double是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 两倍adj. 两倍的， 双重的vt. 使加倍vi. 加倍，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：
-- His head was large, and shaped like a double hammer at the end of a handle.
-- The engine, which was constructed on a new system, was a high-pressure one, of 160-horse power, and put in motion a double screw.
-- The mules were richly caparisoned, with the Arab bit in their mouths, and long reins of plaited leather, which served as a whip; the headstall of the bridle was decorated with metal ornaments, and the ALFORJAS, double sacks of gay colored linen, containing the day's provisions.
-- The ponchos were streaming like the overflowing gutter-spouts on the roof of a house, and the unfortunate horsemen had to submit to a double bath, for their horses dashed up the water to their waists at every step.
-- He had taken thirty days to cross Chili, the Cordilleras, the Pampas, and the Argentine plains, giving the DUNCAN ample time to double Cape Horn, and arrive on the opposite side.
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：
-- A square balustraded gallery ran round the top of the old hall, approached by a double stair.
-- 'I have brought off a double event.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At times I have imagined that all men were the same,' he continued earnestly, for he ap-peared to be much interested in the conversation, 'and that consoled me in a certain degree, for a DOUBLE motive is a thing most difficult to fight against.
-- I fear these double motives more than ever just now, but I am not your judge, and in my opinion it is going too far to give the name of baseness to it what do you think?
-- As he concluded the prince looked curiously at Keller; evidently this problem of double motives had often been considered by him before.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he spoke, he took a double cup of nectar, and placed it in his mother's hand.
-- She turned it from his skin as a mother whisks a fly from off her child when it is sleeping sweetly; she guided it to the part where the golden buckles of the belt that passed over his double cuirass were fastened, so the arrow struck the belt that went tightly round him.
-- The car itself was made with plaited bands of gold and silver, and it had a double top-rail run-ning all round it.
-- Oeneus gave a belt rich with purple, and Bellerophon a double cup, which I left at home when I set out for Troy.
-- On this they took every man his double cup, made their drink-offerings, and went back to the ships, Ulysses leading the way.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two hours later, as Petersen Sahib was eating early breakfast, his elephants, who had been double chained that night, began to trumpet, and Pudmini, mired to the shoul-ders, with Kala Nag, very footsore, shambled into the camp.
-- Petersen Sahib ate alone in his tent, but he gave orders that the camp should have two sheep and some fowls, as well as a double ration of flour and rice and salt, for he knew that there would be a feast.
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：
-- By uniting the several detachments of his command, this officer might have arrayed nearly double that number of combatants against the enterprising Frenchman, who had ventured so far from his reinforcements, with an army but little superior in numbers.
-- For several miles in this direction, the moun-tains appeared reluctant to yield their dominion, but within reach of the eye they diverged, and finally melted into the level and sandy lands, across which we have accompanied our adventurers in their double journey.
-- exclaimed the excited Heyward, forgetful that a double stake was involved in his life; 'you and your vengeance are alike despised.'
-- After this material point was so satisfactorily decided, he despatched an Indian boy in quest of 'killdeer' and the rifle of Uncas, to the place where they had deposited their weapons on approaching the camp of the Delawares; a measure of double policy, inasmuch as it protected the arms from their own fate, if detained as pris-oners, and gave them the advantage of appearing among the strangers rather as sufferers than as men provided with means of defense and subsistence.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a double house, and the big open place be- twixt them was roofed and floored, and sometimes the table was set there in the middle of the day, and it was a cool, com-fortable place.
-- A rail fence round a two-acre yard; a stile made out of logs sawed off and up-ended in steps, like barrels of a different length, to climb over the fence with, and for the women to stand on when they are going to jump on to a horse; some sickly grass-patches in the big yard, but mostly it was bare and smooth, like an old hat with the nap rubbed off; big double log-house for the white folks hewed logs, with the chinks stopped up with mud or mortar, and these mud-stripes been whitewashed some time or another; round-log kitchen, with a big broad, open but roofed passage joining it to the house; log smoke- house back of the kitchen; three little log nigger-cabins in a row t'other side the smoke-house; one little hut all by itself away down against the back fence, and some outbuildings down a piece the other side; ash- hopper and big kettle to bile soap in by the little hut; bench by the kitchen door, with bucket of water and a gourd; hound asleep there in the sun; more hounds asleep round about; about three shade trees away off in a corner; some currant bushes and gooseberry bushes in one place by the fence; outside of the fence a gar-den and a watermelon patch; then the cotton fields begins, and after the fields the woods.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suddenly, the Fox stopped in his tracks and, turning to the Marionette, said to him: "Do you want to double your gold pieces?"
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