brake是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 刹车，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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An elegant brake was intended for the ladies, in which the coachman could exhibit his skill in driving four-in-hand.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fern fronds he had stood between came swishing together, I pushed out of the brake after him, and was astonished to find him swinging cheerfully by one lank arm from a rope of creeper that looped down from the foliage overhead.
-- After him from the brake came a monstrous lout, a thing of horse and rhinoceros, chewing a straw as it came; then appeared the Swine-woman and two Wolf-women; then the Fox-bear witch, with her red eyes in her peaked red face, and then others, all hurrying eagerly.
-- The chase lay through the brake for perhaps a quarter of a mile, and then plunged into a dense thicket, which retarded our movements exceeding-ly, though we went through it in a crowd together, fronds flicking into our faces, ropy creepers catching us under the chin or gripping our ankles, thorny plants hooking into and tearing cloth and flesh together.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- THE HOLLOW AMID THE FERNSThe hill opposite Bathsheba's dwelling extended, a mile off, into an uncultivated tract of land, dotted at this season with tall thickets of brake fern, plump and diaphanous from recent rapid growth, and radiant in hues of clear and untainted green.
-- On looking into the place, it occurred to her that she had seen it by daylight on some previous occasion, and that what appeared like an impassable thicket was in reality a brake of fern now withering fast.
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：
-- The brake was jammed.
-- But it was all right, and the brake was off.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Margaret seemed to find it a little hard to tell hers, and waved a brake before her face, as if to disperse imaginary gnats, while she said slowly, 'I should like a lovely house, full of all sorts of luxurious things nice food, pretty clothes, handsome furniture, pleasant people, and heaps of money.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hurstwood found, however, that handling a brake and regulating speed were not so instantly mastered as he had imagined.
-- Hurstwood held to his brake and lever, pale and very uncertain what to do.
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