engine是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 发动机， 引擎； 火车头，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Stryver shouldered his way through the law, like some great engine forcing itself through turbid water, and dragged his useful friend in his wake, like a boat towed astern.
-- He gently places her with her back to the crashing engine that constantly whirrs up and falls, and she looks into his face and thanks him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The engine had already whistled in the distance.
-- A few instants later the platform was quivering, and with puffs of steam hanging low in the air from the frost, the engine rolled up, with the lever of the middle wheel rhythmically moving up and down, and the stooping figure of the engine- driver covered with frost.
-- At that moment the wind, as it were, surmounting all obstacles, sent the snow flying from the carriage roofs, and clanked some sheet of iron it had torn off, while the hoarse whistle of the engine roared in front, plaintively and gloomily.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nearly twenty thousand pounds had been expended, and Fogg left the hull and engine to the captain, that is, near the whole value of the craft!It was true, however, that fifty-five thousand pounds had been stolen from the Bank.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next to the chugging of the gas engine at the creamery, the most familiar sound in Wheatsylvania was Frazier's closing the door of his Ford.
-- When the train stopped between stations and from the engine came a questioning, fretful whistle, he was aghast with certainty that something had gone wrong--a bridge was out, a train was ahead of them; perhaps another was coming just behind them, about to smash into them at sixty miles an hour-- He imagined being wrecked, and he suffered more than from the actual occurrence, for he pictured not one wreck but half a dozen, with assorted miseries.
-- Why, Sandy!Just look at the elegant engine it's got!.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That I had a fever and was avoided, that I suffered greatly, that I often lost my reason, that the time seemed interminable, that I confounded impossible existences with my own identity; that I was a brick in the house-wall, and yet entreating to be released from the giddy place where the builders had set me; that I was a steel beam of a vast engine, clashing and whirling over a gulf, and yet that I implored in my own person to have the engine stopped, and my part in it hammered off; that I passed through these phases of disease, I know of my own remembrance, and did in some sort know at the time.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Five hundred carpenters and engineers were im-mediately set at work to prepare the greatest engine they had.
-- In the left pocket, another engine of the same kind.
-- Out of the right fob hung a great silver chain, with a wonderful kind of engine at the bottom.
-- He put this engine into our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of a water- mill: and we conjecture it is either some unknown animal, or the god that he worships; but we are more inclined to the latter opinion, because he assured us, (if we understood him right, for he expressed himself very imperfectly) that he seldom did any thing without consult-ing it.
-- 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.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse, at any single moment in the soul of one of these its quiet servants, with the composed faces and the regulated actions.
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：
-- The Ger-mans invented a new locomotive engine with a self feeder, that did not need a fireman.
-- 'Only an engine and gas!'
-- The man lay flat on his stomach on the floor, his neck pressed back, wriggling under the engine and poking with his finger.
-- He stopped the engine and sat rigid with anger.
-- She was going, the engine doing about half the work, the man the rest.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she was not the less surprised and curious for asking no more questions; neither was Mr Pancks, whose expressive breathing had been labouring hard since the entrance of the little man, like a locomotive engine with a great load getting up a steep incline.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The engine gave short calls with its whistle, and frequently the bell rang.
-- The engine also began its whistle-calls of four parts, with which it signalled danger to important crossings.
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