circus是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 马戏表演, 广场，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：
-- It was like the delirious fury of tigers fighting over their prey, or like a circus where the wild beasts devour the deer.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Just think, monsieur, I had no idea that we should go farther than Paris; and all that I saw of Paris was between twenty minutes past seven and twenty minutes before nine in the morning, between the Northern and the Lyons stations, through the windows of a car, and in a driving rain!How I regret not having seen once more Pere la Chaise and the circus in the Champs Elysees!"
-- But elephants are far from cheap in India, where they are becoming scarce, the males, which alone are suitable for circus shows, are much sought, especially as but few of them are domesticated.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We'll patent your method of synthesizing antibodies and immediately put them on the market in large quantities, with a great big advertising campaign-- you know--not circus it, of course--strictly high-class ethical advertising.
-- He would not sit here bawling like me!He makes me like a circus clown!He takes all my statements about epidemiology and shows me I am a fool!Ho, ho, ho!"
-- veterans, circus advance- agents, policemen, and ladies of reasonable virtue-- everybody except perhaps socialist agitators, against whom he staunchly protected the embattled city.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this time the July preceding the September in which we find at Greenhill Fair he fell in with a travelling circus which was performing in the outskirts of a northern town.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You know, as well as I do, no young people have circus masters, or keep circuses in cabinets, or attend lectures about circuses.
-- This done, they walked about, waiting for the Circus to be quite vacated; not only by the audience, but by the company and by the horses.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, one day we lowered for a pod of four or five whales, and my boat fastened to one of them; a regular circus horse he was, too, that went milling and milling round so, that my boat's crew could only trim dish, by sitting all their sterns on the outer gunwale.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We struck it mighty lucky; there was going to be a circus there that afternoon, and the country people was already beginning to come in, in all kinds of old shackly wagons, and on horses.
-- The circus would leave before night, so our show would have a pretty good chance.
-- I went to the circus and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent.
-- Well, all through the circus they done the most astonish-ing things; and all the time that clown carried on so it most killed the people.
-- The minute he was on, the horse begun to rip and tear and jump and cavort around, with two circus men hanging on to his bridle trying to hold him, and the drunk man hanging on to his neck, and his heels flying in the air every jump, and the whole crowd of people standing up shouting and laughing till tears rolled down.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the applause grew to a roar when Pinocchio, the famous Donkey, appeared in the circus ring.
-- I was taken to the fair and sold to a Circus Owner, who tried to make me dance and jump through the rings.
-- Not knowing what to do with a lame donkey, the Circus Owner sent me to the market place and you bought me."
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