coffin是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 棺材， 柩，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had al-ready got the length of opening the hearse to take the coffin out, when some brighter genius proposed instead, its being escorted to its destination amidst general rejoicing.
-- He had a strong idea that the coffin he had seen was running -after him; and, pictured as hopping on behind him, bolt upright, upon its narrow end, always on the point of over-taking him and hopping on at his side perhaps taking his arm it was a pursuer to shun.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every corpse is a sphynx of immortality; here too on the black coffin the sphynx gave us no answer to what he who lay within had written two days before: 'O mighty Death!thy silence teaches nought, Thou leadest only to the near grave's brink; Is broken now the ladder of my thoughts?
-- Our heaviest grief the world oft seeth not, Our sorest pain we hide from stranger eyes: And for the sufferer there is nothing left But the green mound that o'er the coffin lies.'
-- He was driven out there, but no one followed; all his friends were dead, and the little boy kissed his hand to the coffin as it was driven away.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And there rose again before her imagination the cruel memory, that always tore her mother's heart, of the death of her last little baby, who had died of croup; his funeral, the callous indifference of all at the little pink coffin, and her own torn heart, and her lonely anguish at the sight of the pale little brow with its projecting temples, and the open, wondering little mouth seen in the coffin at the moment when it was being covered with the little pink lid with a cross braided on it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The coffin will be plain, of course 芒聙娄 and everything will be plain, so it won't cost much.
-- The coffin was covered with white silk and edged with a thick white frill; wreaths of flowers surrounded it on all sides.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can't say how I knew it was my dear, dearmother's coffin that they went to look at.
-- We alighted; and followed the plain coffin to a corner Iremember well, where the service was read consigning it to thedust.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The door then opened, and a plain elm coffin was slowly thrust forth, and laid by two men in fustian along the middle of the vehicle.
-- Not a footstep or wheel was audible anywhere around, and the dead silence was broken only by a heavy particle falling from a tree through the evergreens and alighting with a smart rap upon the coffin of poor Fanny.
-- Fetching three other men to assist him, they bore the unconscious truant indoors, placing the coffin on two benches in the middle of a little sitting-room next the hall, as Bathsheba directed.
-- At the end of a short though undefined time she found herself in the small room, quivering with emotion, a mist before her eyes, and an excruciating pulsation in her brain, standing beside the uncovered coffin of the girl whose conjectured end had so entirely engrossed her, and saying to herself in a husky voice as she gazed within "It was best to know the worst, and I know it now!"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This last blow overcame her, and she knelt by Beaufort's coffin weeping bitterly, when my father entered the chamber.
-- It was an historical subject, painted at my father's desire, and represented Caroline Beaufort in an agony of despair, kneeling by the coffin of her dead father.
-- 'Alas!Yes, my father,' replied I; 'some destiny of the most horrible kind hangs over me, and I must live to fulfil it, or surely I should have died on the coffin of Henry.'
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And they made a coffin of glass, so that they might still look at her, and wrote upon it in golden letters what her name was, and that she was a king's daughter.
-- They placed the coffin on the ground, but he went to it and took the lid off, and a dead man lay there-in.
-- You shall at once go into your coffin again,' and he took him up, threw him into it, and shut the lid.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the old cellaret with nothing in it, lined with lead, like a sort of coffin in compartments; there was the old dark closet, also with nothing in it, of which he had been many a time the sole contents, in days of punishment, when he had regarded it as the veritable entrance to that bourne to which the tract had found him galloping.
-- So now Mr Gowan, like that worn-out old coffin which never was Mahomet's nor anybody else's, hung midway between two points: jaundiced and jealous as to the one he had left: jaundiced and jealous as to the other that he couldn't reach.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
-- But the directions he had given us about keeping a yellow warehouse on our starboard hand till we opened a white church to the larboard, and then keeping that on the larboard hand till we made a corner three points to the starboard, and that done, then ask the first man we met where the place was: these crooked directions of his very much puzzled us at first, especially as, at the outset, Queequeg insisted that the yellow warehouse our first point of departure must be left on the larboard hand, whereas I had understood Peter Coffin to say it was on the starboard.
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