structure是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 结构， 构造； 建筑物v. 构造， 建造，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- John took the precaution to place in the interstices half a dozen empty barrels, which would raise the structure above the level of the water.
-- The sail was spread, and the frail structure commenced its progress toward the land, aided by wind and tide.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 263So much was closing in about the women who sat knitting, knitting, that they their very selves were closing in around a structure yet unbuilt, where they were to sit knitting, knit-ting, counting dropping heads.
-- They were discussing this question, and were almost building up some weak structure of hope on his prolonged absence, when they heard him on the stairs.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet Gottlieb did not move, but pondered the unknown chemical structure of antibodies, interrupted by questions as to whether Pearl Robbins had enough pencils, whether it would be quite all right for Dr. Holabird to receive the Lettish scientific mission this afternoon, so that Dr. Sholtheis might attend the Anglican Conference on the Reservation of the Host.
-- They passed, at their colored driver's most jerky speed, a new brick structure in front of which stately Negro policemen with white gloves, white sun-helmets, and scarlet coats cut by white belts, marched with rifles at the carry.
-- maverick and undomestic researchers like themselves, who should contribute to the expenses of the camp by manufacturing sera, but otherwise do their own independent work-- whether it should be the structure of the atom, or a disproof of the results of Drs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The glory of lodging over this structure wouldhave compensated him, I dare say, for many inconveniences; but,as there were really few to bear, beyond the compound of flavoursI have already mentioned, and perhaps the want of a little moreelbow-room, he was perfectly charmed with his accommodation.
-- Where, for the first time in manyrevolving years, the overwhelming pressure of pecuniary liabilitieswas not proclaimed, from day to day, by importunate voicesdeclining to vacate the passage; where there was no knocker on thedoor for any creditor to appeal to; where personal service ofprocess was not required, and detainers were merely lodged at thegate!Gentlemen,' said Mr. Mi- cawber, 'when the shadow of thatiron-work on the summit of the brick structure has been reflectedon the gravel of the Parade, I have seen my children thread the 652mazes of the intricate pattern, avoiding the dark marks.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I confess that neither the structure of languages, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states pos-sessed attractions for me.
-- One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life.
-- This was a new sight to me, and I examined the structure with great curiosity.
-- My father, who was watching over me, perceiving my restlessness, awoke me; the dashing waves were around, the cloudy sky above, the fiend was not here: a sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future imparted to me a kind of calm forgetfulness, of which the human mind is by its structure peculiarly susceptible.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What a gigantic structure was theirs; what vast and prodigious strength they possessed!
-- I am rather inclined to admit the existence of some animal resembling in structure the human race--of some monkey of the first geological epoc hs, like that discovered by M. Lartet in the ossiferous deposit of Sansan.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When it at last rose to the walls of the convent of the Great Saint Bernard, it was as if that weather-beaten structure were another Ark, and floated on the shadowy waves.
-- When free from the trammels of passion,' Mrs General closed her eyes at the word, as if she could not utter it, and see anybody; 'when occurring with the approbation of near relatives; and when cementing the proud structure of a family edifice; these are usually auspicious events.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The others sat round the fire, talking away, utterly regardless of the lapse of time, till Meg, whose maternal was impressed with a firm conviction that Daisy had tumbled out of be, and Demi set his nightgown afire studying the structure of matches, made a move to go.
-- The boy early developed a mechanical genius which delighted his father and distracted his mother, for he tried to imitate every machine he saw, and kept the nursery in a chaotic condition, with his 'sewinsheen', a mysterious structure of string, chairs, clothespins, and spools, for wheels to go 'wound and wound'.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The baleen, hump, back-fin, and teeth; these are things whose peculiarities are indiscriminately dispersed among all sorts of whales, without any regard to what may be the nature of their structure in other and more essential particulars.
-- But to comprehend it aright, you must know something of the curious internal structure of the thing operated upon.
-- Not so with the whale; one of whose peculiarities it is to have an entire non-valvular structure of the blood-vessels, so that when pierced even by so small a point as a harpoon, a deadly drain is at once begun upon his whole arterial system; and when this is heightened by the extraordinary pressure of water at a great distance below the surface, his life may be said to pour from him in incessant streams.
-- But owing to his marked internal structure which gives him regular lungs, like a human being's, the whale can only live by inhaling the disengaged air in the open atmosphere.
-- But as the colossal skull embraces so very large a proportion of the entire extent of the skeleton; as it is by far the most complicated part; and as nothing is to be repeated concerning it in this chapter, you must not fail to carry it in your mind, or under your arm, as we proceed, otherwise you will not gain a complete notion of the general structure we are about to view.
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