twin是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 双的， 成对的， 孪生的n. 孪生子， 双生子，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：
-- A year after his arrival in the country he was naturalized, took service in the Argentine army, and married an Indian girl, who was then nursing twin babies six months old—two boys, be it understood, for the good wife of the Commandant would have never thought of presenting her husband with girls.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- >From this central block rose the twin towers, ancient, crenelated, and pierced with many loopholes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, the other of the two, being angry likewise, struck the man in like manner with his arm; the look and bearing of the brothers were then so exactly alike, that I then first perceived them to be twin brothers.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the twin of the doleful chamber of a German grocer whom he had seen during a consultation a month ago.
-- He sat between the Twin Lights at Chatham, and fumed, "I'm going back and tell Terry and Gottlieb they can go to the devil with their crazy physical chemistry.
-- After dinner he walked with her in the garden and sought to defend himself against he was not quite sure what, till she hinted: "My dear man, you're so apologetic about never being apologetic!If you really must be my twin brother, do me the honor of telling me to go to the devil whenever you want to.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Micawbershook her head, and dropped a pious tear upon the twin whohappened to be in hand.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And here in this new country, safe from the twin perils of the land he had left taxation that ate up crops and barnsand the ever-present threat of sudden confiscation he intended to have them.
-- These twin lines of somber trees were his, his the abandoned lawn, waist high in weeds under white-starredyoung magnolia trees.
-- Through the window Scarlett couldsee the bright riot of the twin lanes of daffodils bordering the graveled driveway and the golden masses of yellowjessamine spreading flowery sprangles modestly to the earth like crinolines.
-- Maybelle Merriwether was pulling off her lovely twin bracelets from above and below her elbows.
-- "Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin goldfish bowls filled to the brim with the clearest green waterand that when the fish swim to the top, as they are doing now, you are devilishly charming?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He turned his eyes on Mr. Jaggers whenever he raised them from the table, and was as dry and distant to me as if there were twin Wemmicks, and this was the wrong one.
-- From my point of view, he was the wrong twin all the time, and only externally like the Wemmick of Walworth.
-- Even when we were groping among Mr. Jaggers's stock of boots for our hats, I felt that the right twin was on his way back; and we had not gone half a dozen yards down Gerrard Street in the Walworth direction, before I found that I was walking arm in arm with the right twin, and that the wrong twin had evaporated into the evening air.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our journey was now in a westerly direction; we had, in fact, swept round the great bay of Faxa, and the twin white summits of Sneffels rose to the clouds at a distance of less than five miles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pet had a twin sister who died when we could just see her eyes exactly like Pet's above the table, as she stood on tiptoe holding by it.'
-- 'You remember my saying that our thoughts had never been able to separate those twin sisters, and that, in our fancy, whatever Pet was, the other was?'
-- If the twin sister who was dead had lived to pass away in the bloom of womanhood, and he had been her husband, the nature of his intercourse with Mr and Mrs Meagles would probably have been just what it was.
-- When Mr Sparkler was admitted to this closing audience, Mr Merdle came creeping in with not much more appearance of arms in his sleeves than if he had been the twin brother of Miss Biffin, and insisted on escorting Mr Dorrit down-stairs.
-- Jeremiah, if you come a-nigh me now, I'll scream to be heard at St Paul's!The person as this man has spoken of, was Jeremiah's own twin brother; and he was here in the dead of the night, on the night when Arthur come home, and Jeremiah with his own hands give him this paper, along with I don't know what more, and he took it away in an iron box Help!Murder!Save me from Jere-mi-ah!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Queequeg was my own inseparable twin brother; nor could I any way get rid of the dangerous liabilities which the hempen bond entailed.
-- Whether it was that Tashtego, that wild Indian, was so heedless and reckless as to let go for a moment his one-handed hold on the great cabled tackles suspending the head; or whether the place where he stood was so treacherous and oozy; or whether the Evil One himself would have it to fall out so, without stating his particular reasons; how it was exactly, there is no telling now; but, on a sudden, as the eightieth or ninetieth bucket came suckingly up my God!poor Tashtego like the twin reciprocating bucket in a veritable well, dropped head-foremost down into this great Tun of Heidelburgh, and with a horrible oily gurgling, went clean out of sight!
-- But ploughed up to the primary rock of the matter, the two great principles laid down in the twin whaling laws previously quoted, and applied and elucidated by Lord Ellenborough in the above cited case; these two laws touching Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish, I say, will, on reflection, be found the fundamentals of all human jurisprudence; for notwithstanding its complicated tracery of sculpture, the Temple of the Law, like the Temple of the Philistines, has but two props to stand on.
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