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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few wooden benches fastened against the gaily-colored walls, about ten stools, two oak chests on tin mugs, a large long table where twenty guests could sit comfortably, composed the furniture, which looked in perfect keeping with the solid house and robust inmates.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A tin box for botanical specimens hung over his shoulder and he carried a green butterfly-net in one of his hands.
-- 'He grazed his cattle on these slopes, and he learned to dig for tin when the bronze sword began to supersede the stone axe.
-- 'There is an old tin mine on an island in the heart of the mire.
-- This paste in the tin is no doubt the luminous mixture with which the creature was daubed.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I looked, and there he held a cross, just taken off his own neck, evi-dently, a large tin one, made after the Byzantine pattern.
-- The prince took off his tin cross, Parfen his gold one, and the exchange was made.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he spoke his strong hand hurled his javelin from him, and the spear struck Achilles on the leg beneath the knee; the greave of newly wrought tin rang loudly, but the spear recoiled from the body of him whom it had struck, and did not pierce it, for the gods gift stayed it.
-- The sand and grit rained thick on the driver, and the chariot inlaid with gold and tin ran close behind his fleet horses.
-- So he said 'Antilochus, if you would have me find Eumelus another prize, I will give him the bronze breastplate with a rim of tin running all round it which I took from Asteropaeus.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog to and fro on the floor, up and down, and around in great circles, but his eyes were red and he held on as the body cart-whipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap dish and the flesh brush, and banged against the tin side of the bath.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under a cover were the remains of a piece of cheese, and in a tin box was a crust of bread.
-- There was a tin of tobacco on the table, and, taking out his pipe, he filled it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hero's wife and one child, the hobby-horse, the doctor, the foreign gentleman who not being familiar with the language is unable in the representation to express his ideas otherwise than by the utterance of the word 'Shallabalah' three distinct times, the radical neighbour who will by no means admit that a tin bell is an organ, the executioner, and the devil, were all here.
-- Nodding his approval of this decisive and manly course of procedure, the landlord retired to draw the beer, and presently returning with it, applied himself to warm the same in a small tin vessel shaped funnel-wise, for the convenience of sticking it far down in the fire and getting at the bright places.
-- Kit entered the office in a great tremor, for he was not used to going among strange ladies and gentlemen, and the tin boxes and bundles of dusty papers had in his eyes an awful and venerable air.
-- The two men being well used to it, did a great deal in a short time; and Mrs Jarley served out the tin tacks from a linen pocket like a toll-collector's which she wore for the purpose, and encouraged her assistants to renewed exertion.
-- CHAPTER 34In course of time, that is to say, after a couple of hours or so, of diligent application, Miss Brass arrived at the conclusion of her task, and recorded the fact by wiping her pen upon the green gown, and taking a pinch of snuff from a little round tin box which she carried in her pocket.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I saved some tea for you, but I fear it is cold," said Theodosia, bringing down from a shelf a pot, wrapped in a rag, and a tin cup.
-- The beverage was perfectly cold, and tasted more of tin than of tea, but Maslova poured out a cupful and began to drink.
-- The tin lamp threw a bright light on those around it, but the bunks were in the shade and vacillating shadows moved along the walls.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In one place I suddenly found myself near the model of a tin mine, and then by the merest accident I discovered, in an air-tight case, two dynamite cartridges!I shouted 'Eureka!'
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was dressed in tin armour, which seemed to fit him very badly, and he had a queer-shaped little deal box fastened across his shoulder, upside-down, and with the lid hanging open.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under that, the miscellany began a quadrant, a tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells.
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