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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was thrown by a man who walked softly down the passage with a candle held in his hand.
-- Barrymore was crouching at the window with the candle held against the glass.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Consequently when he came up the staircase to bed, candle in hand, he came full upon her.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I only had a classical nose and mouth I should be perfectly happy,' she said, surveying herself with a critical eye and a candle in each hand.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such dreary streets!blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb.
-- Come along here, I'll give ye a glim in a jiffy;" and so saying he lighted a candle and held it towards me, offering to lead the way.
-- "There," said the landlord, placing the candle on a crazy old sea chest that did double duty as a wash-stand and centre table; "there, make yourself comfortable now, and good night to ye."
-- Holding a light in one hand, and that identical New Zealand head in the other, the stranger entered the room, and without looking towards the bed, placed his candle a good way off from me on the floor in one corner, and then began working away at the knotted cords of the large bag I before spoke of as being in the room.
-- There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the undertaker: raising the candle above his head, to get a better view of Oliver.
-- The candle was burning low in the socket when he rose to his feet.
-- Having availed himself of the expiring light of the candle to tie up in a handkerchief the few articles of wearing apparel he had, sat himself down upon a bench, to wait for morning.
-- This seemed to be some watchword or signal that all was right; for the light of a feeble candle gleamed on the wall at the remote end of the passage; and a man's face peeped out, from where a balustrade of the old kitchen staircase had been broken away.
-- 'There's two on you,' said the man, thrusting the candle farther out, and shielding his eyes with his hand.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I lit my candle and went up to my room that night there sat pap his own self!
-- I set the candle down.
-- There was an old horse-blanket nailed against the logs at the far end of the cabin behind the ta-ble, to keep the wind from blowing through the chinks and putting the candle out.
-- At last I got so sleepy I couldn't keep my eyes open all I could do, and so before I knowed what I was about I was sound asleep, and the candle burning.
-- There was a woman about forty year old in there knitting by a candle that was on a pine table.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a twinkling the tree began to sputter and burn like a candle blown by the wind.
-- On and on he walked till finally he found--I give you a thousand guesses, my dear children!He found a little table set for dinner and lighted by a candle stuck in a glass bottle; and near the table sat a little old man, white as the snow, eating live fish.
-- Today there is nothing left in the cupboard, and this candle you see here is the last one I have."
-- Not adding another word, Pinocchio took the candle in his hand and going ahead to light the way, he said to his father: "Follow me and have no fear."
-- To make matters worse, the candle went out and father and son were left in the dark.
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