be是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (就) 是， 等于； (存) 在； 到达， 来到， 发生，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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then thought he to himself, 'It will be a very droll thing to bring away such a fine bird in this shabby cage'; so he opened the door and took hold of it and put it into the golden cage.
-- You must go straight on till you come to the castle where the horse stands in his stall: by his side will lie the groom fast asleep and snoring: take away the horse quietly, but be sure to put the old leathern saddle upon him, and not the golden one that is close by it.'
-- As he took up the golden saddle the groom awoke and cried out so loud, that all the guards ran in and took him prisoner, and in the morning he was again brought before the court to be judged, and was sentenced to die.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This volume would have been at least twice as large, if I had not made bold to strike out innumerable passages re-lating to the winds and tides, as well as to the variations and bearings in the several voyages, together with the min-ute descriptions of the management of the ship in storms, in the style of sailors; likewise the account of longitudes and latitudes; wherein I have reason to apprehend, that Mr. Gulliver may be a little dissatisfied.
-- And if any traveller hath a curiosity to see the whole work at large, as it came from the hands of the author, I will be ready to gratify him.
-- I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called 'A Voyage round the world.'
-- But I do not remember I gave you power to consent that any thing should be omitted, and much less that any thing should be inserted; therefore, as to the latter, I do here renounce ev-ery thing of that kind; particularly a paragraph about her majesty Queen Anne, of most pious and glorious memo-ry; although I did reverence and esteem her more than any of human species.
-- But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, and at about five thousand leagues distance, in another reign, be applied to any of the Yahoos, who now are said to govern the herd; especially at a time when I little thought, or feared, the unhappiness of living under them?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them.
-- A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.
-- In such terms, no doubt, substituting the words 'boys and girls,' for 'sir,' Thomas Gradgrind now presented Thomas Gradgrind to the little pitchers before him, who were to be filled so full of facts.
-- He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away.
-- Hoofs hard, but requiring to be shod with iron.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But my uncle was not a man to be kept waiting; so adjourning therefore all minor questions, I presented myself before him.
-- There was a reason, and it may be regarded as a good one, why my uncle objected to display his learning more than was absolutely necessary: he stammered; and when intent upon explaining the phenomena of the heavens, was apt to find himself at fault, and allude in such a vague way to sun, moon, and stars that few were able to comprehend his meaning.
-- I took deep interest in all his doings, and hoped some day to be almost as learned myself.
-- It was a rare thing for me to be absent from his lectures.
-- Alas!my readers will see a very different portrait of him at a future time, after he has gone through the fearful adventures yet to be related.
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：
-- Then he went back to Flanders: to be shipped over to Eng-land again six months later, more or less in bits.
-- He could wheel himself about in a wheeled chair, and he had a bath-chair with a small motor attachment, so he could drive himself slow-ly round the garden and into the line melancholy park, of which he was really so proud, though he pretended to be flippant about it.
-- Between artists and cultured social-ists, Constance and her sister Hilda had had what might be called an aesthetically unconventional upbringing.
-- The girls were doubtful, but then the thing was so much talked about, it was supposed to be so important.
-- Why couldn't a girl be queenly, and give the gift of herself?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only things to be seen not fixedly staring and glaring were the vines drooping under their load of grapes.
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