carpenter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 木工, 木匠，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：
-- After all arrangements were made, and the carpenter set to work, John Mangles escorted the Irishman and his family back to the vessel, for Paddy wished to return the visit of Lord Glenarvan.
-- "Yes," continued Paganel, getting up on his long legs, "but what I have broken the carpenter can mend."
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it appeared that the carpenter was repairing the harrows, which ought to have been repaired before Lent.
-- "Why isn't the carpenter at the thrashing machine?"
-- "But what did you want the carpenter for?"
-- The roof was mended, a kitchen maid was found--a crony of the village elder's-- hens were bought, the cows began giving milk, the garden hedge was stopped up with stakes, the carpenter made a mangle, hooks were put in the cupboards, and they ceased to burst open spontaneously, and an ironing-board covered with army cloth was placed across from the arm of a chair to the chest of drawers, and there was a smell of flatirons in the maids' room.
-- The point was that in the lodge that was being built the carpenter had spoiled the staircase, fitting it together without calculating the space it was to fill, so that the steps were all sloping when it was put in place.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The carpenter was a socialist, a Swedish Seventh Day Adventist, a ferocious arguer, and fond of drinking aquavit.
-- The carpenter created communistic states, while Sondelius, proclaiming that he did not care whether he worked under socialism or an emperor so long as he could bully people into being well, annihilated tuberculosis and by dawn had cancer fleeing.
-- He confused Dr. Yeo, head of the Department of Biology, with the carpenter who had come to put up shelves.
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：
-- "My father wished me to become a carpenter like himself.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- the woman also liked the idea, and their gossip the carpenter cut and planed the calf, and painted it as it ought to be, and made it with its head hanging down as if it were eating.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The voice replied, 'I was safe, for my box was fas-tened to their ship; and the carpenter should immediately come and saw a hole in the cover, large enough to pull me out.'
-- The carpenter came, and in a few minutes sawed a passage about four feet square, then let down a small ladder, upon which I mounted, and thence was taken into the ship in a very weak condition.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mark they thus leave on the whale, may best be likened to the hollow made by a carpenter in countersinking for a screw.
-- This was an easy thing, for the carpenter had been thrusting his shavings into the furnace throughout the passage.
-- But I had no hand in shipping that ivory arm there; that thing is against all rule" pointing at it with the marlingspike "that is the captain's work, not mine; he ordered the carpenter to make it; he had that club-hammer there put to the end, to knock some one's brains out with, I suppose, as he tried mine once.
-- This done, the carpenter received orders to have the leg completed that night; and to provide all the fittings for it, independent of those pertaining to the distrusted one in use.
-- But most humble though he was, and far from furnishing an example of the high, humane abstraction; the Pequod's carpenter was no duplicate; hence, he now comes in person on this stage.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But our patron, warned by this disaster, resolved to take more care of himself for the future; and having lying by him the longboat of our English ship that he had taken, he resolved he would not go a- fishing any more without a compass and some provision; so he ordered the carpenter of his ship, who also was an English slave, to build a little state-room, or cabin, in the middle of the long- boat, like that of a barge, with a place to stand behind it to steer, and haul home the main-sheet; the room before for a hand or two to stand and work the sails.
-- As soon as they came within call of the ship, he made Robinson hail them, and tell them they had brought off the men and the boat, but that it was a long time before they had found them, and the like, hold-ing them in a chat till they came to the ship's side; when the captain and the mate entering first with their arms, imme-diately knocked down the second mate and carpenter with the butt-end of their muskets, being very faithfully second-ed by their men; they secured all the rest that were upon the main and quarter decks, and began to fasten the hatches, to keep them down that were below; when the other boat and their men, entering at the forechains, secured the fore-castle of the ship, and the scuttle which went down into the cook-room, making three men they found there prisoners.
-- a carpenter and a smith.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We found it; a little bit of a concern, up over a carpenter shop carpenters and printers all gone to the meeting, and no doors locked.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My boy, we need a carpenter here and I have never been one."
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