brain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (大) 脑， 骨髓； (pl. ) 脑力， 智能，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his methodical brain there were distinctly formulated certain aspects of peasant life, deduced partly from that life itself, but chiefly from contrast with other modes of life.
-- But these ideas, once of such importance in his eyes, seemed to come into his brain as in a dream, and had now not the slightest interest for him.
-- During the service he would first listen to the prayers, trying to attach some meaning to them not discordant with his own views; then feeling that he could not understand and must condemn them, he tried not to listen to them, but to attend to the thoughts, observations, and memories which floated through his brain with extreme vividness during this idle time of standing in church.
-- The word talent, by which they meant an inborn, almost physical, aptitude apart from brain and heart, and in which they tried to find an expression for all the artist had gained from life, recurred particularly often in their talk, as though it were necessary for them to sum up what they had no conception of, though they wanted to talk of it.
-- One would have thought he must have understood that society was closed for him and Anna; but now some vague ideas had sprung up in his brain that this was only the case in old-fashioned days, and that now with the rapidity of modern progress (he had unconsciously become by now a partisan of every sort of progress) the views of society had changed, and that the question whether they would be received in society was not a foregone conclusion.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout might have cudgelled his brain for a century without hitting upon the real object which the detective had in view.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He's so--oh, he's like a sword--no, he's like a brain walking.
-- Mr. Tozer could consider barns and he could consider trunks but his was not a brain to grasp two such complicated matters at the same time.
-- I want to keep my brain clear for work.
-- "We're working on the localization of brain functions.
-- His swift pencil was sketching the cerebrum; the brain lived and beat under his fingers.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just a glass of beer, a piece of dry bread and in one mo-ment the brain is stronger, the mind is clearer and the will is firm!Phew, how utterly petty it all is!'
-- His heart was beating violently, and his brain was in a turmoil.
-- A strange idea was pecking at his brain like a chicken in the egg, and very, very much absorbed him.
-- But why had he happened to hear such a discussion and such ideas at the very moment when his own brain was just con-ceiving 芒聙娄 the very same ideas?
-- Raskolnikov had unwittingly worked a revolution in his brain on a certain point and had made up his mind for him conclusively.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know howsorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years'imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissingsome portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd ofthe creatures of his brain are going from him for ever.
-- It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know howsorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years' 8imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissingsome portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd ofthe creatures of his brain are going from him for ever.
-- 'Married a young lady of thatpart, with a very good little property, poor thing.- And this actionof the brain now, sir?
-- Now, sir, about that brain of yours, if you'll excuse myreturning to it.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not likely, however, that any body should have equalled her in the date of the plan, as it had entered her brain during the very first evening of Har-riet's coming to Hartfield.
-- At this moment, an ingenious and animating suspicion entering Emma's brain with regard to Jane Fairfax, this charming Mr. Dixon, and the not going to Ireland, she said, with the insidious design of farther discovery, 'You must feel it very fortunate that Miss Fairfax should be allowed to come to you at such a time.
-- She had previously de-termined how far she would proceed, on any application of the sort; and it would be safer for both, to have the judi-cious law of her own brain laid down with speed. She was decided, and thus spoke 'Harriet, I will not affect to be in doubt of your meaning.
-- What a think-ing brain you have!I say, Jane, what a perfect character you and I should make, if we could be shaken together.
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