pillar是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 柱, 栋梁，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he spoke he began stripping the spoils from the son of Paeon, but Alexandrus husband of lovely Helen aimed an arrow at him, leaning against a pillar of the monument which men had raised to Ilus son of Dardanus, a ruler in days of old.
-- I am not afraid that the Tro-jans, who have got over the wall in force, will be victorious in any other part, for the Achaeans can hold all of them in check, but I much fear that some evil will befall us here where furious Hector, who boasts himself the son of great Jove himself, is leading them on like a pillar of flame.
-- Then fell Alcathous son of noble Aesyetes; he was son-in-law to Anchises, having married his eldest daughter Hippodameia, who was the darling of her father and mother, and excelled all her generation in beauty, accomplishments, and under-standing, wherefore the bravest man in all Troy had taken her to wife him did Neptune lay low by the hand of Idome-neus, blinding his bright eyes and binding his strong limbs in fetters so that he could neither go back nor to one side, but stood stock still like pillar or lofty tree when Idome-neus struck him with a spear in the middle of his chest.
-- Then Jove lord of the storm-cloud said to Apol-lo, 'Dear Phoebus, go, I pray you, and take Sarpedon out of range of the weapons; cleanse the black blood from off him, and then bear him a long way off where you may wash him in the river, anoint him with ambrosia, and clothe him in immortal raiment; this done, commit him to the arms of the two fleet messengers, Death, and Sleep, who will carry him straightway to the rich land of Lycia, where his broth-ers and kinsmen will inter him, and will raise both mound and pillar to his memory, in due honour to the dead.'
-- Automedon, valiant son of Diores, lashed them again and again; many a time did he speak kindly to them, and many a time did he upbraid them, but they would neither go back to the ships by the waters of the broad Hellespont, nor yet into battle among the Achaeans; they stood with their chariot stock still, as a pillar set over the tomb of some dead man or woman, and bowed their heads to the ground.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mender of roads, and two hundred and fifty particular friends, stood with folded arms at the fountain, 328 A tale of two citieslooking at the pillar of fire in the sky.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Turning like a headed deer, he shot, with the swiftness of an arrow, through a pillar of forked flame, and passing the whole multitude harmless, he appeared on the opposite side of the clearing.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He leaned against a pillar and gloated.
-- I did expect I'd have to follow you out on the road and be a hobo, but I never expected to be a Pillar of the Community.
-- When Holabird was gone, driving away in his neat coupe (he often explained that his wife and he could afford a chauffeur, but they preferred to spend the money on other things), Martin was conscious of Terry Wickett, leaning against a gnawed wooden pillar of the wharf-house, as though he had been there for hours.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Filled with this affectionate and touching sorrow, he had solemnly confided her to his son Sampson as an invaluable auxiliary; and from the old gentleman's decease to the period of which we treat, Miss Sally Brass had been the prop and pillar of his business.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "'Tis blowed about from pillar to post quite common," said Matthew.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mother hadalways been just as she was, a pillar of strength, a fount of wisdom, the one person who knew the answers toeverything.
-- She pounded her clenched fist against the tall white pillar beside her, and she wished that she were Samson, sothat she could pull down all of Twelve Oaks and destroy every person in it.
-- She sprawled backagainst a pillar of the porch and with a shaking hand unbuttoned her basque halfway down her bosom.
-- She lay back against the pillar in silence and Prissy, aware of her mood, tiptoed away into the darkness of theporch.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old gentleman, however, experienced so much difficulty in getting his gloves on, that Wemmick found it necessary to put him with his back against a pillar, and then to get behind the pillar himself and pull away at them, while I for my part held the old gentleman round the waist, that he might present an equal and safe resistance.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the large pocket, on the right side of his middle cover' (so I translate the word ranfulo, by which they meant my breeches,) 'we saw a hol-low pillar of iron, about the length of a man, fastened to a strong piece of timber larger than the pillar; and upon one side of the pillar, were huge pieces of iron sticking out, cut into strange figures, which we know not what to make of.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then take your tea at once I beg,' said Flora, 'and this wing of fowl and bit of ham, don't mind me or wait for me, because I always carry in this tray myself to Mr F.'s Aunt who breakfasts in bed and a charming old lady too and very clever, Portrait of Mr F. behind the door and very like though too much forehead and as to a pillar with a marble pavement and balustrades and a mountain, I never saw him near it nor not likely in the wine trade, excellent man but not at all in that way.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times, who built him a lofty stone pillar in the desert and spent the whole latter portion of his life on its summit, hoisting his food from the ground with a tackle; in him we have a remarkable instance of a dauntless stander-of-mast-heads; who was not to be driven from his place by fogs or frosts, rain, hail, or sleet; but valiantly facing everything out to the last, literally died at his post.
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