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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It appeared that there had been a previous call which they had not noticed, for on their close approach the door of the turnpike-house opened, and the keeper came out half-dressed, with a candle in his hand.
-- She turned her head the gateman's candle shimmering upon her quick, clear eyes as she did so passed through the gate, and was soon wrapped in the embowering shades of mysterious summer boughs.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett entered her room, set the candle on the tall chest of drawers and fumbled in the dark closet for the dancingdress that needed stitching.
-- But, sometimes, when she blew out the candle and burrowed her head into the pillow,she sighed and thought: "If only Ashley wasn't married!If only I didn't have to nurse in that plagued hospital!Oh, ifonly I could have some beaux!"
-- Every candle and candlestick in Atlanta must be in this hall tonight, she thought,silver ones with a dozen sprangling arms, china ones with charming figurines clustering their bases, old brass stands,erect and dignified, laden with candles of all sizes and colors, smelling fragrantly of bayberries, standing on the gunracks that ran the length of the hall, on the long flower-decked tables, on booth counters, even on the sills of the openwindows where, the draughts of warm summer air were just strong enough to make them flare.
-- She pinned the wrapper close about her throat, lit her bedside candle and hurried down the dark stairs into thefront hall.
-- Setting the candle on the stand, she unlocked the door and in the wavering light she saw Rhett Butler, not aruffle disarranged, supporting her small, thickset father.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was never allowed a candle to light me to bed, and, as I went upstairs in the dark, with my head tingling,--from Mrs. Joe's thimble having played the tambourine upon it, to accompany her last words,--I felt fearfully sensible of the great convenience that the hulks were handy for me.
-- We went into the house by a side door, the great front entrance had two chains across it outside,--and the first thing I noticed was, that the passages were all dark, and that she had left a candle burning there.
-- She took it up, and we went through more passages and up a staircase, and still it was all dark, and only the candle lighted us.
-- And scornfully walked away, and--what was worse--took the candle with her.
-- I followed the candle down, as I had followed the candle up, and she stood it in the place where we had found it.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is rather dark,' said he; 'they forgot to build windows in this room to let the sun in; a candle would be no bad thing.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They expected every moment to hear Merrylegs give tongue, but the highly trained performing dog had not barked when the girl and the candle appeared together.
-- He took his end of candle from a shelf, lighted it at another end of candle on the counter, without disturbing the mistress of the shop who was asleep in her little room, and went upstairs into his lodging.
-- Going to the hearth to set the candle down upon a round three-legged table standing there, he stumbled against something.
-- RACHAELA candle faintly burned in the window, to which the black ladder had often been raised for the sliding away of all that was most precious in this world to a striving wife and a brood of hungry babies; and Stephen added to his other thoughts the stern reflection, that of all the casualties of this existence upon earth, not one was dealt out with so unequal a hand as Death.
-- Seen across the dim candle with his moistened eyes, she looked as if she had a glory shining round her head.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He jerked his head swiftly to indicate the candle burning on the table.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had a candle in his hand, and he held it up for a moment to assist his keen eyes.
-- He took another candle from a cupboard, lighted it, left the first on the table, and went upon his errand.
-- That she looked at the candle she had left burning, and, measuring the time like King Alfred the Great, was confirmed by its wasted state in her belief that she had been asleep for some considerable period.
-- She did not skim over it, but walked down it, and guided herself by the banisters on account of her candle having died out.
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