cutting是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 锋利的, 尖刻的n. 开凿出来的公路, 铁路; 剪报，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：
-- The ostrich and the peccary were prepared for cooking by divesting them of their tough skins, and cutting them up into thin slices.
-- Shortly after, the DUNCAN had left the American coast, and was running eastward, her sharp keel rapidly cutting her way through the waves of the Atlantic Ocean.
-- Sometimes she would get in advance of the waves which carried her along, and cutting through them with her sharp prow, bury herself in their depths.
-- It soon became evident that a man, or men, clinging to the sides of the "pah," were cutting a passage into its exterior wall.
-- It was still thirty miles distant from the yacht, whose stem was rapidly cutting her way over the water at the rate of sixteen knots an hour.
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：
-- Eventually, as we know, she adopted the expedi-ent of cutting out the words which would form the message, and addressing the letter in a disguised hand.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- re-marked his wife in a cutting manner, as she turned her angry eyes on the prince.
-- This young fellow is quite capable of cutting the throats of ten people, simply for a lark, as he told us in his 'explanation.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man instantly began cutting the traces with his sword, but Hector's fleet hors-es bore down upon him through the rout with their bold charioteer, even Hector himself, and the old man would have perished there and then had not Diomed been quick to mark, and with a loud cry called Ulysses to help him.
-- You two were busy cutting up the heifer, and at that moment we stood at the gates, whereon Achilles sprang to his feet, led us by the hand into the house, placed us at table, and set before us such hospitable entertainment as guests expect.
-- Men are killing one another, the Danaans in defence of the dead body, while the Trojans are trying to hale it away, and take it to windy Ilius: Hector is the most furious of them all; he is for cutting the head from the body and fixing it on the stakes of the wall.
-- The servants were getting a meal ready under an oak, for they had sacrificed a great ox, and were busy cutting him up, while the women were making a porridge of much white barley for the labourers' dinner.
-- The son of Atreus drew the knife which he wore by the scabbard of his mighty sword, and began by cutting off some bristles from the boar, lifting up his hands in prayer as he did so.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In another moment Jaffers, cutting short some statement concerning a warrant, had gripped him by the handless wrist and caught his invisible throat.
-- "It's bad enough to let these floundering yokels explode my little secret, without your cutting off with my books.
-- Certain minor facts were added to the Iping story, notably the cutting of the village telegraph-wire.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then cutting like a knife across the confusion came the crack of a revolver.
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：
-- The axe cleaved the air in front of Heyward, and cutting some of the flowing ringlets of Alice, quivered in the tree above her head.
-- The cry was answered by a loud shout from a little thicket, where the incautious par-ty had piled their arms; and at the next moment, Hawkeye, too eager to load the rifle he had regained, was seen ad-vancing upon them, brandishing the clubbed weapon, and cutting the air with wide and powerful sweeps.
-- The tomahawk grazed her shoulder, and cutting the withes which bound her to the tree, left the maiden at liberty to fly.
-- Stepping eagerly from his stand, he made way for himself to the side of his friend; and cutting his thongs with a quick and angry stroke of his own knife, he mo-tioned to the crowd to divide.
-- But his hold loosened, and his dark person was seen cutting the air with its head downward, for a fleeting instant, until it glided past the fringe of shrubbery which clung to the mountain, in its rapid flight to destruc-tion.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor Geppetto kept cutting it and cutting it, but the more he cut, the longer grew that impertinent nose.
-- He took the bag, which happened to be empty, and after cutting a big hole at the top and two at the sides, he slipped into it as if it were a shirt.
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