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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This accounts for the fact that the brain figures in their feasts as the choicest delicacy, and is offered to the most honored guest.
-- The worthy geographer was turning over in his brain for the thousandth time the words of the document.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In that case it all depends upon what is going on in her brain at this moment.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My brain throbbed with agony as I tried to discover the solution of this terrible problem.
-- While he was speaking, my brain was at work reflecting.
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：
-- 'Real knowledge comes out of the whole corpus of the consciousness; out of your belly and your penis as much as out of your brain and mind.
-- Her tormented modern-woman's brain still had no rest.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had given so few signs of reason, that a by-word went among his companions that his brain had been frozen up in a mighty frost which prevailed at St John's, New Brunswick, at the period of his birth there, and had never thawed from that hour.
-- Bar said, there was a certain point of mental strain beyond which no man could go; that the point varied with various textures of brain and peculiarities of constitution, as he had had occasion to notice in several of his learned brothers; but the point of endurance passed by a line's breadth, depression and dyspepsia ensued.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But great plans fermented in her busy brain and ambitious mind, and the old tin kitchen in the garret held a slowly increasing pile of blotted manuscript, which was one day to place the name of March upon the roll of fame.
-- She did her best, she asked advice of Mrs. Cornelius, she racked her brain to remember what Hannah did that she left undone, she reboiled, resugared, and restrained, but that dreadful stuff wouldn't 'jell'.
-- This suited the young lady better than twilight confidences, tender pressures of the hand, and eloquent glances of the eye, for with Jo, brain developed earlier than heart, and she preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the stillness and seclusion of many long night-watches in the remotest waters, and beneath constellations never seen here at the north, been led to think untraditionally and independently; receiving all nature's sweet or savage impressions fresh from her own virgin voluntary and confiding breast, and thereby chiefly, but with some help from accidental advantages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language that man makes one in a whole nation's census a mighty pageant creature, formed for noble tragedies.
-- 'Tis split, too that I feel; the jagged edge galls me so, my brain seems to beat against the solid metal; aye, steel skull, mine; the sort that needs no helmet in the most brain-battering fight!
-- That protection could only consist in his own predominating brain and heart and hand, backed by a heedful, closely calculating attention to every minute atmospheric influence which it was possible for his crew to be subjected to.
-- True, both his eyes, in themselves, must simultaneously act; but is his brain so much more comprehensive, combining, and subtle than man's, that he can at the same moment of time attentively examine two distinct prospects, one on one side of him, and the other in an exactly opposite direction?
-- If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a Sphinx, to the phrenologist his brain seems that geometrical circle which it is impossible to square.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the advice of Mr. Giles, they all talked very loud, to warn any evil-disposed person outside, that they were strong in numbers; and by a master-stoke of policy, originating in the brain of the same ingenious gentleman, the dogs' tails were well pinched, in the hall, to make them bark savagely.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their parties abroad were less varied than before, and at home she had a mother and sister whose constant repinings at the dullness of everything around them threw a real gloom over their domestic circle; and, though Kitty might in time regain her natural degree of sense, since the disturbers of her brain were removed, her other sister, from whose disposition greater evil might be apprehended, was likely to be hardened in all her folly and assurance by a situ-ation of such double danger as a watering-place and a camp.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She rummaged her brain for a reason.
-- Her little brain had been surging with contradictory feelings-- shame at exposure, shame at Hurstwood's perfidy, anger at Drouet's deception, the mockery he had made at her.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- See Pinocchio hurrying off to school with his new A-B-C book under his arm!As he walked along, his brain was busy planning hundreds of wonderful things, building hundreds of castles in the air.
-- And as he walked with hurried steps, his heart beat with an excited tic, tac, tic, tac, just as if it were a wall clock, and his busy brain kept thinking: "What if, instead of a thousand, I should find two thousand?
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