bushel是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 蒲式耳(容量单位)，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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they began feeding again Kotick saw that their upper lip was split into two pieces that they could twitch apart about a foot and bring together again with a whole bushel of seaweed between the splits.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One kind they dump on me like a bushel of potatoes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among them I remember a double set ofpigs' trotters, a huge pin-cushion, half a bushel or so of apples, apair of jet ear- rings, some Spanish onions, a box of dominoes, acanary bird and cage, and a leg of pickled pork.
-- Why, the Ecclesiastical Delegates werethe advocates without any business, who had looked on at theround game when it was playing on both courts, and had seen thecards shuffled, and cut, and played, and had talked to all theplayers about it, and now came fresh, as judges, to settle the matterto the satisfaction of everybody!Discontented people might talk ofcorruption in the Commons, closeness in the Commons, and thenecessity of reforming the Commons, said Mr. Spenlow solemnly,in conclusion; but when the price of wheat per bushel had beenhighest, the Commons had been busiest; and a man might lay hishand upon his heart, and say this to the whole world.- 'Touch theCommons, and down comes the country!'
-- I have never, to thishour, got the better of that bushel of wheat.
-- I don't know now, exactly, what it has to do with me, orwhat right it has to crush me, on an infinite variety of occasions;but whenever I see my old friend the bushel brought in by thehead and shoulders (as he always is, I observe), I give up a subjectfor lost.
-- I must say that I had my doubts about the strict justice of this, andwas not even frightened out of them by the bushel of wheat whichreconciles all anomalies.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, the very same evening William Larkins came over with a large basket of apples, the same sort of apples, a bushel at least, and I was very much obliged, and went down and spoke to William Larkins and said every thing, as you may suppose.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The news is, that after Miss Everdene got home she went out again to see all was safe, as she usually do, and coming in found Baily Pennyways creeping down the granary steps with half a bushel of barley.
-- But under your bushel, Joseph!under your bushel with 'ee!A strange desire, neighbours, this desire to hide, and no praise due.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On my objecting to this retreat, he took us into another room with a dinner-table for thirty, and in the grate a scorched leaf of a copy-book under a bushel of coal-dust.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If another Gunpowder Plot had been discovered half an hour before the lighting of the match, nobody would have been justified in saving the parliament until there had been half a score of boards, half a bushel of minutes, several sacks of official memoranda, and a family-vault full of ungrammatical correspondence, on the part of the Circumlocution Office.
-- Her next surprise was to find him equally at his ease within the prison; to hear of his presenting himself among the visitors at her father's Sunday levee; to see him arm in arm with a Collegiate friend about the yard; to learn, from Fame, that he had greatly distinguished himself one evening at the social club that held its meetings in the Snuggery, by addressing a speech to the members of the institution, singing a song, and treating the company to five gallons of ale report madly added a bushel of shrimps.
-- The rich and beautiful wardrobe purchased by these agents, in the course of a few weeks made its way through the intervening country, bristling with custom-houses, garrisoned by an immense army of shabby mendicants in uniform who incessantly repeated the Beggar's Petition over it, as if every individual warrior among them were the ancient Belisarius: and of whom there were so many Legions, that unless the Courier had expended just one bushel and a half of silver money relieving their distresses, they would have worn the wardrobe out before it got to Rome, by turning it over and over.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Five bushels," replied the engineer; "and a hundred and thirty thousand grains a bushel will make six hundred and fifty thousand grains."
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