split是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. /vi. 劈开, 使裂开; 分离，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These they burned upon the split logs of firewood, but they spitted the inward meats, and held them in the flames to cook.
-- Achilles struck him full on the head as he was coming on to-wards him, and split it clean in two; whereon he fell heavily to the ground and Achilles vaunted over him saying, 'You be low, son of Otrynteus, mighty hero; your death is here, but your lineage is on the Gygaean lake where your father's estate lies, by Hyllus, rich in fish, and the eddying waters of Hermus.'
-- They split the trees and bound them behind the mules, which then wended their way as they best could through the thick brushwood on to the plain.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They split a panel, I saw, and in another moment they had broken away the staples of the bolts and stood in the open doorway.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- as I came in, and my Ape-man stood in the dim light of the doorway and held out a split cocoa-nut to me as I crawled into the other corner and squatted down.
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.
-- The split lips moved and twitched; and the glassy green eyes stared, but they did not speak.
-- 'They say that when a mule trips you can split a hen's ear,' said Billy.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They split them open and put them in the sun to dry.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While Mr Quilp, in his uproarious hospitality, seated himself upon an empty beer-barrel, vaunted the place as the most beautiful and comfortable in the three kingdoms, and elevating his glass, drank to their next merry-meeting in that jovial spot; and Mr Brass, with the rain plashing down into his tea-cup, made a dismal attempt to pluck up his spirits and appear at his ease; and Tom Scott, who was in waiting at the door under an old umbrella, exulted in his agonies, and bade fair to split his sides with laughing; while all this was passing, Miss Sally Brass, unmindful of the wet which dripped down upon her own feminine person and fair apparel, sat placidly behind the tea-board, erect and grizzly, contemplating the unhappiness of her brother with a mind at ease, and content, in her amiable disregard of self, to sit there all night, witnessing the torments which his avaricious and grovelling nature compelled him to endure and forbade him to resent.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Grapes, split and crushed under foot, lay about everywhere.
-- Among the day's unrealities would be roads where the bright red vines were looped and garlanded together on trees for many miles; woods of olives; white villages and towns on hill-sides, lovely without, but frightful in their dirt and poverty within; crosses by the way; deep blue lakes with fairy islands, and clustering boats with awnings of bright colours and sails of beautiful forms; vast piles of building mouldering to dust; hanging-gardens where the weeds had grown so strong that their stems, like wedges driven home, had split the arch and rent the wall; stone-terraced lanes, with the lizards running into and out of every chink; beggars of all sorts everywhere: pitiful, picturesque, hungry, merry; children beggars and aged beggars.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if, in the face of all this, you still declare that whaling has no 脙娄sthetically noble associations connected with it, then am I ready to shiver fifty lances with you there, and unhorse you with a split helmet every time.
-- "If ye see a white one, split your lungs for him!
-- cried Ahab, "aye, Queequeg, the harpoons lie all twisted and wrenched in him; aye, Daggoo, his spout is a big one, like a whole shock of wheat, and white as a pile of our Nantucket wool after the great annual sheep-shearing; aye, Tashtego, and he fan-tails like a split jib in a squall.
-- This is the sort of weather when brave hearts snap ashore, and keeled hulls split at sea.
-- Like a savage tigress that tossing in the jungle overlays her own cubs, so the sea dashes even the mightiest whales against the rocks, and leaves them there side by side with the split wrecks of ships.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Come!I'll split the diff'erence, gen'l'men,' urged Gamfield.
-- 'Stand off from me, or I'll split your head against the wall.'
-- 'I might have got clear off, if I'd split upon her; mightn't I, Fagin?'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said that was big enough; but then, as I had taken no care of it, and it had lain two or three and twenty years there, the sun had so split and dried it, that it was rotten.
-- When this was done, and all safe upon deck, the captain ordered the mate, with three men, to break into the round-house, where the new rebel captain lay, who, having taken the alarm, had got up, and with two men and a boy had got firearms in their hands; and when the mate, with a crow, split open the door, the new captain and his men fired bold-ly among them, and wounded the mate with a musket ball, which broke his arm, and wounded two more of the men, but killed nobody.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said he would split open a raw Irish potato and stick the quarter in between and keep it there all night, and next morning you couldn't see no brass, and it wouldn't feel greasy no more, and so anybody in town would take it in a minute, let alone a hair-ball.
-- We split the ball open with the hatchet, and there was a spool in it.
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