build是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 建造， 建筑； 建设， 建立vi. 增大， 增强，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He only desired me to observe a ruined build-ing, upon the side of a mountain about three miles distant, of which he gave me this account: 'That he had a very con-venient mill within half a mile of his house, turned by a current from a large river, and sufficient for his own family, as well as a great number of his tenants; that about seven years ago, a club of those projectors came to him with pro-posals to destroy this mill, and build another on the side of that mountain, on the long ridge whereof a long canal must be cut, for a repository of water, to be conveyed up by 222 Gulliver's Travelspipes and engines to supply the mill, because the wind and air upon a height agitated the water, and thereby made it fitter for motion, and because the water, descending down a declivity, would turn the mill with half the current of a river whose course is more upon a level.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, as the eider duck never selects steep rocks or aspects to build its nest, but rather sloping and low cliffs near to the sea, the Icelandic hunter can carry on his trade operations w ithout much difficulty.
-- Every step I took confirmed me in my belief, and I began already to build castles in the air in relation to my marriage with my pretty little cousin.
-- On the side of the rising sun was to be seen a little port, crowded with houses, and near which the boats and vessels of peculiar build were floating upon azure waves.
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：
-- The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes.
-- But, determined to build himself a monument of a reputation quickly, he used any handy rubble in the making.
-- It's because th' men AREN'T men, that th' women have to be. An' in time pull down Tevershall and build a few beautiful buildings, that would hold us all.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo remembered the kind old gentleman, who used to let her build railroads and bridges with his big dictionaries, tell her stories about queer pictures in his Latin books, and buy her cards of gingerbread whenever he met her in the street.
-- and pity from your heart those who have no such guardians to hedge them round with principles which may seem like prison walls to impatient youth, but which will prove sure foundations to build char-acter upon in womanhood.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Charles, when you build YOUR house, I wish it may be half as delightful as Pem-berley.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But our patron, warned by this disaster, resolved to take more care of himself for the future; and having lying by him the longboat of our English ship that he had taken, he resolved he would not go a- fishing any more without a compass and some provision; so he ordered the carpenter of his ship, who also was an English slave, to build a little state-room, or cabin, in the middle of the long- boat, like that of a barge, with a place to stand behind it to steer, and haul home the main-sheet; the room before for a hand or two to stand and work the sails.
-- So with this resolution I composed myself for a time, and resolved that I would go to work with all speed to build me a wall with piles and cables, &c., in a circle, as before, and set my tent up in it when it was finished; but that I would venture to stay where I was till it was finished, and fit to re-move.
-- And now, indeed, my stock of corn increasing, I really wanted to build my barns bigger; I wanted a place to lay it up in, for the increase of the corn now yielded me so much, that I had of the barley about twenty bushels, and of the rice as much or more; insomuch that now I resolved to begin to use it freely; for my bread had been quite gone a great while; also I resolved to see what quantity would be sufficient for me a whole year, and to sow but once a year.
-- He said they had many consultations about it; but that hav-ing neither vessel nor tools to build one, nor provisions of any kind, their councils always ended in tears and despair.
-- I added that, otherwise, I was persuaded, if they were all here, we might, with so many hands, build a barque large enough to carry us all away, ei-ther to the Brazils southward, or to the islands or Spanish coast northward; but that if, in requital, they should, when I had put weapons into their hands, carry me by force among their own people, I might be ill-used for my kindness to them, and make my case worse than it was before.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without considering that it was not in her mother's plan to keep any horse, that if she were to alter her resolution in favour of this gift, she must buy another for the servant, and keep a servant to ride it, and after all, build a stable to receive them, she had accepted the present without hesitation, and told her sister of it in raptures.
-- Nay, more, I consider it as the only form of building in which happiness is attainable, and were I rich enough I would instantly pull Combe down, and build it up again in the exact plan of this cottage."
-- And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me, and be happy.
-- I advise every body who is going to build, to build a cottage.
-- 'My dear Courtland,' said I, immediately throwing them all into the fire, 'do not adopt either of them, but by all means build a cottage.'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His ambition was some day to build a house on them.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he tells them to build a palace forty miles long out of di'monds, and fill it full of chewing-gum, or whatever you want, and fetch an emperor's daughter from China for you to marry, they've got to do it and they've got to do it before sun-up next morning, too.
-- I got an old tin lamp and an iron ring, and went out in the woods and rubbed and rubbed till I sweat like an Injun, calculating to build a palace and sell it; but it warn't no use, none of the genies come.
-- The door of the cavern was big enough to roll a hogshead in, and on one side of the door the floor stuck out a little bit, and was flat and a good place to build a fire on.
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