church是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 教堂； 教会， 教派； (宗教的) 礼拜仪式，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "How full and sonorous it is!It is like the metal church bells are made of—composed of seventy-eight parts of copper and twenty-two of tin."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Roman Catholic believes that the Church on earth cannot stand without universal temporal Power.
-- Atheism!In our country it is only among the upper classes that you find unbelievers; men who have lost the root or spirit of their faith; but abroad whole masses of the people are beginning to profess unbelief at first because of the darkness and lies by which they were surrounded; but now out of fanaticism, out of loathing for the Church and Christianity!'
-- A Church can never entirely dis-appear; I never hinted at that!'
-- He went to the funeral, and it was observable that the public assembled in church greeted his arrival and departure with whisperings, and watched him closely.
-- From six o'clock groups of people began to gather at Nastasia's house, at the prince's, and at the church door, but more especially at the former place.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Statchell sang it at the schoolroom concert (in aid of the church lamps), and thereafter whenever one or two of the villagers were gathered together and the stranger appeared, a bar or so of this tune, more or less sharp or flat, was whistled in the midst of them.
-- With them goggling eyes and bandaged head, and never going to church of a Sunday.
-- Members of the club, who had attended church in the morning, were splendid in badges of pink and green, and some of the gayer-minded had also adorned their bowler hats with brilliant-coloured favours of ribbon.
-- He saw the man just before him and spurting briskly for the church corner and the hill road.
-- Henfrey stopped to discover this, but Hall and the two labourers from the Tap rushed at once to the corner, shouting incoherent things, and saw Mr. Marvel vanishing by the corner of the church wall.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His haunts are not confined to the valley, but extend at times to the adjacent roads, and especially to the vicinity of a church at no great distance.
-- It was a matter of no little vanity to him on Sundays, to take his station in front of the church gallery, with a band of cho-sen singers; where, in his own mind, he completely carried away the palm from the parson.
-- The sequestered situation of this church seems always to have made it a favorite haunt of troubled spirits.
-- On one side of the church extends a wide woody dell, along which raves a large brook among broken rocks and trunks of fallen trees.
-- He affirmed that on returning one night from the neighboring village of Sing Sing, he had been overtaken by this midnight trooper; that he had offered to race with him for a bowl of punch, and should have won it too, for Daredevil beat the goblin horse all hollow, but just as they came to the church bridge, the Hessian bolted, and vanished in a flash of fire.
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：
-- It is not thus that the Church in its great days dealt with evidence that was unwelcome.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length, the clock was hidden from his sight by some envious shutters, then the church steeples proclaimed eleven at night, then the quarter past, and then the conviction seemed to obtrude itself on his mind that it was no use tarrying there any longer.
-- They were alone together, once again; every object was bright and fresh; nothing reminded them, otherwise than by contrast, of the monotony and constraint they had left behind; church towers and steeples, frowning and dark at other times, now shone in the sun; each humble nook and corner rejoiced in light; and the sky, dimmed only by excessive distance, shed its placid smile on everything beneath.
-- The farm-yard passed, then came the little inn; the humbler beer-shop; and the village tradesman's; then the lawyer's and the parson's, at whose dread names the beer-shop trembled; the church then peeped out modestly from a clump of trees; then there were a few more cottages; then the cage, and pound, and not unfrequently, on a bank by the way-side, a deep old dusty well.
-- The church was old and grey, with ivy clinging to the walls, and round the porch.
-- As he yielded to this suggestion a ready and rapturous assent, they all rose and walked away together; he keeping close to the box of puppets in which he was quite absorbed, the merry little man carrying it slung over his arm by a strap attached to it for the purpose, Nelly having hold of her grandfather's hand, and Mr Codlin sauntering slowly behind, casting up at the church tower and neighbouring trees such looks as he was accustomed in town-practice to direct to drawing-room and nursery windows, when seeking for a profitable spot on which to plant the show.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the eve of Easter Sunday, the priest and deacon who, as they afterward related, with difficulty covered the three miles from the church to the aunts' manor, arrived on a sleigh to perform the morning services.
-- Nekhludoff, with his aunts and the servants, went through the motions, without ceasing to look on Katiousha, who brought a censer and was standing at the door; then, in the customary fashion, kissed the priest and the aunts, and was about to retire to his room when he heard Matriena Pavlovna, the old servant of Maria Ivanovna, making preparations with Katiousha to go to church and witness the consecration of the paschal bread.
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