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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The air that would be healthful to the earth, the water that would enrich it, the heat that would ripen it, tear it when caged up.
-- Utterly heedless of the wear and tear of her clothes and constitution, and adamant to her pathetic sneezes, Mr. Bounderby immediately crammed her into a coach, and bore her off to Stone Lodge.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle was watching--his eyes fixed intently on my countenance, a grave expression on his face, a tear in his eye.
-- I sought, amid the awful stillness, to penetrate through the distant fog, to tear down the veil which concealed the mysterious distance.
-- At last, by a violent and almost superhuman effort, I tear it away just as the ball which is still executing its gyratory motions is about to run round it and drag me with it--if-Oh, what intense stupendous light!The globe of fire bursts--we are enveloped in cascades of living fire, which flood the space around with luminous matter.
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：
-- It, too, was caught and trying to tear itself free, the wind, like Absalom.
-- Suddenly he saw a tear fall on to her wrist.
-- He knew that conscience was chiefly tear of society, or fear of oneself.
-- Sitting where he had sat before, he started to tear off the back-paper from the big frame, and to pull out the sprigs that held the backboard in position, working with the immediate quiet absorption that was characteristic of him.
-- She sort of got harder and harder to bring off, and she'd sort of tear at me down there, as if it was a beak tearing at me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried the jailer, turning upon him with southern quickness, and gesticulating with both his hands and all his fingers, as if he were threatening to tear him to pieces.
-- 'In the very hour of his return almost before the shoe upon his foot is dry he asperses his father's memory to his mother!Asks his mother to become, with him, a spy upon his father's transactions through a lifetime!Has misgivings that the goods of this world which we have painfully got together early and late, with wear and tear and toil and self-denial, are so much plunder; and asks to whom they shall be given up, as reparation and restitution!'
-- She was so tremulous and agitated, and he was so moved by compassion for her, and by deep interest in her story as it dawned upon him, that he could scarcely tear himself away.
-- The people knew it so well, that they tried to tear him to pieces.'
-- 'Why, a native Englishman is put to it every night of his life, to save his life from them Mails,' argued the first old man; 'and he knows when they're a coming round the corner, to tear him limb from limb.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo wasn't ashamed of the great tear that dropped off the end of her nose, and Amy never minded the rumpling of her curls as she hid her face on her mother's shoulder and sobbed out, 'I am a selfish girl!But I'll truly try to be better, so he mayn't be disappointed in me by-and-by.'
-- Yours is as good as new, but I forgot the burn and the tear in mine.
-- She may tear it tonight, and that will be a good excuse for offering a decent one.'
-- The evenings were the worst of all, for Aunt March fell to tell-ing long stories about her youth, which were so unutterably dull that Amy was always ready to go to be, intending to cry over her hard fate, but usually going to sleep before she had squeezed out more than a tear or two.
-- Laurie was signing and sealing as he spoke, and did not look up till a great tear dropped on the paper.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for Peleg himself, he took it more like a philosopher; but for all his philosophy, there was a tear twinkling in his eye, when the lantern came too near.
-- They fancy that the monster to which these arms belonged ordinarily clings by them to the bed of the ocean; and that the sperm whale, unlike other species, is supplied with teeth in order to attack and tear it.
-- It is very fat and tender, and apt to tear in pieces in hoisting it on deck.
-- From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop.
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