drain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 排水管, 排水沟; 消耗; v. 排水, 耗尽，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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was like the mouth of a drain at the edge of the pavement, and therefore did not offer an easy passage to the settlers; but Neb and Pencroft, taking their pickaxes, soon made it of a suitable height.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every evening, and often in the day-time too, he was absent, alone; and although she well knew where he went, and why too well from the constant drain upon her scanty purse and from his haggard looks he evaded all inquiry, maintained a strict reserve, and even shunned her presence.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he repeated, cheerfully, "and drain a Christmas beaker with us, stranger!"
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I don't have a drain o' rum, Jim, I'll have the horrors; I seen some on 'em already.
-- I remembered that the most easterly of the rivers which drain into Captain Kidd's anchorage ran from the two-peaked hill upon my left, and I bent my course in that direction that I might pass the stream while it was small.
-- he asked; and when I had refused: "Well, I'll take a drain myself, Jim," said he.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You can crawl through the drain into the kitchen and then into the pantry, and there you will find cakes, ham, beef, cold chicken, roast pig, apple-dumplings, and every-thing that your heart can wish.'
-- The wolf did not want to be asked twice; so that very night he went to the house and crawled through the drain into the kitchen, and then into the pantry, and ate and drank there to his heart's content.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A drain for the boy,' said Toby, half-filling a wine-glass.
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