block是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 大块木料, 街区, 事物的聚集, 障碍物 vt. 阻碍, 破坏，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here he produced a decanter of curiously light wine, and a block of curiously heavy cake, and admin-istered instalments of those dainties to the young people: at the same time, sending out a meagre servant to offer a glass of something to the postboy, who answered that he thanked the gentleman, but if it was the same tap as he had tasted be-fore, he had rather not.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Princess Tverskaya did not get out of her carriage, but her groom, in high boots, a cape, and block hat, darted out at the entrance.
-- Women are the chief stumbling block in a man's career.
-- The walls were stuccoed to look like marble, the huge plate- glass windows were already in, only the parquet floor was not yet finished, and the carpenters, who were planing a block of it, left their work, taking off the bands that fastened their hair, to greet the gentry.
-- Itentionally he recalled all those doctrines of the church which had always seemed most strange and had always been a stumbling block to him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Skittering through a garage alley they came out on the mass of Zenith General Hospital, a block long, five stories of bleak windows with infrequent dim blotches of light.
-- Though in his service to Leora and to the new god, Dean Silva, he had become austere, denying himself whisky, learning page on page of medicine with a frozen fury, he was always in a vacuum of desire for her, and always he ran the last block to his boarding-house, looking for a letter from her.
-- Wise's shack was a one-story structure, not badly built, half a block from Main Street, with nothing but the railroad track between it and open wheat country.
-- She owned, in Swede Hollow, the filthiest block of tenements in Nautilus.
-- At the Cedar Street end of the corridor, a private street, one block long, was the Bank of the Andes and Antilles (Ross McGurk, chairman of the board), in whose gold- crusted sanctity red-headed Yankee exporters drew drafts on Quito, and clerks hurled breathless Spanish at bulky women.
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：
-- A few minutes afterwards the woman went to the cowshed, and through a crack in the wall she saw in the stable adjoining he had made a noose of his sash from the beam, stood on a block of wood, and was trying to put his neck in the noose.
-- At that point there is a great block of buildings, entirely let out in dram shops and eating- houses; women were continually running in and out, bare-headed and in their indoor clothes.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Meade mounted her carriage block and craned her neck for a view of the baby,but the doctor, disregarding the mud, plowed through to the side of the carriage.
-- She was unable to walk more than a block on the tiny feet which shecrammed into too small slippers.
-- Uncle Peter, preoccupied with the conversation behind him, had driven past the Merriwether carriage block and hebacked up the horse.
-- She pushed her way swiftly through the crowds, past the packed, hysterical mob surging in the open space of FivePoints, and hurried as fast as she could down the short block toward the depot.
-- When she had shoved and pushed her way through the mob for a block beyond Five Points the crowd thinned alittle and, gathering up her skirts, she began to run again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an air of toleration or depreciation about his utterance of these words that rather depressed me; and I was still looking sideways at his block of a face in search of any encouraging note to the text, when he said here we were at Barnard's Inn.
-- But after dinner, when I made him take his pipe, and when I had loitered with him about the forge, and when we sat down together on the great block of stone outside it, we got on better.
-- Chapter XLVIEight o'clock had struck before I got into the air, that was scented, not disagreeably, by the chips and shavings of the long-shore boat-builders, and mast, oar, and block makers.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And fully partaking his stupefaction, if not his joy, I read on the eastern side of the huge block of stone, the same characters, half eaten away by the corrosive action of time, the name, to me a thousand times accursed- [Illustration: Runic Glyphs] "Arne Saknussemm!"
-- He allowed about half of it to go down the pit and catch in a hitch over a great block of lava which stood on the edge of the precipice.
-- We followed an almost horizontal direction; when, at the end of about a dozen paces, our further advance was checked by the interposition of an enormous block of granite rock.
-- Many and many years have passed away since the return of Saknussemm, and the fall of this huge block of granite.
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