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：
-- The scouts departed; strong guards preceded and followed the lumbering vehicles that bore the baggage; and before the gray light of the morning was mellowed by the rays of the sun, the main body of the combatants wheeled into column, and left the encampment with a show of high military bearing, that served to drown the slumber-ing apprehensions of many a novice, who was now about to make his first essay in arms.
-- 'It is refreshing both to the spirits and to the body to indulge in psalmody, in befitting seasons,' returned the master of song, unhesitatingly complying with her intima-tion to follow; 'and nothing would relieve the mind more than such a consoling communion.
-- 'There is but one deer, and he is dead,' said the Indian, bending his body till his ear nearly touched the earth.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
-- Ichabod's flimsy garments fluttered in the air, as he stretched his long lank body away over his horse's head, in the eagerness of his flight.
-- The brook was searched, but the body of the schoolmas-ter was not to be discovered.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But here was a man who sincerely did not mind what people thought of him, and so convention had no hold on him; he was like a wrestler whose body is oiled; you could not get a grip on him; it gave him a freedom which was an outrage.
-- His body was cadaverous.
-- It was singular to notice that even in the weak state of his body he had no thought for its comfort.
-- Love is absorbing; it takes the lover out of himself; the most clear-sighted, though he may know, cannot realise that his love will cease; it gives body to what he knows is illusion, and, knowing it is nothing else, he loves it better than reality.
-- Dirk Stroeve had the passion of Romeo in the body of Sir Toby Belch.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was like a body without a soul.
-- Oh!if only one of them had not been missing at this meal!If the five prisoners who escaped from Richmond had been all there, under the piled-up rocks, before this clear, crackling fire on the dry sand, what thanksgiving must they have rendered to Heaven!But the most ingenious, the most learned, he who was their unquestioned chief, Cyrus Harding, was, alas!missing, and his body had not even obtained a burial-place.
-- As long as the waves had not cast up the body of the engineer, as long as he, Neb, had not seen with his eyes, touched with his hands the corpse of his master, he would not believe in his death!And this idea rooted itself deeper than ever in his determined heart.
-- "What astonishes me," rejoined the reporter, "while admitting that our companion has perished, is that Top has also met his death, and that neither the body of the dog nor of his master has been cast on the shore!"
-- Neb was there, kneeling beside a body extended on a bed of grass.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 3The child was closely followed by an elderly man of remarkably hard features and forbidding aspect, and so low in stature as to be quite a dwarf, though his head and face were large enough for the body of a giant.
-- The gush of tobacco came from the shop downstairs, and the soapy arm proceeded from the body of a servant-girl, who being then and there engaged in cleaning the stairs had just drawn it out of a warm pail to take in a letter, which letter she now held in her hand, proclaiming aloud with that quick perception of surnames peculiar to her class that it was for Mister Snivelling.
-- An indistinct idea he had, that the child was desolate and in want of help; for he often drew her to his bosom and bade her be of good cheer, saying that they would not desert each other; but he seemed unable to contemplate their real position more distinctly, and was still the listless, passionless creature that suffering of mind and body had left him.
-- Perhaps his imperturbable character was never more strikingly developed, for he preserved his usual equable smile notwithstanding that his body was dangling in a most uncomfortable position, all loose and limp and shapeless, while his long peaked cap, unequally balanced against his exceedingly slight legs, threatened every instant to bring him toppling down.
-- Casting his eyes down towards that quarter in which, with reference to a man's face, his legs are usually to be found, he observed that the face had a body attached; and when he looked more intently he was satisfied that the person was Mr Quilp, who indeed had been in his company all the time, but whom he had some vague idea of having left a mile or two behind.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then came the sauntering through the rooms in dressing-gown, looking through the windows; the languid quarrels; then the perfuming of her body and hair, the trying o n of dresses, and the quarrels with the mistress which they occasioned; contemplating herself in the mirror, rouging her face, darkening her eyebrows.
-- There he washed his partly gold-filled teeth with a tooth-powder, rinsed them with a perfumed mouth-wash, then began to sponge himself and dry his body with Turkish towels.
-- Here he received a cold-water douche, and after rubbing his white and muscular body with coarse towels and donning his white linen, he seated himself before the mirror and began to brush his short, curly beard and the thinning curls of his forehead.
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