bridle是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 笼子; 束缚vt. 抑制,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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But soon their skins turned cold, for there came a galloping across the moor, and the black mare, dabbled with white froth, went past with trailing bridle and empty saddle.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What Little Toomai liked was to scramble up bridle paths that only an elephant could take; the dip into the val-ley below; the glimpses of the wild elephants browsing miles away; the rush of the frightened pig and peacock under Kala Nag's feet; the blinding warm rains, when all the hills and valleys smoked; the beautiful misty mornings when no-body knew where they would camp that night; the steady, cautious drive of the wild elephants, and the mad rush and blaze and hullabaloo of the last night's drive, when the ele-phants poured into the stockade like boulders in a landslide, found that they could not get out, and flung themselves at the heavy posts only to be driven back by yells and flaring torches and volleys of blank cartridge.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'You say true!Call up your friends, and bridle the horses while I prepare my own companions for the march!'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The next morning the old horse was found without his saddle, and with the bridle under his feet, soberly cropping the grass at his master's gate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was settled that Kit should repair to his new abode on the next day but one, in the morning; and finally, the little old couple, after bestowing a bright half-crown on little Jacob and another on the baby, took their leaves; being escorted as far as the street by their new attendant, who held the obdurate pony by the bridle while they took their seats, and saw them drive away with a lightened heart.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nekhludoff experienced the feeling which a horse must feel when brushed down before the bridle is put on and it is led to be harnessed to the wagon.
-- Her crime consisted in that, when the people of the village she belonged to attempted to stop a recruiting officer who had drafted, illegally, as they thought, her nephew, she was the first to take hold of the bridle of his horse.
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