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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its form was that of a cube, 12 feet on each side, and it stood on a block of basalt.
-- At the spot mentioned Paganel had noticed an enormous block of stone, round which the vapors played with a certain degree of intensity.
-- This block covered a small natural crater hollowed in the cone, and by its own weight prevented the egress of the subterranean fire.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the fading light I could see that the centre was a heavy block of building from which a porch projected.
-- >From this central block rose the twin towers, ancient, crenelated, and pierced with many loopholes.
-- It was as cold as a block of marble.
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：
-- She seized one day upon her own daughter, as that chip of the female block was returning from school; but the little one, instead of kissing the loving mother's hand, bit it firmly, and so re-ceived from the other hand a smack in the face which sent her reeling into the gutter: whence she was rescued by an indignant and harassed grandmother.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On a black bier-like sofa in this hollow, propped up behind with one great angular black bolster like the block at a state execution in the good old times, sat his mother in a widow's dress.
-- With a still surviving attachment to the one miserable yard and block of houses as her birthplace and home, she passed to and fro in it shrinkingly now, with a womanly consciousness that she was pointed out to every one.
-- For the rest, there was the bier-like sofa with the block upon it, and the figure in the widow's dress, as if attired for execution; the fire topped by the mound of damped ashes; the grate with its second little mound of ashes; the kettle and the smell of black dye; all as they had been for fifteen years.
-- A craggy track, up which the mules in single file scrambled and turned from block to block, as though they were ascending the broken staircase of a gigantic ruin, was their way now.
-- A field of outsiders are always going in to bowl at the Public Service, and we block the balls.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some harpooneers will consume almost an entire morning in this business, carrying the line high aloft and then reeving it downwards through a block towards the tub, so as in the act of coiling to free it from all possible wrinkles and twists.
-- The end of the hawser-like rope winding through these intricacies, was then conducted to the windlass, and the huge lower block of the tackles was swung over the whale; to this block the great blubber hook, weighing some one hundred pounds, was attached.
-- Hear me, then: I take that mast-head flame we saw for a sign of good luck; for those masts are rooted in a hold that is going to be chock a' block with sperm-oil, d'ye see; and so, all that sperm will work up into the masts, like sap in a tree.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as the boy begins to harden, she'll care no more for him, than for a block of wood.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, after a great deal of time lost in searching for a stone, I gave it over, and resolved to look out for a great block of hard wood, which I found, indeed, much easier; and getting one as big as I had strength to stir, I rounded it, and formed it on the outside with my axe and hatchet, and then with the help of fire and infinite labour, made a hollow place in it, as the Indians in Brazil make their canoes.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Block after block passed by.
-- She would have done nearly as well with a block of wood.
-- He did not go within a block of the house.
-- Chapter XXVIII A PILGRIM, AN OUTLAW--THE SPIRIT DETAINED The cab had not travelled a short block before Carrie, settling herself and thoroughly waking in the night atmosphere, asked: "What's the matter with him?
-- The new flat was located in Thirteenth Street, a half block west of Sixth Avenue, and contained only four rooms.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jim said it would take him a year to scrabble such a lot of truck on to the logs with a nail, and he didn't know how to make letters, besides; but Tom said he would block them out for him, and then he wouldn't have nothing to do but just follow the lines.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
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