gas是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 气体； 煤气； 汽油； 毒气vt. 毒(死) ； 加油，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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There electricity, better than gas itself, did all the cooking.
-- When the apparatus is at work this gas becomes luminous, giving out a white and continuous light.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was, however, evident to the voyagers that the gas was failing, and that the balloon could no longer be sustained in the higher regions.
-- The gas escaped without any possibility of retaining it.
-- But after being suspended for an instant aloft, the balloon began to redescend, the gas escaping by the rent which it was impossible to repair.
-- Half an hour later the land was not more than a mile off, but the balloon, exhausted, flabby, hanging in great folds, had gas in its upper part alone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the baby too, who had never closed an eye all night, but had sat as good as gold, trying to force a large orange into his mouth, and gazing intently at the lights in the chandelier there he was, sitting up in his mother's lap, staring at the gas without winking, and making indentations in his soft visage with an oyster-shell, to that degree that a heart of iron must have loved him!In short, there never was a more successful supper; and when Kit ordered in a glass of something hot to finish with, and proposed Mr and Mrs Garland before sending it round, there were not six happier people in all the world.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I needed two little dynamos, and these I worked with a cheap gas engine.
-- She was a little doubtful and tried to peer past me into the room; strange enough to her no doubt bare walls, uncurtained windows, truckle- bed, with the gas engine vibrating, and the seethe of the radiant points, and that faint ghastly stinging of chloroform in the air.
-- I stopped the gas engine, felt for and stroked the beast, which was still insensible, and then, being tired, left it sleeping on the invisible pillow and went to bed.
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