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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The OMBU was borne onward so rapidly by the impetuous torrent, that anyone might have supposed some powerful locomotive engine was hidden in its trunk.
-- He went down into the hold, inspected the screw department and the engine-room, examining the engine thoroughly, and inquired about its power and consumption.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nature appears to one, looking at this picture, as some huge, implacable, dumb monster; or still better a stranger simile some enormous mechanical engine of modern days which has seized and crushed and swallowed up a great and invaluable Being, a Being worth nature and all her laws, worth the whole earth, which was perhaps created merely for the sake of the advent of that Being.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a little doubtful and tried to peer past me into the room; strange enough to her no doubt bare walls, uncurtained windows, truckle- bed, with the gas engine vibrating, and the seethe of the radiant points, and that faint ghastly stinging of chloroform in the air.
-- Then the vibration of the little gas engine could be felt all over the house, he said.
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：
-- Small as it was, this uncommon engine had excited the curiosity of most of the Europeans in the camp, though several of the provincials were seen to handle it, not only without fear, but with the utmost familiarity.
-- As he mused he became keenly sensible of the deep responsibility they as-sume who disregard the means to attain the end, and of all the danger of setting in motion an engine which it exceeds human power to control.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A score of dirty hands were raised directly to knock for him, and seldom has a knocker of equal powers been made to produce more deafening sounds than this particular engine on the occasion in question.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Conseil, Ned Land, and I took our places before the window in the saloon, and Captain Nemo joined the pilot in his cage to work his apparatus as an engine of destruction.
-- When I re-entered, after working two hours, to take some food and rest, I found a perceptible difference between the pure fluid with which the Rouquayrol engine supplied me and the atmosphere of the Nautilus, already charged with carbonic acid.
-- I could not, however, believe that she could see the Nautilus from that distance; and still less that she could know what this submarine engine was.
-- Yes, it must have been so; and on every sea they were now seeking this engine of destruction.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sharp blasts of the chuffing engine broke with more and more force on her.
-- "She must learn to stand what use is she to me in this country, if she shies and goes off every time an engine whistles."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carrie could feel that she was being borne a long distance off-- that the engine was making an almost through run to some distant city.
-- The engine backed a few feet and all was still.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Just to give you an idea of his size, let me tell you that he is larger than a five story building and that he has a mouth so big and so deep, that a whole train and engine could easily get into it."
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