bench是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 长凳， 条凳； (工作) 台， 座，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such is the Bench in my checquered career.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The laurels at Maple Grove are in the same profusion as here, and stand very much in the same way just across the lawn; and I had a glimpse of a fine large tree, with a bench round it, which put me so exactly in mind!My brother and sister will be enchanted with this place.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sat on a bench and the crook was made, a stem being given him into the bargain.
-- Recovering from the softer impressions produced by Bathsheba's voice, the shearers rose to leave, Coggan turning to Pennyways as he pushed back the bench to pass out: "I like to give praise where praise is due, and the man deserves it that 'a do so," he remarked, looking at the worthy thief, as if he were the masterpiece of some world-renowned artist.
-- Here he entered the porch, and, reclining upon the bench within, fell asleep.
-- This feature consisted of one raised bench in a very conspicuous part of the circle, covered with red cloth, and floored with a piece of carpet, and Bathsheba immediately found, to her confusion, that she was the single reserved individual in the tent, the rest of the crowded spectators, one and all, standing on their legs on the borders of the arena, where they got twice as good a view of the performance for half the money.
-- They did flow and plenteously, and one fell upon the stone bench beside her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he had drunk this second time, he rose from the bench on which he sat, and pushed the table aside.
-- We sat down on a bench that was near, and I said, "After so many years, it is strange that we should thus meet again, Estella, here where our first meeting was!Do you often come back?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That is no part of our bar-gain,' said the youth, 'the bench is mine.'
-- The third night he sat down again on his bench and said quite sadly: 'If I could but shudder.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before the spinet a bench was placed, about four feet below the keys, and I was put upon the bench.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yielding at length, if any concession so sullenly made can be called yielding, to the entreaties of Sissy for Louisa he disowned altogether he came down, bench by bench, until he stood in the sawdust, on the verge of the circle, as far as possible, within its limits from where his father sat.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While we were seated on this extraordinary bench I ventured once more to look downwards.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having filled and emptied his little tumbler twice, and having broken off an end from the great loaf that was set before him with his cloth and napkin, soup-plate, salt, pepper, and oil, he rested his back against the corner of the wall, made a couch of the bench on which he sat, and began to chew crust, until such time as his repast should be ready.
-- There was a dinner giving in the Harley Street establishment, while Little Dorrit was stitching at her father's new shirts by his side that night; and there were magnates from the Court and magnates from the City, magnates from the Commons and magnates from the Lords, magnates from the bench and magnates from the bar, Bishop magnates, Treasury magnates, Horse Guard magnates, Admiralty magnates, all the magnates that keep us going, and sometimes trip us up.
-- Brothers Bellows and Bench struck in.
-- The patient figures at work were swarthy with the filings of iron and steel that danced on every bench and bubbled up through every chink in the planking.
-- The cost of being moved to the Bench is almost insignificant, and if the general feeling is strong that you ought to be there, why really ''I thought you had settled, Mr Rugg,' said Arthur, 'that my determination to remain here was a matter of taste.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I sat down on an old wooden settle, carved all over like a bench on the Battery.
-- I'll try the bench here."
-- But it was a foot too narrow, and the other bench in the room was about four inches higher than the planed one so there was no yoking them.
-- I then placed the first bench lengthwise along the only clear space against the wall, leaving a little interval between, for my back to settle down in.
-- He was sitting on a bench before the fire, with his feet on the stove hearth, and in one hand was holding close up to his face that little negro idol of his; peering hard into its face, and with a jack-knife gently whittling away at its nose, meanwhile humming to himself in his heathenish way.
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