candle是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 蜡烛，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With an ill-will Scrooge dismounted from his stool, and tacitly admitted the fact to the expectant clerk in the Tank, who instantly snuffed his candle out, and put on his hat.
-- He fastened the door, and walked across the hall, and up the stairs; slowly too: trimming his candle as he went.
-- I passed his office window; and as it was not shut up, and he had a candle inside, I could scarcely help seeing him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He resorted to his pint of wine for consolation, drank it all in a few minutes, and fell asleep on his arms, with his hair straggling over the table, and a long winding-sheet in the candle dripping down upon him.
-- She put her needless candle in the shadow at a distance, crept up to his bed, and put her lips to his; then, leaned over him, and looked at him.
-- There, with closed doors, and in a mysterious and guilty man-ner, Mr. Lorry hacked the shoemaker's bench to pieces, while Miss Pross held the candle as if she were assisting at a murder for which, indeed, in her grimness, she was no unsuitable figure.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The study was slowly lit up as the candle was brought in.
-- "Well, God be with you," she said at the door of the study, where a shaded candle and a decanter of water were already put by his armchair.
-- I assure you Talleyrand couldn't hold a candle to me."
-- "Without the candle I can see better what I see and what I prayed for.
-- When the candle was taken away, Seryozha heard and felt his mother.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mean-while it got dark; he had no candle and, indeed, it did not occur to him to light up.
-- Nastasya came in with a candle and a plate of soup.
-- Looking at him carefully and ascertaining that he was not asleep, she set the candle on the table and began to lay out what she had brought bread, salt, a plate, a spoon.
-- On a broken chair stood a candle in a battered copper candlestick.
-- He carried the book to the candle and began to turn over the pages.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having issued this mandate with as muchpotentiality as if she had been a recognised authority in the houseever since it had been a house, and having looked out to confrontthe amazed Peggotty coming along the passage with a candle at thesound of a strange voice, Miss Betsey shut the door again, and satdown as before; with her feet on the fender, the skirt of her dresstucked up, and her hands folded on one knee.
-- I kissed her, andwent upstairs with my candle directly, before they came in.
-- How well I recollect the kind of day it was!I smell the fog thathung about the place; I see the hoar-frost, ghostly, through it; I feelmy rimy hair fall clammy on my cheek; I look along the dimperspective of the schoolroom, with a sputtering candle here andthere to light up the foggy morning, and the breath of the boyswreathing and smoking in the raw cold as they blow upon theirfingers, and tap their feet upon the floor.
-- After I said myprayers, and the candle had burnt out, I remember how I still satlooking at the moonlight on the water, as if I could hope to readmy fortune in it, as in a bright book; or to see my mother with herchild, coming from heaven, along that shining path, to look uponme as she had looked when I last saw her sweet face.
-- And he wondered about it, in some broken expressions, severaltimes, in the short remainder of our walk; and only seemed toforget it when the light of fire and candle shone upon us, seatedwarm and merry, at table.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oak extinguished the lantern by blowing into it and then pinching the snuff, the cot being lighted by a candle suspended by a twisted wire.
-- "He admired her so much that he used to light the candle three times a night to look at her."
-- A current of air rushed up the tube, forcible enough to have extinguished a candle held at the orifice.
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