thread是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 线， 细丝； 线索， 思路； 螺纹v. 穿线， 穿过，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now I pass on to another thread which I have extricated out of the tangled skein, the mystery of the sobs in the night, of the tear-stained face of Mrs. Barrymore, of the secret journey of the butler to the western lattice window.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, I hope I shall not interfere with the proper se-quence of my narrative too much, if I diverge for a moment at this point, in order to explain the mutual relations be-tween General Epanchin's family and others acting a part in this history, at the time when we take up the thread of their destiny.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And bymeby they got closer and closer, and then they went arm-in-crook, like courting complete hok-hok!like courting complete hok! courting complete " Losing the thread of his narrative at this point simultaneously with his loss of breath, their informant looked up and down the field apparently for some clue to it.
-- Boldwood's eyes dwelt upon its many sparkles a long time, though that its material aspect concerned him little was plain from his manner and mien, which were those of a mind following out the presumed thread of that jewel's future history.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am giving you my name like Ariadne's clue of thread to take with you into the labyrinth; make no unworthy use of it," she said, with a queenly glance and curve of her throat; "give it back to me unsullied.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, he usually brought her some little gift fromNassau which he assured her he had purchased especially for her and blockaded in at risk of his life papers of pinsand needles, buttons, spools of silk thread and hairpins.
-- Itwas a small "housewife," made of flannel, containing the whole precious pack of needles Rhett had brought her fromNassau, three of her linen handkerchiefs, obtained from the same source, two spools of thread and a small pair ofscissors.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took out his black pipe and was going to fill it with negro-head, when, looking at the tangle of tobacco in his hand, he seemed to think it might perplex the thread of his narrative.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have seen a white mare of our family thread a needle (which I lent her on purpose) with that joint.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Louisa, holding her hand, could feel no pulse; but kissing it, could see a slight thin thread of life in fluttering motion.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Again," thought I, reasoning as calmly as was possible, "there is another sure means of not losing my way, a thread to guide me through the labyrinthine subterraneous retreat--one which I had forgotten--my faithful river."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But a thread of smoke rose from the chim-ney, and the little railed-in garden in the front of the house was dug and kept very tidy.
-- But which room she was in, the woman who held the other end of the frail thread which drew him so mercilessly, that he did not know.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Flintwinch had introduced into the web that his mind was busily weaving, in that old workshop where the loom of his youth had stood, the last thread wanting to the pattern.
-- Her severe face had no thread of relaxation in it, by which any explorer could have been guided to the gloomy labyrinth of her thoughts.
-- Bar was a man of great variety; but one leading thread ran through the woof of all his patterns.
-- What time the Courier in the rumble, smoking Young John's best cigars, left a little thread of thin light smoke behind perhaps as he built a castle or two with stray pieces of Mr Dorrit's money.
-- So errant had the prisoner's attention already grown in solitude and dejection, and so accustomed had it become to commune with only one silent figure within the ever-frowning walls, that Clennam had to shake off a kind of stupor before he could look at Mr Rugg, recall the thread of his talk, and hurriedly say, 'I am unchanged, and unchangeable, in my decision.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Interweaving in its proper place this darker thread with the story as publicly narrated on the ship, the whole of this strange affair I now proceed to put on lasting record.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, the shining sword of her wrath was but weakly suspended by a thread of thought.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I got up and turned around in my tracks three times and crossed my breast every time; and then I tied up a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep witches away.
-- We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher-knife with- out any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old bedquilt off the bed, and a reticule with needles and pins and beeswax and buttons and thread and all such truck in it, and a hatchet and some nails, and a fishline as thick as my little finger with some mon- strous hooks on it, and a roll of buckskin, and a leather dog-collar, and a horseshoe, and some vials of medicine that didn't have no label on them; and just as we was leaving I found a tolerable good curry-comb, and Jim he found a ratty old fiddle-bow, and a wooden leg.
-- Bless you, child, when you set out to thread a needle don't hold the thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hold the needle still and poke the thread at it; that's the way a woman most always does, but a man always does t'other way.
-- Tom give him a dime, and said we wouldn't tell no- body; and told him to buy some more thread to tie up his wool with; and then looks at Jim, and says: 'I wonder if Uncle Silas is going to hang this nigger.
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