cord是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 绳， 索，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：
-- A minute after, the three pulls at the cord informed them the boy had alighted safely.
-- The unfortunate Paganel had caught hold of the cord of the loaded gun.
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：
-- In another moment the twang of the cord was heard, a white streak was seen glancing into the bushes, and the wounded buck plunged from the cover, to the very feet of his hidden en-emy.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Herbert then thought of fastening a cord to an arrow, and shooting the arrow so that it should pass between the first rounds of the ladder which hung from the threshold.
-- By means of the cord they would then be able to draw down the ladder to the ground, and so re-establish the communication between the beach and Granite House.
-- The bow was bent, the arrow flew, taking the cord with it, and passed between the two last rounds.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This poetic figure, which Kit took to be in a special allusion to his own checked waistcoat, quite overcame him; Mr Brass's voice and manner added not a little to its effect, for he discoursed with all the mild austerity of a hermit, and wanted but a cord round the waist of his rusty surtout, and a skull on the chimney-piece, to be completely set up in that line of business.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length I was clear of my dangerous neighbour, and just as I gave the last impulsion, my hands came across a light cord that was trailing overboard across the stern bulwarks.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Ned Land had disentangled the Captain, who, getting up without any wound, went straight to the Indian, quickly cut the cord which held him to his stone, took him in his arms, and, with a sharp blow of his heel, mounted to the surface.
-- The harpoon used for striking the whale is generally attached to a very long cord which runs out rapidly as the wounded creature draws it after him.
-- But here the cord was not more than ten fathoms long, and the extremity was attached to a small barrel which, by floating, was to show the course the dugong took under the water.
-- They tried then to haul it on board, but its weight was so considerable that the tightness of the cord separated the tail from the body, and, deprived of this ornament, he disappeared under the water."
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