skirmish是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 小冲突, 小规模战斗，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Toward dusk, when Leora felt as though a skirmish line were closing in on her, she fled into Martin's laboratory.
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：
-- While the former surveyed the ruins, both internally and externally, with the curiosity of one whose recollections were reviving at each moment, Chingachgook related to his son, in the language of the Delawares, and with the pride of a conqueror, the brief history of the skirmish which had been fought, in his youth, in that secluded spot.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a skirmish in the narrow passage, occasioned by the footman's opening the door of the dismal dining-room with confidence, finding some one there with consternation, and backing on the visitor with disorder, the visitor was shut up, pending his announcement, in a close back parlour.
-- The artist traveller calmly came and took his place at table when the rest sat down, with no apparent sense upon him of his late skirmish with the completely dressed traveller.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then there occurred the first skirmish between the new party and the old.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There had been reports of a slight skirmish within theYankee lines and Mose, frantic with grief, had risked his own life to search for Ashley's body but had found nothing.
-- There'll be just onebrief skirmish and the Yankees will skedaddle back into Tennessee.
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