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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lamb, revived by the warmth, began to bleat, and the sound entered Gabriel's ears and brain with an instant meaning, as expected sounds will.
-- Somebody's some woman's hand had travelled softly over the paper bearing his name; her unrevealed eyes had watched every curve as she formed it; her brain had seen him in imagination the while.
-- An Elizabeth in brain and a Mary Stuart in spirit, she often performed actions of the greatest temerity with a manner of extreme discretion.
-- The brain gets muddled, the head grows heavy, and the body's centre of gravity seems to settle by degrees in a leaden lump somewhere between the eyebrows and the crown.
-- But I have my depths; ha, and even my great depths!I might gird at a certain shepherd, brain to brain.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every compartment in his brain which he had thought to find so full of wit was bolted fast; he grew positively stupid.
-- The mighty name had all the power of a fairy's wand; those closed compartments in the southern brain flew open again; Rastignac's carefully drilled faculties returned.
-- The innumerable thoughts that surged through his brain might be summed up in these phrases.
-- The southern brain was beginning to scheme for the first time.
-- de Restaud's heart; unwittingly--therein lies my offence," said the student of law, whose keen brain had served him sufficiently well, for he had detected the biting epigrams that lurked beneath this friendly talk.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was sixty years old and his crisp curly hair was silver-white, but his shrewd face was unlined and his hardlittle blue eyes were young with the unworried youthfulness of one who has never taxed his brain with problems moreabstract than how many cards to draw in a poker game.
-- Quick though her brain was, it was not made for analysis, but she half-consciously realized that, for all theTarleton girls were as unruly as colts and wild as March hares, there was an unworried single-mindedness about themthat was part of their inheritance.
-- My little ole brain would bust if I even tried to think about them!"
-- Prissy had never been more than a mile away from Twelve Oaks or Tara before, and the trip onthe train plus her elevation to nurse was almost more than the brain in her little black skull could bear.
-- All the fiends of hell seemed screaming in her ears and her brain swirled with confusion and panic sooverpowering she clung to the window sill for support.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy perhaps.
-- He might think my brain was softening, or something of the kind."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whereupon he began again to think that my brain was disturbed, of which he gave me a hint, and advised me to go to bed in a cabin he had provided.
-- The method is this: You take a hundred leaders of each party; you dispose them into couples of such whose heads are nearest of a size; then let two nice operators saw off the occiput of each couple at the same time, in such a manner that the brain may be equally divided.
-- I feared my brain was disturbed by my sufferings and misfortunes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The poor man being about to leave the town, it came into his evil brain to cast suspicion on him?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was, in fact, fighting against an insurmountable difficulty; my brain was almost on fire; my eyes were strained with staring at the parchment; the whole absurd collection of letters appeared to dance before my vision in a number of black little groups.
-- A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT During a long, long, weary hour, there crossed my wildly delirious brain all sorts of reasons as to what could have aroused our quiet and faithful guide.
-- I could not all at once bring my brain to think.
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