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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After this I thought it well to hold my tongue, and allow the Professor to bite his lips until the blood came, without further remark.
-- "Look closely at it," he continued; "these jagged edges were never made by the resistance of human blood and bone.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would take many years for the liv-ing blood of the generations to dissolve the vast black clot of bruised blood, deep inside their souls and bodies.
-- Connie looked, and there, sure enough, was a big black cat, stretched out grimly, with a bit of blood on it.
-- They had their pathetic, two-seconds spasms like Michaelis; but no healthy human sensuality, that warms the blood and freshens the whole being.
-- That's when my blood sinks, and I'm low.
-- But when my blood comes up, I'm glad.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Mr Tite Barnacle who at the period now in question usually coached or crammed the statesman at the head of the Circumlocution Office, when that noble or right honourable individual sat a little uneasily in his saddle by reason of some vagabond making a tilt at him in a newspaper, was more flush of blood than money.
-- If a gentlemanly residence coming strictly within this narrow margin had not been essential to the blood of the Barnacles, this particular branch would have had a pretty wide selection among, let us say, ten thousand houses, offering fifty times the accommodation for a third of the money.
-- Flora Casby had been the beloved of his boyhood; and Flora was the daughter and only child of wooden-headed old Christopher (so he was still occasionally spoken of by some irreverent spirits who had had dealings with him, and in whom familiarity had bred its proverbial result perhaps), who was reputed to be rich in weekly tenants, and to get a good quantity of blood out of the stones of several unpromising courts and alleys.
-- Tattycoram, I'll not ask that lady whether she believes what she has said, even in the anger and ill blood in which I and my friend here equally know she has spoken, though she subdues herself, with a determination that any one who has once seen her is not likely to forget.
-- Among her connections and acquaintances, however, she maintained her individual dignity and the dignity of the blood of the Barnacles, by diligently nursing the pretence that it was a most unfortunate business; that she was sadly cut up by it; that this was a perfect fascination under which Henry laboured; that she had opposed it for a long time, but what could a mother do; and the like.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He isn't one of the cool, stiff Englishmen, but is rather peppery, for he has Scotch blood in him, as one might guess from his bonnie blue eyes.
-- It had been successful, for at three-and-twenty, blighted affections find a balm in friendly society, and young nerves will thrill, young blood dance, and healthy young spirits rise, when subjected to the enchantment of beauty, light, music, and motion.
-- Five years after Jo's wedding, one of these fruitful festivals occurred, a mellow Octo-ber day, when the air was full of an exhilarating freshness which made the spirits rise and the blood dance healthily in the veins.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was excellent blood in his veins royal stuff; though sadly vitiated, I fear, by the cannibal propensity he nourished in his untutored youth.
-- True enough, but then whalemen themselves are poor devils; they have no good blood in their veins.
-- No good blood in their veins?
-- They have something better than royal blood there.
-- Transported to the Indies, his live blood would not spoil like bottled ale.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They chafed her breast, hands, and temples; but the blood had stopped forever.
-- I wish some well-fed philosopher, whose meat and drink turn to gall within him; whose blood is ice, whose heart is iron; could have seen Oliver Twist clutching at the dainty viands that the dog had neglected.
-- When I came back, she was dying; and all the blood in my heart has dried up, for they starved her to death.
-- But his spirit was roused at last; the cruel insult to his dead mother had set his blood on fire.
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