like是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 喜欢prep. 象； 比如a. 相象的n. 象…一样，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I thought, sir," said Mrs. Hall, "you'd prefer the clock " "Certainly," said the stranger, "certainly but, as a rule, I like to be alone and undisturbed.
-- "And presently," he said, "when the clock-mending is over, I think I should like to have some tea.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The two other men who had escaped so far with me were a man named Helmar, a passenger like myself, and a seaman whose name I don't know, a short sturdy man, with a stammer.
-- They sank like stones.
-- The laugh caught me suddenly like a thing from without.
-- Then just overhead came a sound like an iron bedstead being knocked about, and the low angry growling of some large animal.
-- At the same time my eye caught my hand, thin so that it looked like a dirty skin-purse full of loose bones, and all the business of the boat came back to me.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'To begin a night's work with that noise!Does he think that our buck are like his fat Waingunga bullocks?'
-- Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward, her eyes, like two green moons in the darkness, facing the blazing eyes of Shere Khan.
-- It was Ba-gheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pat-tern of watered silk.
-- Bagheera would lie out on a branch and call, 'Come along, Little Brother,' and at first Mowgli would cling like the sloth, but afterward he would fling himself through the branches almost as boldly as the gray ape.
-- 'They are very like me,' said Mowgli, blowing into the pot as he had seen the woman do.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Like nations of higher pretensions, the American Indian gives a very different account of his own tribe or race from that which is given by other people.
-- A large, civil cocked hat, like those worn by clergymen within the last thirty years, surmounted the whole, furnishing dignity to a good-natured and somewhat vacant countenance, that ap-parently needed such artificial aid, to support the gravity of some high and extraordinary trust.
-- he said, in a voice as re-markable for the softness and sweetness of its tones, as was his person for its rare proportions; 'I may speak of these things, and be no braggart; for I have been down at both havens; that which is situate at the mouth of Thames, and is named after the capital of Old England, and that which is called 'Haven', with the addition of the word 'New'; and have seen the scows and brigantines collecting their droves, like the gathering to the ark, being outward bound to the Island of Jamaica, for the purpose of barter and traffic in four-footed animals; but never before have I beheld a beast which verified the true scripture war-horse like this: 'He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength; he goeth on to meet the armed men.
-- On the con-trary, there was an air of neglect about his person, like that which might have proceeded from great and recent exer-tion, which he had not yet found leisure to repair.
-- His eye, alone, which glistened like a fiery star amid lowering clouds, was to be seen in its state of native wildness.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head, and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being be-lated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak.
-- They are like those little nooks of still water, which border a rapid stream, where we may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbor, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current.
-- His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.
-- From hence the low mur-mur of his pupils' voices, conning over their lessons, might be heard in a drowsy summer's day, like the hum of a bee-hive; interrupted now and then by the authoritative voice of the master, in the tone of menace or command, or, per- The Legend of Sleepy Hollowadventure, by the appalling sound of the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge.
-- He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children, particularly the youngest; and like the lion bold, which whilom so magnan-imously the lamb did hold, he would sit with a child on one knee, and rock a cradle with his foot for whole hours to-gether.
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：
-- It may be that you do not like his art, but at all events you can hardly refuse it the tribute of your interest.
-- I suppose Velasquez was a better painter than El Greco, but custom stales one's admiration for him: the Cretan, sensual and tragic, proffers the mystery of his soul like a standing sacrifice.
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