harness是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 挽具, 降落伞背带; vt. 上挽具; 治理(河流等) ; 利用，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thereon the august goddess, daughter of great Saturn, began to harness her gold-bedi-zened steeds.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rattle of the harness was the chink of money, and more drafts were honoured in five minutes than even Tellson's, with all its foreign and home connec-tion, ever paid in thrice the time.
-- Lo, Miss Pross, in harness of string, awakening the echoes, as an unruly charger, whip-corrected, snorting and pawing the earth under the plane-tree in the garden!
-- 'You know, Doctor, that it is among the Rights of these Nobles to harness us common dogs to carts, and drive us.
-- They kept him out in the unwholesome mists at night, and ordered him back into his harness in the day.
-- No!Taken out of harness one day at noon, to feed if he could find food he sobbed twelve times, once for every stroke of the bell, and died on her bo-som.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just as I was getting ready to go to sleep I heard a jingle of harness and a grunt, and a mule passed me shaking his wet ears.
-- I heard the harness jingle as the mule backed and caught the camel two kicks in the ribs that rang like a drum.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when he got out at his own station, when he saw his one-eyed coachman, Ignat, with the collar of his coat turned up; when, in the dim light reflected by the station fires, he saw his own sledge, his own horses with their tails tied up, in their harness trimmed with rings and tassels; when the coachman Ignat, as he put in his luggage, told him the village news, that the contractor had arrived, and that Pava had calved,--he felt that little by little the confusion was clearing up, and the shame and self-dissatisfaction were passing away.
-- "There...in the outer room," answered the old man, bundling together the harness he had taken off, and flinging it on the ground.
-- He stared at the sleek horse flecked with lather between his haunches and on his neck, where the harness rubbed, stared at Ivan the coachman sitting beside him, and remembered that he was expecting his brother, thought that his wife was most likely uneasy at his long absence, and tried to guess who was the visitor who had come with his brother.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He left them triumphantly, and Martin groaned, "Ira makes me want to get out of medicine and be an honest harness maker."
-- "Why, yes, in the old harness room.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To the ears of the three on the porch came the sounds of hooves, the jingling of harness chains and the shrillcareless laughter of negro voices, as the field hands and mules came in from the fields.
-- Letters from men at the front complained constantly of shoes that wore outin a week, gunpowder that would not ignite, harness that snapped at any strain, meat that was rotten and flour that wasfull of weevils.
-- Here and mere in the road and fields lay buckles and bits of harness leather, canteens flattened by hooves andcaisson wheels, buttons, blue caps, worn socks, bits of bloody rags, all the litter left by the marching army.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So Chanticleer began to build a little carriage of nutshells: and when it was finished, Partlet 79jumped into it and sat down, and bid Chanticleer harness himself to it and draw her home.
-- 'Never mind that, father,' said Tom; 'if my mother will only harness the horse, I will get into his ear and tell him which way to go.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I de-scribed, as well as I could, our way of riding; the shape and use of a bridle, a saddle, a spur, and a whip; of harness and wheels.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Framed and glazed upon the wall behind the dingy little bar, was another Pegasus a theatrical one with real gauze let in for his wings, golden stars stuck on all over him, and his ethereal harness made of red silk.
-- Bounderby,' said Jem, turning with a smile to Louisa, 'is a noble animal in a comparatively natural state, quite free from the harness in which a conventional hack like myself works.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I, who might always be said to to to harness myself to a watering-cart full of money, and go about saturating Society every day of my life.'
-- Or, that she might harness the proprieties to the carriage of some rich young heiress or widow, and become at once the driver and guard of such vehicle through the social mazes.
-- Bright the carriage looked, sleek the horses looked, gleaming the harness looked, luscious and lasting the liveries looked.
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