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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Nautilus entered the brittle mass like a wedge, and split it with frightful crackings.
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 had been a split in the Cabinet; the minister for Education had resigned owing to adverse criticism.
-- But underneath she knew the split was coming, and her hatred of him was subconscious and intense.
-- There always seemed an interval, a strange split between what she seemed to feel and experience, and what she actually said and thought.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a violent wind, as well as thunder, and either one or the other split a tree off at the corner of the building: a huge bough fell across the roof, and knocked down a portion of the east chimney stack, sending a clatter of stones and soot into the kitchen fire.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I lit the block of camphor and flung it to the ground, and as it split and flared up and drove back the Morlocks and the shadows, I knelt down and lifted her.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just at the door the captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to the chine had it not been intercepted by our big signboard of Admiral Benbow.
-- That's what all you gentlemen split on, first and last.
-- Split my sides, I've a sick heart to sail with the likes of you!"
-- First and last, we've split upon Jim Hawkins!"
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