portable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 轻便的， 手提(式) 的， 可移动的，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：
-- The back one was intended for the provisions and luggage, and M. Olbinett's portable kitchen.
-- The oudoupa provisions were divided and formed very portable packets.
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：
-- The father and the lover found instant relief in the search; though each was condemned again to experience the misery of an uncertainty that was hardly less insup- portable than the most revolting truth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Master Copperfield, if I might ask you'I understood Mrs.Micawber now, and begged her to make use of me to any extent, Ibegan to dispose of the more portable articles of property that veryevening; and went out on a similar expedition almost everymorning, before I went to Murdstone and Grinby's.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It don't signify to you with your brilliant lookout, but as to myself, my guiding-star always is, 'Get hold of portable property'."
-- Still you see, as far as it goes, a pair of pigeons are portable property all the same."
-- "Then is it your opinion," I inquired, with some little indignation, "that a man should never--""--Invest portable property in a friend?"
-- Unless he wants to get rid of the friend,--and then it becomes a question how much portable property it may be worth to get rid of him."
-- She might have been some two or three years younger than Wemmick, and I judged her to stand possessed of portable property.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There was absolutely nowhere to sit down, nowhere, a man just above sang 'Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep' the whole way; he was blind and he had a small organ, one of those portable organs, and he expected money; so you can imagine what that was like; there came a constant smell of luncheon from below, and puffs of hot oily machinery; the journey took hours and hours and hours; and for miles, literally for miles, dreadful boys ran with us on the shore, in that awful Thames mud, going in up to the waist they had their trousers turned back, and they went up to their hips in that indescribable Thames mud, their faces always turned to us, and screaming, exactly like carrion creatures, screaming ''Ere y'are sir, 'ere y'are sir, 'ere y'are sir,' exactly like some foul carrion objects, perfectly obscene; and paterfamilias on board, laughing when the boys went right down in that awful mud, occasionally throwing them a ha'penny.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Utensils:-1 iron pot, 6 copper saucepans, 3 iron dishes, 10 metal plates, 2 kettles, 1 portable stove, 6 table-knives, Books:-1 Bible, 1 atlas, 1 dictionary of the different Polynesian idioms, 1 dictionary of natural science, in six volumes; 3 reams of white paper, 2 books with blank pages.
-- They hoped besides to supply themselves on the road, and Neb took care not to forget the portable stove.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a joke of a compact and portable nature, turning on the difference between Eton pears and Parliamentary pairs; but it was a joke, a refined relish of which would seem to have appeared to Lord Decimus impossible to be had without a thorough and intimate acquaintance with the tree.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After being severed from the whale, the white-horse is first cut into portable oblongs ere going to the mincer.
-- Meanwhile, the spade-man stands on the sheet itself, perpendicularly chopping it into the portable horse-pieces.
-- Availing himself of the mild, summer-cool weather that now reigned in these latitudes, and in preparation for the peculiarly active pursuits shortly to be anticipated, Perth, the begrimed, blistered old blacksmith, had not removed his portable forge to the hold again, after concluding his contributory work for Ahab's leg, but still retained it on deck, fast lashed to ringbolts by the foremast; being now almost incessantly invoked by the headsmen, and harpooneers, and bowsmen to do some little job for them; altering, or repairing, or new shaping their various weapons and boat furniture.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next day I made another voyage, and now, having plundered the ship of what was portable and fit to hand out, I began with the cables.
-- I could make it spread, but if it did not let down too, and draw in, it was not portable for me any way but just over my head, which would not do.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a third room for possible use as a kitchen, where Drouet had Carrie establish a little portable gas stove for the preparation of small lunches, oysters, Welsh rarebits, and the like, of which he was exceedingly fond; and, lastly, a bath.
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