blood是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 血液， 血； 血统， 血亲； 血气，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Clayton Wild Cats," "Fire Eaters," "North Georgia Hussars," "Zouaves," "TheInland Rifles" (although the Troop was to be armed with pistols, sabers and bowie knives, and not with rifles), "TheClayton Grays," "The Blood and Thunderers," "The Rough and Readys," all had their adherents.
-- She was shiningblack, pure African, devoted to her last drop of blood to the O'Haras, Ellen's mainstay, the despair of her threedaughters, the terror of the other house servants.
-- The red furrows and the gashed red road lost their magical blood color and became plain brown earth.
-- And don't be forgetting that you are half Irish, Miss!Andto anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You would have been disposed of for so many shillings according to the market price of the article, and Dunstable the butcher would have come up to you as you lay in your straw, and he would have whipped you under his left arm, and with his right he would have tucked up his frock to get a penknife from out of his waistcoat-pocket, and he would have shed your blood and had your life.
-- said my convict, wiping blood from his face with his ragged sleeves, and shaking torn hair from his fingers: "I took him!I give him up to you!Mind that!"
-- That, if Joe knew it, and at any subsequent period of our joint domestic life remarked that his beer was flat or thick, the conviction that he suspected tar in it, would bring a rush of blood to my face.
-- I felt that the pale young gentleman's blood was on my head, and that the Law would avenge it.
-- A highly popular murder had been committed, and Mr. Wopsle was imbrued in blood to the eyebrows.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he put him back into the water, and the fish darted straight down to the bottom, and left a long streak of blood behind him on the wave.
-- Now it chanced one day that some blood fell on to the spindle, and as the girl stopped over the well to wash it off, the spindle suddenly sprang out of her hand and fell into the well.
-- So she made the sister go and sit by the well and spin, and the girl pricked her finger and thrust her hand into a thorn-bush, so that she might drop some blood on to the spindle; then she threw it into the well, and jumped in herself.
-- 'I won't sell him at all,' said the father; 'my own flesh and blood is dearer to me than all the silver and gold in the world.'
-- The maiden fetched the magic wand, and she took the dead girl's head and dropped three drops of blood on the ground, one in front of the bed, one in the kitchen, and one on the stairs.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The empress, and young princes of the blood of both sexes, attended by many ladies, sat at some distance in their chairs; but upon the accident that happened to the emperor's horse, they alighted, and came near his person, which I am now going to describe.
-- One day his imperial majesty, being informed of my way of living, desired 'that himself and his royal consort, with the young princes of the blood of both sexes, might have the happiness,' as he was pleased to call it, 'of dining with me.'
-- He fell down at my feet; and the other, seeing the fate of his comrade, made his escape, but not without one good wound on the back, which I gave him as he fled, and made the blood run trickling from him.
-- 'He was amazed, how so impotent and grovelling an insect as I' (these were his expressions) 'could entertain such inhu-man ideas, and in so familiar a manner, as to appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and desolation which I had painted as the common effects of those destructive 168 Gulliver's Travelsmachines; whereof,' he said, 'some evil genius, enemy to mankind, must have been the first contriver.
-- Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine; whether whistling be a vice or a vir-tue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire; what is the best colour for a coat, whether black, white, red, or gray; and whether it should be long or short, narrow or wide, dirty or clean; with many more.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I read in th' papers every 'Sizes, every Sessions and you read too I know it! with dismay how th' supposed unpossibility o' ever getting unchained from one another, at any price, on any terms, brings blood upon this land, and brings many common married fok to battle, murder, and sudden death.
-- 'If I do not understand and I do not, sir' said Sissy, 'what your honour as a gentleman binds you to, in other matters:' the blood really rose in his face as she began in these words: 'I am sure I may rely upon it to keep my visit secret, and to keep secret what I am going to say.
-- 'Is there has the hat any blood upon it?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its very memory, even now, makes my soul shudder, and my blood run cold.
-- I began to run, to fly, rushing at haphazard in this inextricable labyrinth, always going downwards, running wildly underneath the terrestrial crust, like an inhabitant of the subterranean furnaces, screaming, roaring, howling, until bruised by the pointed rocks, falling and picking myself up all covered with blood, seeking madly to drink the blood which dripped from my torn features, mad because this blood only trickled over my face, and watching always for this horrid wall which ever presented to me the fearful obstacle against which I could not dash my head.
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