flank是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vi. 胁, 侧翼; 包抄…的侧翼，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：
-- As a hound grips a wild boar or lion in flank or buttock when he gives him chase, and watches warily for his wheeling, even so did Hector follow close upon the Achaeans, ever killing the hindmost as they rushed pan-ic-stricken onwards.
-- The son of Oileus came up to him and struck him in the flank so that he fell, and a fierce fight between Trojans and Danaans raged round his body.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was some time before I could summon resolution to go down through the trees and bushes upon the flank of the headland to the beach.
-- While Moreau and Montgomery and their bestial rabble chased me through the island, might I not go round the beach until I came to their enclosure, make a flank march upon them, in fact, and then with a rock lugged out of their loosely-built wall, perhaps, smash in the lock of the smaller door and see what I could find (knife, pistol, or what not) to fight them with when they returned?
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Brother, it ebbs from my flank and side.
-- There were white-tusked wild males, with fallen leaves and nuts and twigs lying in the wrinkles of their necks and the folds of their ears; fat, slow-footed she-elephants, with restless, little pinky black calves only three or four feet high running under their stomachs; young elephants with their tusks just beginning to show, and very proud of them; lanky, scraggy old-maid elephants, with their hollow anxious fac-es, and trunks like rough bark; savage old bull elephants, scarred from shoulder to flank with great weals and cuts of bygone fights, and the caked dirt of their solitary mud baths dropping from their shoulders; and there was one with a broken tusk and the marks of the full-stroke, the terrible drawing scrape, of a tiger's claws on his side.
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：
-- If to this be added the fact that, in con-sequence of the ex parte application of the spur, one side of the mare appeared to journey faster than the other; and that the aggrieved flank was resolutely indicated by unremitted flourishes of a bushy tail, we finish the picture of both horse and man.
-- A warrior rather crawled than walked on each flank so as to catch occasional glimps-es into the forest; and every few minutes the band came to a halt, and listened for hostile sounds, with an acuteness of organs that would be scarcely conceivable to a man in a less natural state.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Full of this dim and temperate bliss, he went on to fling the ewe over upon her other side, covering her head with his knee, gradually running the shears line after line round her dewlap; thence about her flank and back, and finishing over the tail.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sherman hadn't laid a finger on it for all his frontal attacks, cavalry dashesand flank movements.
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 she was exposed naked on the naked flank of the horse.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A flank movement produced an unconditional surrender, however, for Laurie knew where to have him.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would hum over his old rigadig tunes while flank and flank with the most exasperated monster.
-- I have mustered ye all round this capstan; and ye mates, flank me with your lances; and ye harpooneers, stand there with your irons; and ye, stout mariners, ring me in, that I may in some sort revive a noble custom of my fisherman fathers before me.
-- That instant, as he fell on the whale's slippery back, the boat righted, and was dashed aside by the swell, while Radney was tossed over into the sea, on the other flank of the whale.
-- In the second engraving, the boat is in the act of drawing alongside the barnacled flank of a large running Right Whale, that rolls his black weedy bulk in the sea like some mossy rock-slide from the Patagonian cliffs.
-- But to haul the boat up to his flank was impossible, he swam so fast and furious.
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