chestnut是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 栗子； 栗树； 栗色，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：
-- The driver was a long way off, but Idomeneus could hear him shouting, and could see the foremost horse quite plainly a chestnut with a round white star, like the moon, on its forehead.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the shed there were five horses in their separate stalls, and Vronsky knew that his chief rival, Gladiator, a very tall chestnut horse, had been brought there, and must be standing among them.
-- Just as he was passing along the passage, the boy opened the door into the second horse-box on the left, and Vronsky caught a glimpse of a big chestnut horse with white legs.
-- Frou-Frou, excited and over-nervous, had lost the first moment, and several horses had started before her, but before reaching the stream, Vronsky, who was holding in the mare with all his force as she tugged at the bridle, easily overtook three, and there were left in front of him Mahotin's chestnut Gladiator, whose hind-quarters were moving lightly and rhythmically up and down exactly in front of Vronsky, and in front of all, the dainty mare Diana bearing Kuzovlev more dead than alive.
-- He could not yet make out what had happened, when the white legs of a chestnut horse flashed by close to him, and Mahotin passed at a swift gallop.
-- On coming back with Kitty from the springs, the prince, who had asked the colonel, and Marya Yevgenyevna, and Varenka all to come and have coffee with them, gave orders for a table and chairs to be taken into the garden under the chestnut tree, and lunch to be laid there.
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：
-- 'A pine grew then where this chestnut now stands.
-- Uncas, clear out the spring, while your father and I make a cover for their tender heads of these chestnut shoots, and a bed of grass and leaves.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This kind-hearted man told Nekhludoff all his story, and was about to ask him about his own when their attention was attracted by a rubber-tired carriage drawn by a blooded chestnut horse.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dusky, filmed, chestnut roof, braced and tied in by huge collars, curves, and diagonals, was far nobler in design, because more wealthy in material, than nine-tenths of those in our modern churches.
-- The lanceolate windows, the time-eaten archstones and chamfers, the orientation of the axis, the misty chestnut work of the rafters, referred to no exploded fortifying art or worn-out religious creed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the shades of colour were beautiful, having a yellow beak, brown feet and claws, nut-coloured wings with purple tips, pale yellow at the back of the neck and head, and emerald colour at the throat, chestnut on the breast and belly.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the raven drove along her four chestnut horses, she said sor-rowfully to herself, 'I know he has fallen asleep.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'm not!And if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty,' cried Jo, pulling off her net, and shaking down a chestnut mane.
-- He came in gorgeous array, with plumed cap, red cloak, chestnut lovelocks, a guitar, and the boots, of course.
-- The little grave where her infant sleeps Is 'neath the chestnut tree.
-- Mrs. March folded the wavy chestnut lock, and laid it away with a short gray one in her desk.
-- said Mrs. March gratefully, as her eyes went from her husband's letter to Beth's smiling face, and her hand carressed the brooch made of gray and golden, chestnut and dark brown hair, which the girls had just fastened on her breast.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even in Broadway and Chestnut streets, Mediterranean mariners will sometimes jostle the affrighted ladies.
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