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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said that this thought weighed so upon him and became such a terrible burden upon his brain that he could not bear it, and wished they would shoot him quickly and have done with it.'
-- 'How strange that criminals seldom swoon at such a mo-ment!On the contrary, the brain is especially active, and works incessantly probably hard, hard, hard like an en-gine at full pressure.
-- But he took it differently; he fainted, and had brain fever and convulsions.
-- His brain worked all right, though his soul was heavy within him.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The helmet did not protect him, for the point of the spear went through it, and broke the bone, so that the brain inside was scattered about, and he died fighting.
-- The plumed headpiece broke about the point of the weapon, struck at once by the spear and by the strong hand of Ajax, so that the bloody brain came ooz-ing out through the crest-socket.
-- The helmet did not stay the spear, but it went right on, crushing the bone so that the brain in-side was shed in all directions, and his lust of fighting was ended.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This idea sprang from the brain of Mr. Teddy Henfrey.
-- "Don't move, little men," whispered a voice, "or I'll brain you both!"
-- "My brain is rioting.
-- My weary brain tried to formulate the position, to plot out a plan of action.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With him it was chiefly the brain that needed moulding; much had to be added, much changed.
-- But it is in the subtle grafting and reshaping one must needs do to the brain that my trouble lies.
-- And even it seemed that I too was not a reasonable creature, but only an animal tormented with some strange disorder in its brain which sent it to wander alone, like a sheep stricken with gid.
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：
-- 'Friend,' he added, thrusting forth his lean, delicate hand toward Hawkeye, in kindness, while his eyes twin-kled and grew moist, 'I thank thee that the hairs of my head still grow where they were first rooted by Providence; for, though those of other men may be more glossy and curl-ing, I have ever found mine own well suited to the brain they shelter.
-- As for myself, I can brain a Huron as well as a better man; but when it comes to a race the knaves would prove too much for me.'
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：
-- He was heart-broken because he had no whisky, wanted to make coffee for me, racked his brain for something he could possibly do for me, and beamed and laughed, and in the exuberance of his delight sweated at every pore.
-- Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Take the key, or I'll brain you with it' indeed he gave him a smart tap with the handle as he spoke.
-- Visions of gallantry, knavery, robbery; and of the nightly absences from home for which he had accounted so strangely, having been occasioned by some unlawful pursuit; flocked into her brain and rendered her afraid to question him.
-- The noise and motion in the streets fatigued his brain at first, but he was not surprised, or curious, or pleased, or irritated.
-- 'Then upon my soul and honour, ma'am, you'll find in a certain angle of that dreary pile, called Poets' Corner, a few smaller names than Slum,' retorted that gentleman, tapping himself expressively on the forehead to imply that there was some slight quantity of brain behind it.
-- She had no fear of the dear old grandfather, in whose love for her this disease of the brain had been engendered; but the man she had seen that night, wrapt in the game of chance, lurking in her room, and counting the money by the glimmering light, seemed like another creature in his shape, a monstrous distortion of his image, a something to recoil from, and be the more afraid of, because it bore a likeness to him, and kept close about her, as he did.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "For a time my brain went stagnant.
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