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：
-- Then he passed through the same door as before, and the light of the candle framed it in the darkness and shot one single yellow beam across the gloom of the corridor.
-- When at last we reached the door and peeped through we found him crouching at the window, candle in hand, his white, intent face pressed against the pane, exactly as I had seen him two nights before.
-- I was holding a candle to the window.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was contradicted, and the rumour circu-lated that it was a young merchant who had come into the enormous fortune and married the great ballet dancer, and that at the wedding the drunken young fool had burned seventy thousand roubles at a candle out of pure bravado.
-- On the table was an end of candle in an iron candlestick, and a half-bot-tle of vodka, nearly finished.
-- 'What!he brought a candle with him to this place?
-- Be quiet, can't you!He brought a box of matches too, if you like, and then light-ed the candle and held his finger in it for half an hour and more! There!Can't that be?'
-- Suddenly the door opened, and in came Alexan-dra, candle in hand.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bunting was now in the hall, and through the crack of the door he could see the desk and the open drawer and a candle burning on the desk.
-- As it did so, the candle Mrs. Bunting was carrying from the study flickered and flared.
-- He distinctly remembered holding the candle while Mrs. Hall shot these bolts overnight.
-- He took a candle and went down to the dining-room in search of a syphon and whiskey.
-- Then he gave a sort of inarticulate cry, dropped candle and writ together, and went blundering down the dark passage to the stairs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The child took a candle and tripped into this little room, leaving the old man and me together.
-- The little old man took up a candle and went to open the door.
-- She evinced no consciousness of my surprise, but cheerfully helped the old man with his cloak, and when he was ready took a candle to light us out.
-- 'There's one good thing springs out of all this,' said Richard Swiviller to himself when he had reached home and was hanging over the candle with the extinguisher in his hand, 'which is, that I now go heart and soul, neck and heels, with Fred in all his scheme about little Nelly, and right glad he'll be to find me so strong upon it.
-- Drawing it off into the glasses with the skill of a practised hand, and mixing it with about a third part of water, Mr Quilp assigned to Richard Swiveller his portion, and lighting his pipe from an end of a candle in a very old and battered lantern, drew himself together upon a seat and puffed away.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the middle of the room, opposite the door, was a dark iron, with a wax candle stuck on it, and a dusty bouquet of immortelles hanging under it.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then my mother got a candle in the bar, and holding each other's hands, we advanced into the parlour.
-- Next moment we were both groping downstairs, leaving the candle by the empty chest; and the next we had opened the door and were in full retreat.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when he went in again, at evening, to look at Gerald between the candles, because of his heart's hunger, suddenly his heart contracted, his own candle all but fell from his hand, as, with a strange whimpering cry, the tears broke out.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In vapid listlessness I leant my head against the window, and continued spelling over Catherine Earnshaw Heathcliff Linton, till my eyes closed; but they had not rested five minutes when a glare of white letters started from the dark, as vivid as spectres the air swarmed with Catherines; and rousing myself to dispel the obtrusive name, I discovered my candle wick reclining on one of the antique volumes, and perfuming the place with an odour of roasted calf skin.
-- Heathcliff stood near the entrance, in his shirt and trousers; with a candle dripping over his fingers, and his face as white as the wall behind him.
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