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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Baskerville shuddered as he looked up the long, dark drive to where the house glimmered like a ghost at the farther end.
-- 'We've laid the family ghost once and forever.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet NOW, when the idea struck me that this was a ghost and not Rogojin at all, I was not in the least alarmed.
-- Strangely enough, the decision of the question as to whether this were a ghost or Rogojin did not, for some reason or other, inter-est me nearly so much as it ought to have done; I think I began to muse about something altogether different.
-- This ghost had humiliated me; nor could I bear to be subordi-nate to that dark, horrible force which was embodied in the form of the loathsome insect.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The visitor remained in the parlour until four o'clock, without giving the ghost of an excuse for an intrusion.
-- And there wasn't an arm!There wasn't the ghost of an arm!"
-- 'Dashed rum!It's just like the ghost of a foot, ain't it?'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He spoke with a slobbering articu-lation, with the ghost of a lisp.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Buldeo was explaining how the tiger that had carried away Messua's son was a ghost-tiger, and his body was in-habited by the ghost of a wicked, old money-lender, who had died some years ago.
-- Most native hunt-ers always singe a tiger's whiskers to prevent his ghost from haunting them.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the Revolu-tionary War, and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind.
-- Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head, and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being be-lated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak.
-- He was, moreover, approaching the very place where many of the scenes of the ghost stories had been laid.
-- To turn and fly was now too late; and besides, what chance was there of escaping ghost or goblin, if such it was, which could ride upon the wings of the wind?
-- The schoolhouse being de-serted soon fell to decay, and was reported to be haunted by the ghost of the unfortunate pedagogue and the plough-boy, loitering homeward of a still summer evening, has often fancied his voice at a distance, chanting a melancholy psalm tune among the tranquil solitudes of Sleepy Hollow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The jolly old grandfather says to the wild young grandson, "I have brought you up and educated you, Fred; I have put you in the way of getting on in life; you have bolted a little out of course, as young fellows often do; and you shall never have another chance, nor the ghost of half a one."
-- 'When you played the ghost in the reg'lar drama in the fairs, you believed in everything except ghosts.
-- The grey-headed old man gliding like a ghost into her room and acting the thief while he supposed her fast asleep, then bearing off his prize and hanging over it with the ghastly exultation she had witnessed, was worse immeasurably worse, and far more dreadful, for the moment, to reflect upon than anything her wildest fancy could have suggested.
-- He would have known, at the first mouthful, that the air was not eatable, and must have given up the ghost in despair.
-- 'This is an occupation,' said the lawyer, laying down his pen and emptying his glass, 'which seems to bring him before my eyes like the Ghost of Hamlet's father, in the very clothes that he wore on work-a-days.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the candles on the mantel was blown out, and the little machine suddenly swung round, became indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps, as an eddy of faintly glittering brass and ivory; and it was gone vanished!Save for the lamp the table was bare.
-- Or is this a trick like that ghost you showed us last Christmas?"
-- He drained it, and it seemed to do him good: for he looked round the table, and the ghost of his old smile flickered across his face.
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