curb是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vt. 勒马的皮带; 控制, 约束，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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the bottom of the smooth plaster wall there was a brick pulled out to make a sluice for the bath water, and as Rikki-tikki stole in by the masonry curb where the bath is put, he heard Nag and Nagaina whispering together outside in the moon-light.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The liberal party said, or rather allowed it to be understood, that religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the people; and Stepan Arkadyevitch could not get through even a short service without his legs aching from standing up, and could never make out what was the object of all the terrible and high-flown language about another world when life might be so very amusing in this world.
-- Levin remembered that when Nikolay had been in the devout stage, the period of fasts and monks and church services, when he was seeking in religion a support and a curb for his passionate temperament, everyone, far from encouraging him, had jeered at him, and he, too, with the others.
-- Nevyedovsky affected to be not merely indifferent but scornful of this appellation, but it was obvious that he was highly delighted, and had to keep a curb on himself not to betray the triumph which was unsuitable to their new liberal tone.
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：
-- Miss Waterford certainly felt that she could not do her subject justice on the curb of Jermyn Street, and so, like an artist, flung the bare fact at me and declared that she knew no details.
-- Captain Nichols noticed Strickland for his size and his singular appearance among the crowd that waited for the doors to open; they waited listlessly, some walking to and fro, some leaning against the wall, and others seated on the curb with their feet in the gutter; and when they filed into the office he heard the monk who read his papers address him in English.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I freely forgive you, and I hope you'll curb yourpassions in future.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Since laws were made for every degree, to curb vice in others as well as in me and so forth you know doesn't it strike you in that light?'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I think we should go," said Scarlett, trying to curb her eagerness and to keep her face earnest and simple.
-- She fought her way through the crowd to the curb and called:"Mose!Stop!"
-- And he doesn't like war any more than Ashley did!She retreated back a few paces toward the curb and scannedeach face that passed.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This project could not be of any great expense to the pub-lic; and might in my poor opinion, be of much use for the despatch of business, in those countries where senates have any share in the legislative power; beget unanimity, shorten debates, open a few mouths which are now closed, and close many more which are now open; curb the petulancy of the young, and correct the positiveness of the old; rouse the stu-pid, and damp the pert.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For what says the Captain, if I quote him correctly and if not,' with a light-comedy touch of his double eye-glass on his companion's shoulder, 'my learned friend will set me right:"Since laws were made for every degree,To curb vice in others as well as in me,I wonder we ha'n't better companyUpon Tyburn Tree!"'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although the oldest, Jo had the least self-control, and had hard times trying to curb the fiery spirit which was continually getting her into trouble.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know that this queer adventure of the Gay-Header's will be sure to seem incredible to some landsmen, though they themselves may have either seen or heard of some one's falling into a cistern ashore; an accident which not seldom happens, and with much less reason too than the Indian's, considering the exceeding slipperiness of the curb of the Sperm Whale's well.
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