tomb是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 坟， 冢，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：
-- She passed Sal, a complete tomb of sand lying barren and desolate, and went on among the vast coral reefs and athwart the Isle of St. Jacques, with its long chain of basaltic mountains, till she entered the port of Villa Praya and anchored in eight fathoms of water before the town.
-- But a powerful and formidable chief destined to speedy deification, was honored with a tomb worthy of his exploits.
-- "The tomb of Kara-Tete!"
-- "Because the chief is buried here, and the tomb protects us, because the mountain is tabooed."
-- He succeeded in his dangerous attempt, and had arrived the previous night at the tomb of Kara-Tete, and there proposed to recruit his strength while he waited in the hope that his friends might, by Divine mercy, find the means of escape.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And those that held Arcadia, under the high mountain of Cyllene, near the tomb of Aepytus, where the people fight hand to hand; the men of Pheneus also, and Orchomenus rich in flocks; of Rhipae, Stratie, and bleak Enispe; of Tegea and fair Mantinea; of Stymphelus and Parrhasia; of these King Agapenor son of Ancaeus was commander, and they had sixty ships.
-- They were gathered in as-sembly, old and young, at Priam's gates, and Iris came close up to Priam, speaking with the voice of Priam's son Polites, who, being fleet of foot, was stationed as watchman for the Trojans on the tomb of old Aesyetes, to look out for any sal-ly of the Achaeans.
-- Men call it Batieia, but the gods know that it is the tomb of lithe Myrine.
-- Then shall some braggart Trojan leap upon your tomb and say, 'Ever thus may Agamemnon wreak his vengeance; he brought his army in vain; he is gone home to his own land with empty ships, and has left Menelaus behind him.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The panorama passed before their eyes like a flash, save when the steam concealed it fitfully from the view; the travellers could scarcely discern the fort of Chupenie, twenty miles south-westward from Benares, the ancient stronghold of the rajahs of Behar; or Ghazipur and its famous rose-water factories; or the tomb of Lord Cornwallis, rising on the left bank of the Ganges; the fortified town of Buxar, or Patna, a large manufacturing and trading-place, where is held the principal opium market of India; or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as English as Manchester or Birmingham, with its iron foundries, edgetool factories, and high chimneys puffing clouds of black smoke heavenward.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His method of engaging himself in this business of purchasing a tomb was that of an absolutely unpractised man.
-- He waited in the yard till the tomb was packed, and saw it placed in the cart and starting on its way to Weatherbury, giving directions to the two men who were to accompany it to inquire of the sexton for the grave of the person named in the inscription.
-- Here now stood the tomb as the men had stated, snow-white and shapely in the gloom, consisting of head and foot-stone, and enclosing border of marble-work uniting them.
-- Bathsheba did not at once perceive that the grand tomb and the disturbed grave were Fanny's, and she looked on both sides and around for some humbler mound, earthed up and clodded in the usual way.
-- Finally, with the superfluous magnanimity of a woman whose narrower instincts have brought down bitterness upon her instead of love, she wiped the mud spots from the tomb as if she rather liked its words than otherwise, and went again home.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We vis-ited the tomb of the illustrious Hampden and the field on which that patriot fell.
-- I entered it and approached the tomb which marked their graves.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes the rallying cry is 'Save the Tomb of Christ from theHeathen!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I judged him to be a bachelor from the frayed condition of his linen, and he appeared to have sustained a good many bereavements; for he wore at least four mourning rings, besides a brooch representing a lady and a weeping willow at a tomb with an urn on it.
-- He then explained this affectionate apostrophe, by touching his brooch representing the lady and the weeping willow at the tomb with the urn upon it, and saying, "Had it made for me, express!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ask me not,' said Flora, 'if I love him still or if he still loves me or what the end is to be or when, we are surrounded by watchful eyes and it may be that we are destined to pine asunder it may be never more to be reunited not a word not a breath not a look to betray us all must be secret as the tomb wonder not therefore that even if I should seem comparatively cold to Arthur or Arthur should seem comparatively cold to me we have fatal reasons it is enough if we understand them hush!'
-- So quietly did the mowing of the old scythe go on, that fully three months had passed unnoticed since the two English brothers had been laid in one tomb in the strangers' cemetery at Rome.
-- What time Young John lay wrapt in peaceful slumber, after composing and arranging the following monumental inscription on his pillow STRANGER!RESPECT THE TOMB OFJOHN CHIVERY, JUNIOR,WHO DIED AT AN ADVANCED AGENOT NECESSARY TO MENTION.HE ENCOUNTERED HIS RIVAL IN A DISTRESSED STATE,AND FELT INCLINEDTO HAVE A ROUND WITH HIM;BUT, FOR THE SAKE OF THE LOVED ONE,CONQUERED THOSE FEELINGS OF BITTERNESS, AND BECAMEMAGNANIMOUS.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal proverb says of them, that they tell no tales, though containing more secrets than the Goodwin Sands; how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city.
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