body是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 身体， 本体； 主体； 尸体； 物体； (一) 群， 批， 堆，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But HERE I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all but the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now this very IN-STANT your soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man and that this is certain, CERTAIN!
-- Both mind and body need a change badly.
-- He remembered that during his epileptic fits, or rather immediately preceding them, he had always experienced a moment or two when his whole heart, and mind, and body seemed to wake up to vigour and light; when he became filled with joy and hope, and all his anxieties seemed to be swept away for ever; these moments were but presentiments, as it were, of the one fi-nal second (it was never more than a second) in which the fit came upon him.
-- The prince's body slipped convulsively down the steps till it rested at the bottom.
-- It had eight hard needle-like whiskers coming out from different parts of its body; it went along like a snake, bending its body about in spite of the shell it wore, and its motion was very quick and very horrible to look at.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now after twelve days the immortal gods came back in a body to Olympus, and Jove led the way.
-- He came once to Mycenae, not as an enemy but as a guest, in compa-ny with Polynices to recruit his forces, for they were levying war against the strong city of Thebes, and prayed our people for a body of picked men to help them.
-- As he spoke he sprang from his chariot, and his armour rang so fiercely about his body that even a brave man might well have been scared to hear it.
-- But his purpose was not for long; Agenor saw him haling the body away, and smote him in the side with his bronze-shod spear for as he stooped his side was left unprotected by his shield and thus he perished.
-- Thereon Antiphus of the gleaming corslet, son of Priam, hurled a spear at Ajax from amid the crowd and missed him, but he hit Leucus, the brave comrade of Ulysses, in the groin, as he was drag-ging the body of Simoeisius over to the other side; so he fell upon the body and loosed his hold upon it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Either a body absorbs light, or it reflects or refracts it, or does all these things.
-- I set my teeth, though my skin was presently afire, all my body afire; but I lay there like grim death.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be that he deserved to be; but I still think that the tepid support of his fellow-investigators and his desertion by the great body of scientific workers was a shameful thing.
-- I was startled by a great patch of vivid scarlet on the ground, and going up to it found it to be a peculiar fungus, branched and corrugated like a foliaceous lichen, but deli-quescing into slime at the touch; and then in the shadow of some luxuriant ferns I came upon an unpleasant thing, the dead body of a rabbit covered with shining flies, but still warm and with the head torn off.
-- It looked as though it had been suddenly snatched up and killed; and as I stared at the little furry body came the difficulty of how the thing had been done.
-- The head and upper part of the body were hidden by a tangle of creeper.
-- Then looking hard, I dis-tinguished through the interlacing network the head and body of the brute I had seen drinking.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They found him stretched out on a warm ledge in the afternoon sun, admiring his beautiful new coat, for he had been in retirement for the last ten days changing his skin, and now he was very splendid darting his big blunt-nosed head along the ground, and twisting the thirty feet of his body into fantastic knots and curves, and licking his lips as he thought of his dinner to come.
-- He had no intention of losing any advantage of the ground, and coiled and uncoiled himself once or twice, to be sure that every foot of his long body was in working order.
-- Kaa looked carefully till he found a discolored crack in the marble tracery showing a weak spot, made two or three light taps with his head to get the distance, and then lifting up six feet of his body clear of the ground, sent home half a dozen full-power smashing blows, nose-first.
-- 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.
-- Rikki-tikki tingled all over with rage and hatred at this, and then Nag's head came through the sluice, and his five feet of cold body followed it.
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：
-- At the latter, however, lay General Webb, who commanded the armies of the king in the northern provinces, with a body of more than five thousand men.
-- After the first surprise of the intelligence had a little abated, a rumor was spread through the entrenched camp, which stretched along the margin of the Hudson, forming a chain of outworks to the body of the fort itself, that a chosen detachment of fifteen hundred men was to depart, with the dawn, for William Henry, the post at the northern extrem-ity of the portage.
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