ghost是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 鬼魂， 幽灵，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I soon discovered that both of them were perfect strangers to the rest of the company, and had nev-er seen or heard of them before; and I had a whisper from a ghost who shall be nameless, 'that these commentators always kept in the most distant quarters from their princi-pals, in the lower world, through a consciousness of shame and guilt, because they had so horribly misrepresented the meaning of those authors to posterity.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stood before the fire, partly because it was a cool spring afternoon, though the sun shone; partly because the shade of Stone Lodge was always haunted by the ghost of damp mortar; partly because he thus took up a commanding position, from which to subdue Mrs. Gradgrind.
-- It was altogether unaccountable that a young gentleman whose imagination had been strangled in his cradle, should be still inconvenienced by its ghost in the form of grovelling sensualities; but such a monster, beyond all doubt, was Tom.
-- It was a hasty note to inform Louisa that Mrs. Gradgrind lay very ill. She had never been well within her daughter's knowledge; but, she had declined within the last few days, had continued sinking all through the night, and was now as nearly dead, as her limited capacity of being in any state that implied the ghost of an intention to get out of it, allowed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle was delighted; for myself, moody and dissatisfied, I appeared almost to expect a glimpse of the ghost of Hamlet.
-- But no ghost or anything else appeared upon the ancient walls.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was dirtily and meanly dressed, in a threadbare coat, once blue, reaching to his ankles and buttoned to his chin, where it vanished in the pale ghost of a velvet collar.
-- One moment; for she recovered breath in the act of raising a minute corner of her pocket-handkerchief to her eye, as a tribute to the ghost of the departed Mr F., and began again.
-- He stood looking after them, when they hurried into the prison, as though he perceived that they had come back accompanied by a ghost a-piece.
-- If he had made a proclamation in an unknown tongue, and given up the ghost immediately afterwards, he could not have astounded his audience more.
-- The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dropped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She put it away, but it haunted her, not delightfully as a new dress should, but dreadfully like the ghost of a folly that was not easily laid.
-- Meg returned to her place, and supper was progressing pleasantly, when the little ghost walked again and exposed the maternal delinquencies by boldly demanding, 'More su-dar, Marmar.'
-- Jo must have fallen asleep (as I dare say my reader has during this little homily), for suddenly Laurie's ghost seemed to stand before her, a substantial, lifelike ghost, leaning over her with the very look he used to wear when he felt a good deal and didn't like to show it.
-- She opened with hospitable haste, and started as if an-other ghost had come to surprise her, for there stood a tall bearded gentleman, beaming on her from the darkness like a midnight sun.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though bodily unharmed, it uttered cries, as some king's ghost in supernatural distress.
-- From its snowy aspect, the gauntleted ghost of the Southern Seas has been denominated the White Squall.
-- Not the raw recruit, marching from the bosom of his wife into the fever heat of his first battle; not the dead man's ghost encountering the first unknown phantom in the other world; neither of these can feel stranger and stronger emotions than that man does, who for the first time finds himself pulling into the charmed, churned circle of the hunted sperm whale.
-- I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with a clean conscience sitting inside the bars of a snug family vault.
-- Desecrated as the body is, a vengeful ghost survives and hovers over it to scare.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Burn my body, make haste!It's enough to turn a man ill, to see his lean old carcase shivering in that way, like a ugly ghost just rose from the grave.'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Here," said Drouet, "if you two are going to scheme together, I won't stand a ghost of a show.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am the ghost of the Talking Cricket," answered the little being in a faint voice that sounded as if it came from a far-away world.
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