turn是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. (使) 转动； (使) 旋转； (使) 转变n. 机会，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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air, which prevailed in the earlier times of Connecticut; and would frighten them woefully with speculations upon com-ets and shooting stars; and with the alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy!
-- Then, he thought, how soon he 'd turn his back upon the old schoolhouse; snap his fingers in the face of Hans Van Ripper, and every other niggardly patron, and kick any itinerant pedagogue out of doors that should dare to call him comrade!
-- Besides, there is no encouragement for ghosts in most of our villages, for they have scarcely had time to finish their first nap and turn themselves in their graves, before their surviving friends have travelled away from the neighborhood; so that when they turn out at night to walk their rounds, they have no ac-quaintance left to call upon.
-- To turn and fly was now too late; and besides, what chance was there of escaping ghost or goblin, if such it was, which could ride upon the wings of the wind?
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：
-- Perhaps Charles Strickland's power and originality would scarcely have sufficed to turn the scale if the remarkable mythopoeic faculty of mankind had not brushed aside with impatience a story which disappointed all its craving for the extraordinary.
-- If you will be so good as to turn your head slightly to the left, you will see the door.
-- Now it was my turn to smile.
-- He seemed really to be possessed of a devil, and I felt that it might suddenly turn and rend him.
-- Couldn't you like to do someone a good turn when you have the chance?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And his turn for natural history was, more than once in the course of time, of great use, and he was not mistaken in this instance.
-- The turn of the rocks sheltered them from the wind, and they could breathe after this walk or rather run of a quarter of an hour.
-- Pencroft knelt in his turn beside the engineer, he also heard a throbbing, and even felt a slight breath on his cheek.
-- Pencroft was delighted at the turn things had taken, and their imaginations soon gave to the river which furnished the settlers with drinking water and near which the balloon had thrown them, the name of the Mercy, in true gratitude to Providence.
-- In some places, the wind, eddying round the corners, formed the snow into tall whirling columns, resembling those waterspouts which turn round on their base, and which vessels attack with a shot from a gun.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is in my heart that when Akela miss-es his next kill and at each hunt it costs him more to pin the buck the Pack will turn against him and against thee.
-- 'And turn all the people of the villages against us?'
-- 'Shall I turn them into the jungle?'
-- Swiftly turn them!Rama is mad with rage.
-- Mowgli heard an an-swering bellow from the foot of the ravine, saw Shere Khan turn (the tiger knew if the worst came to the worst it was better to meet the bulls than the cows with their calves), and then Rama tripped, stumbled, and went on again over something soft, and, with the bulls at his heels, crashed full into the other herd, while the weaker buffaloes were lifted clean off their feet by the shock of the meeting.
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：
-- For myself, I conclude the Bumppos could shoot, for I have a natural turn with a rifle, which must have been handed down from generation to generation, as, our holy commandments tell us, all good and evil gifts are bestowed; though I should be loath to answer for other people in such a matter.
-- The Indians riveted their eyes on the rocks, and listened with an attention that seemed to turn them into stone.
-- I dare say I may have served Uncas some such turn myself before now; and I very well remem-ber that he has stood between me and death five different times; three times from the Mingoes, once in crossing Hor-ican, and ' 'That bullet was better aimed than common!'
-- Does not Renard mean to turn like a fox on his footsteps, and to carry to the rich and gray-head-ed Scotchman his daughters?
-- Uncas permitted his eyes to turn for an instant on the sturdy countenance of the speaker, but he neither spoke nor gave any indication of repentance.
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