and then two sailors would get up and dance together.
-- I saw him, with my mind's eye, on the schooner on which he worked, wearing nothing but a pair of dungarees; and at night, when the boat sailed along easily before a light breeze, and the sailors were gathered on the upper deck, while the captain and the supercargo lolled in deck-chairs, smoking their pipes, I saw him dance with another lad, dance wildly, to the wheezy music of the concertina.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You must dance with Miss Cheggs,' said Miss Sophy to Dick Swiviller, after she had herself danced twice with Mr Cheggs and made great show of encouraging his advances.
-- Then, and not until then, Daniel Quilp found himself, all flushed and dishevelled, in the middle of the street, with Mr Richard Swiveller performing a kind of dance round him and requiring to know 'whether he wanted any more?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seeing the glances of Nekhludoff and the young man, the lovers--the convict and the flaxen-haired girl--stretched their clasping hands, threw back their heads, and began to dance in a circle.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember vividly the flickering light, his queer, broad head in silhouette, the dance of the shadows, how we all followed him, puzzled but incredulous, and how there in the laboratory we beheld a larger edition of the little mechanism which we had seen vanish from before our eyes.
-- In part it was a modest cancan, in part a step dance, in part a skirt dance (so far as my tail-coat permitted), and in part original.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when they wake up in the summer, Kitty, they dress themselves all in green, and dance about whenever the wind blows oh, that's very pretty!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some news of the lugger in Kitt's Hole had found its way to Supervisor Dance and set him forth that night in our direction, and to that circumstance my mother and I owed our preservation from death.
-- Mr. Dance stood there, as he said, "like a fish out of water," and all he could do was to dispatch a man to B to warn the cutter.
-- Mr. Dance could make nothing of the scene.
-- Mr. Dance told me to jump down and knock, and Dogger gave me a stirrup to descend by.
-- Here Mr. Dance dismounted, and taking me along with him, was admitted at a word into the house.
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：
-- "The three women will dance together," she said.
-- Orpah, in beautiful oriental clothes, began slowly to dance the death of her husband.
-- He did not know yet how to dance their convulsive, rag-time sort of dancing, but he knew how to begin.
-- It is a tick-tack, tick-tack, a dance of opposites."
-- However, she suddenly began, in a laughing, teasing voice:"My love is a high-born lady "Gudrun, looking as if some invisible chain weighed on her hands and feet, began slowly to dance in the eurythmic manner, pulsing and fluttering rhythmically with her feet, making slower, regular gestures with her hands and arms, now spreading her arms wide, now raising them above her head, now flinging them softly apart, and lifting her face, her feet all the time beating and running to the measure of the song, as if it were some strange incantation, her white, rapt form drifting here and there in a strange impulsive rhapsody, seeming to be lifted on a breeze of incantation, shuddering with strange little runs.
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