tin是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 罐头； 锡a. 锡制的vt. 镀锡于，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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You can't ravish a tin of sardines.
-- An' tea's on t' mantel ower yer 'ead,' She got the black tea-pot, and the tin of tea from the mantel-shelf.
-- I tell you, every generation breeds a more rabbity generation, with india rubber tubing for guts and tin legs and tin faces.
-- Tin people!It's all a steady sort of bolshevism just killing off the human thing, and worshipping the mechanical thing.
-- He goes about as usual, with his Miller-of-the-Dee air, I care for nobody, no not I, if nobody care for me!Nevertheless, I shrewdly suspect he feels like a dog with a tin can tied to its tail: though he makes a very good show of pretending the tin can isn't there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a close, confined room, poorly furnished; and the chimney smoked to boot, or the tin screen at the top of the fireplace was superfluous; but constant pains and care had made it neat, and even, after its kind, comfortable.
-- Pardon me, but I think you really have no idea how the human bees will swarm to the beating of any old tin kettle; in that fact lies the complete manual of governing them.
-- When the 'three kidney ones,' which were to be a blind to the conversation, were set before them on three little tin platters, each kidney one ornamented with a hole at the top, into which the civil man poured hot gravy out of a spouted can as if he were feeding three lamps, Flora took out her pocket-handkerchief.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It must be very disagreeable to sleep in a tent, and eat all sorts of bad-tasting things, and drink out of a tin mug,' sighed Amy.
-- Very clever were some of their productions, pasteboard guitars, antique lamps made of old-fashioned butter boats covered with silver paper, gorgeous robes of old cotton, glittering with tin spangles from a pickle factory, and armor covered with the same useful diamond shaped bits left inn sheets when the lids of preserve pots were cut out.
-- The bag is opened, and several quarts of tin money shower down upon the stage till it is quite glorified with the glitter.
-- laughed the ghost, and having peeped through the keyhole at the princesses spinning away for dear life, the evil spirit picked up her victim and put him in a large tin box, where there were eleven other knights packed together without their heads, like sardines, who all rose and began to...' 'Dance a hornpipe,' cut in Fred, as Jo paused for breath, 'and, as they danced, the rubbishy old castle turned to a man-of-war in full sail.
-- Jo's desk up here was an old tin kitchen which hung against the wall.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Not that," said Stubb, "no, no, it's a coffee-pot, Mr. Starbuck; he's coming off to make us our coffee, is the Yarman; don't you see that big tin can there alongside of him? that's his boiling water.
-- Every keel a sunbeam!Hurrah! Here we go like three tin kettles at the tail of a mad cougar!This puts me in mind of fastening to an elephant in a tilbury on a plain makes the wheel-spokes fly, boys, when you fasten to him that way; and there's danger of being pitched out too, when you strike a hill.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the next cell was another man, who was going to the same prison for hawking tin saucepans without license; thereby doing something for his living, in defiance of the Stamp-office.
-- Mrs. Corney shook her head mournfully, as if deploring the mental blindness of those paupers who did not know it; and thrusting a silver spoon (private property) into the inmost recesses of a two-ounce tin tea-caddy, proceeded to make the tea.
-- Stretching forth her trembling fingers as she spoke, the old creature shook them exultingly before her face, and fumbling in her pocket, brought out an old time-discoloured tin snuff-box, from which she shook a few grains into the outstretched palm of her companion, and a few more into her own.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A boy coming out of a gate with a tin milk bucket gave Hurstwood his first objectionable greeting.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, they rub an old tin lamp or an iron ring, and then the genies come tearing in, with the thunder and lightning a-ripping around and the smoke a-rolling, and everything they're told to do they up and do it.
-- And what's more if I was one of them I would see a man in Jericho before I would drop my business and come to him for the rub- bing of an old tin lamp.'
-- I got an old tin lamp and an iron ring, and went out in the woods and rubbed and rubbed till I sweat like an Injun, calculating to build a palace and sell it; but it warn't no use, none of the genies come.
-- I borrowed three dollars from Judge Thatcher, and pap took it and got drunk, and went a-blow-ing around and cussing and whooping and carrying on; and he kept it up all over town, with a tin pan, till most midnight; then they jailed him, and next day they had him before court, and jailed him again for a week.
-- I took all the coffee and sugar there was, and all the ammunition; I took the wadding; I took the bucket and gourd; I took a dipper and a tin cup, and my old saw and two blankets, and the skillet and the coffee-pot.
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