manual是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 手工的, 用手的; n. 手册; 便览，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：
-- It was "Richardson's Compendium," a work in great repute in England, and more in agreement with modern science than the manual in use in the Normal School in Melbourne.
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：
-- It would seem long practice had rendered this manual accompani-ment necessary; for it did not cease until the preposition which the poet had selected for the close of his verse had been duly delivered like a word of two syllables.
-- The manual rites then ceased and all present re-verted to the more spiritual part of the ceremonies.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now that I am leaving this field where I have labored so long and happily, I want to ask every man jack of you to read, before you begin to practice medicine, not merely your Rosenau and Howell and Gray, but also, as a preparation for being that which all good citizens must be, namely, practical men, a most valuable little manual of modern psychology, 'How to Put Pep in Salesmanship,' by Grosvenor A. Bibby.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides mental power, he also possessed great manual dexterity.
-- At any rate their clothes would last at least six months longer, for they were strong, and could resist the wear of manual labor.
-- Besides he improved himself during the leisure hours which manual occupations left to him; he read the books found in the case; and after the practical lessons which were taught by the very necessity of their position, he found in the engineer for science, and the reporter for languages, masters who were delighted to complete his education.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, Mrs. Corney that was, had tried the tears, because they were less troublesome than a manual assault; but, she was quite prepared to make trial of the latter mode of proceeding, as Mr. Bumble was not long in discovering.
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