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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Human beings there were none, not a native appeared; not even one of the GUASSOS, the degenerate offspring of Indians and Spaniards, dashed across the plain like a shadow, his flying steed dripping with blood from the cruel thrusts inflicted by the gigantic spurs of his master's naked feet.
-- Drops of blood stood on the gums and lips, and respiration became hurried and difficult.
-- This great recognition of his favorite's services was wholly unexpected by the Indian, who was talking to him that minute, caressing and speaking to him, as if human blood flowed in the veins of the proud creature.
-- As soon as they were near enough, Paganel fired, only loading his gun, however, with powder, for he would not shed even the blood of a bird uselessly.
-- The foam from his mouth was tinged with blood from the action of the bit, pulled tightly by his master's strong hand, and yet the fiery animal would not be still.
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：
-- Baskerville sat for a long time, his eyes fixed upon it, and I read upon his eager face how much it meant to him, this first sight of that strange spot where the men of his blood had held sway so long and left their mark so deep.
-- 'Your blood would be upon my head.
-- Was it possible that this stolidly respectable person was of the same blood as one of the most notorious criminals in the country?
-- My blood ran cold in my veins, for there was a break in his voice which told of the sudden horror which had seized him.
-- That frightful cry turned the blood to ice in my veins.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stood, for a moment, with the blood so tingling through all his veins from terror, that he felt as if he were in a burning fire; then, confused and frightened, he took to his heels; and, not knowing what he did, made off as fast as he could lay his feet to the ground.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found him by his blood staining the water; and by the help of a rope, which I slung round him, and gave the negroes to haul, they dragged him on shore, and found that it was a most curious leopard, spotted, and fine to an admirable degree; and the negroes held up their hands with admiration, to think what it was I had killed him with.
-- I believe it is impossible to express, to the life, what the ec-stasies and transports of the soul are, when it is so saved, as I may say, out of the very grave: and I do not wonder now at the custom, when a malefactor, who has the halter about his neck, is tied up, and just going to be turned off, and has a reprieve brought to him - I say, I do not wonder that they bring a surgeon with it, to let him blood that very moment they tell him of it, that the surprise may not drive the ani-mal spirits from the heart and overwhelm him.
-- As to the east side of the island, which I had gone round, I knew well enough there was no venturing that way; my very heart would shrink, and my very blood run chill, but to think of it; and as to the other side of the island, I did not know how it might be there; but supposing the current ran with the same force against the shore at the east as it passed by it on the other, I might run the same risk of being driven down the stream, and carried by the island, as I had been before of being carried away from it: so with these thoughts, I con-tented myself to be without any boat, though it had been the product of so many months' labour to make it, and of so many more to get it into the sea.
-- But now, when, as I have said, I began to be weary of the fruitless excursion which I had made so long and so far every morning in vain, so my opinion of the action itself be-gan to alter; and I began, with cooler and calmer thoughts, to consider what I was going to engage in; what authority or call I had to pretend to be judge and executioner upon these men as criminals, whom Heaven had thought fit for so many ages to suffer unpunished to go on, and to be as it were the executioners of His judgments one upon another; how far these people were offenders against me, and what right I had to engage in the quarrel of that blood which they shed promiscuously upon one another.
-- When this had agitated my thoughts for two hours or more, with such violence that it set my very blood into a fer-ment, and my pulse beat as if I had been in a fever, merely with the extraordinary fervour of my mind about it, Na-ture - as if I had been fatigued and exhausted with the very thoughts of it - threw me into a sound sleep.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instantly the blood crept warmly over her body.
-- She boarded a car in the best of spirits, feeling her blood still flowing pleasantly.
-- Carrie, on the other hand, had the blood of youth and some imagination.
-- His blood was warm; his nerves wrought up.
-- If he did, he would be offered terms that would make his blood boil.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if anybody that belonged to the band told the secrets, he must have his throat cut, and then have his carcass burnt up and the ash-es scattered all around, and his name blotted off of the list with blood and never men- tioned again by the gang, but have a curse put on it and be forgot forever.
-- Then they all stuck a pin in their fingers to get blood to sign with, and I made my mark on the paper.
-- 'Well, that IS a question, I must say; and just like wom- en!Why, I wanted the ADVENTURE of it; and I'd a waded neck-deep in blood to goodness alive, AUNT POLLY!'
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