owl是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 猫头鹰，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：
-- It is a cowardly beast, that loves the darkness and dreads the light—an owl on four feet."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Up the broad flight of shallow steps, Monsieur the Marquis, flambeau preceded, went from his carriage, suffi-ciently disturbing the darkness to elicit loud remonstrance from an owl in the roof of the great pile of stable building away among the trees.
-- The stone faces on the outer walls stared blindly at the black night for three heavy hours; for three heavy hours, the horses in the stables rattled at their racks, the dogs barked, and the owl made a noise with very little resemblance in it to the noise conventionally assigned to the owl by men-po-ets.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An owl hooted not far off, and Laska, starting, stepped cautiously a few steps forward, and putting her head on one side, began to listen intently.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They came to a thoroughfare as an owl trolley glowed and rattled round the corner; they ran beside it, swung up on the steps, and were safe.
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：
-- 'She didn't understand, she didn't understand again!Look how she sits with her mouth open!An owl, a real owl!An owl in new rib-bons, ha-ha-ha!'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A owl in a tree happened to be crying 'Whoo-whoo-whoo!'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bright little figures ceased to move about below, a noiseless owl flitted by, and I shivered with the chill of the night.
-- Then, those large eyes, with that capacity for reflecting light, are common features of nocturnal things witness the owl and the cat.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An owl with fiery eyes flew three times round them, and three times screamed: 'Tu whu!Tu whu!Tu whu!'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He lit up the difficult places with a flash-light torch, and they went on again, while an owl softly hooted over the oaks, and Flossie padded silently around.
-- An owl still hooted.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A little owl could stare.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The downtown section was now bare, save for a few whistling strollers, a few owl cars, a few open resorts whose windows were still bright.
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