duck是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 鸭， 鸭肉v. 迅速俯身； 快速低头； 躲避，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：
-- When Ajax lift-ed his shield Teucer would peer round, and when he had hit any one in the throng, the man would fall dead; then Teucer would hie back to Ajax as a child to its mother, and again duck down under his shield.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He lent me some duck things of his own, for those I had worn in the boat had been thrown overboard.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dinner began with one misfortune in that Terry Wickett, who hitherto could be depended upon to stay decently away, now appeared, volunteering to the wife of an ex-ambassador, "I simply couldn't duck this spread, with dear Sir Isaac coming.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Quilp, drawing in his breath with great relish as if he were taking soup, 'you and I will have such a settling presently; there's such a scratching and bruising in store for you, my dear young friend!Aha!Nelly!How is he now, my duck of diamonds?'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An' nex' thing, huccome Ah din' bringy'all home ternight so she could lay you out An' den she'll light on me lak a duck on a June bug, an' fust thing Ahknow Ah'll be ter blame fer it all.
-- quavered Pittypat "Pa is coming tomorrow and he's going to land on me like a duck on a June bug," answered Scarlett dolorously.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While this was passing, a duck came quacking up and cried out, 'You thieving vagabonds, what business have you in my grounds?
-- Late at night they arrived at an inn; and as it was bad 80 Grimms' Fairy Talestravelling in the dark, and the duck seemed much tired, and waddled about a good deal from one side to the other, they made up their minds to fix their quarters there: but the landlord at first was unwilling, and said his house was full, thinking they might not be very respectable company: how-ever, they spoke civilly to him, and gave him the egg which Partlet had laid by the way, and said they would give him the duck, who was in the habit of laying one every day: so at last he let them come in, and they bespoke a handsome sup-per, and spent the evening very jollily.
-- When they arrived at Mr Korbes's house, he was not at home; so the mice drew the carriage into the coach-house, Chanticleer and Partlet flew upon a beam, the cat sat down in the fireplace, the duck got into the washing cistern, the pin stuck himself into the bed pillow, the millstone laid himself over the house door, and the egg rolled himself up in the towel.
-- When Mr Korbes came home, he went to the fireplace to make a fire; but the cat threw all the ashes in his eyes: so he ran to the kitchen to wash himself; but there the duck splashed all the water in his face; and when he tried to wipe himself, the egg broke to pieces in the towel all over his face and eyes.
-- Said Lina: 'Be a fishpond, and I will be the duck upon it.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No sooner has the eider duck made her nest than she lines the inside of it with the softest down from her breast.
-- 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.
-- The worthy man was as good a sailor as he was a guide and duck hunter.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Suppose he should take it into his head to duck you, though yes, and drown you what then?"
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We'll have favourable winds, a quick passage, and not the least difficulty in finding the spot, and money to eat, to roll in, to play duck and drake with ever after."
-- All at once there began to go a sort of bustle among the bulrushes; a wild duck flew up with a quack, another followed, and soon over the whole surface of the marsh a great cloud of birds hung screaming and circling in the air.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, everybody WAS in a state of mind now, and they sings out: 'The whole BILIN' of 'm 's frauds!Le's duck 'em!le's drown 'em!le's ride 'em on a rail!'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Do you pretend, by any chance, that I should feed you duck or chicken?"
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