tear是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 眼泪 vi. 撕裂, 撕碎, 破坏…安宁，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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We could not tear ourselves away from each other nor persuade ourselves to say the word 'Farewell!'
-- I knew well therefore what would be my father's feelings, but I could not tear my thoughts from my employment, loathsome in itself, but which had taken an irresistible hold of my imagination.
-- A tear seemed to dim her eye when she saw us, but she quickly recovered herself, and a look of sorrowful affection seemed to attest her utter guiltlessness.
-- We stayed several hours with Justine, and it was with great difficulty that Elizabeth could tear herself away.
-- All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment; I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself -unsympathized with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett thought: He's got courage, coming here at this time when it wouldn'ttake anything to make this mob tear him to pieces because he isn't in uniform.
-- Uncle Henry fidgeted, coughed and did not look at her, lest he catch sight of a tear that would upsethim.
-- "Since you know so much about it, take off your petticoat and tear it up and tie her to the back of the wagon."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A boy may lock his door, may be warm in bed, may tuck himself up, may draw the clothes over his head, may think himself comfortable and safe, but that young man will softly creep and creep his way to him and tear him open.
-- The contention came, after all, to this;--the secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
-- What could have put it in my head but the glistening of a tear as it dropped on her work?
-- She reserved it for me to restore the desolate house, admit the sunshine into the dark rooms, set the clocks a-going and the cold hearths a-blazing, tear down the cobwebs, destroy the vermin,--in short, do all the shining deeds of the young Knight of romance, and marry the Princess.
-- If she tears your heart to pieces,--and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper,--love her, love her, love her!"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is a lucky thing,' said he, 'that they did not tear up the tree on which I was sitting, or I should have had to sprint on to another like a squirrel; but we tailors are nimble.'
-- 'No, wife,' said the man, 'I will not do that; how can I bear to leave my children alone in the for-est? the wild animals would soon come and tear them to pieces.'
-- So he left her by herself; and though he thought it most likely that the wild beasts would tear her in pieces, he felt as if a great weight were tak-en off his heart when he had made up his mind not to kill her but to leave her to her fate, with the chance of someone finding and saving her.
-- The thorns soon began to tear his clothes till they all hung in rags about him, and he himself was all scratched and wounded, so that the blood ran down.
-- But her father began to be very sorrowful, and to weep, say-ing, 'Alas, my dearest child!I have bought this flower at a high price, for I have said I would give you to a wild lion; and when he has you, he will tear you in pieces, and eat you.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some of your servants were to have private or-ders to strew a poisonous juice on your shirts and sheets, which would soon make you tear your own flesh, and die in 80 Gulliver's Travelsthe utmost torture.
-- That we often put this powder into large hollow balls of iron, and discharged them by an engine into some city we were besieging, which would rip up the pave-ments, tear the houses to pieces, burst and throw splinters on every side, dashing out the brains of all who came near.
-- It would make them sometimes hug, and sometimes tear one another; they would howl, and grin, and chatter, and reel, and tumble, and then fall asleep in 333the mud.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She looked at her father again, but no tear fell down her cheek.
-- 'Having made which bargain, Tom,' said Harthouse, clapping him on the shoulder again, with an air which left him at liberty to infer as he did, poor fool that this condition was imposed upon him in mere careless good nature to lessen his sense of obligation, 'we will tear ourselves asunder until dinner-time.'
-- She was likewise deeply apologetic for wanting the salt; and, feeling amiably bound to bear out Mr. Bounderby to the fullest extent in the testimony he had borne to her nerves, occasionally sat back in her chair and silently wept; at which periods a tear of large dimensions, like a crystal ear-ring, might be observed (or rather, must be, for it insisted on public notice) sliding down her Roman nose.
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