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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just that instant when you place your head on the block and hear the iron grate over your head then that quarter of a second is the most awful of all.
-- There is one point that cannot be forgotten, round which everything else dances and turns about; and because of this point he cannot faint, and this lasts until the very final quarter of a second, when the wretched neck is on the block and the victim listens and waits and KNOWS that's the point, he KNOWS that he is just NOW about to die, and listens for the rasp of the iron over his head.
-- Gania stood at the door like a block and looked on in silence, putting no obstacle in the way of their entrance, and ten or a dozen men marched in behind Parfen Rogojin.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came down out of the tangle of ropes under the stays of the smashed bowsprit, some small rope caught his heel as he let go, and he hung for a moment head downward, and then fell and struck a block or spar floating in the water.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the palace you could see the rows and rows of roofless houses that made up the city looking like empty honeycombs filled with blackness; the shapeless block of stone that had been an idol in the square where four roads met; the pits and dimples at street corners where the public wells once stood, and the shattered domes of temples with wild figs sprouting on their sides.
-- We must block that end.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having thrown a rapid glance around him, the engineer seated himself on a block of stone.
-- I mean, on the contrary, to block up that opening, to seal it hermetically, and, if it is necessary, to completely hide the entrance by making a dam, and thus causing the water of the lake to rise."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It blundered against a block of granite, staggered aside, and in a moment was hidden in a black shadow beneath another pile of ruined masonry.
-- This appeared to be devoted to minerals, and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder.
-- I lit the block of camphor and flung it to the ground, and as it split and flared up and drove back the Morlocks and the shadows, I knelt down and lifted her.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had soon touched land in the same place as before and set to provision the block house.
-- So we proceeded without pausing to take breath, till the whole cargo was bestowed, when the two servants took up their position in the block house, and I, with all my power, sculled back to the Hispaniola.
-- They paused as if taken aback, and before they recovered, not only the squire and I, but Hunter and Joyce from the block house, had time to fire.
-- And I hope" raising his voice "that all hands in this here block house will overhaul my words, for what is spoke to one is spoke to all."
-- Before an hour's out, I'll stove in your old block house like a rum puncheon.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The white petals re-entered their red cases, the flowers faded as I looked, and the bush changed into a block of stony knobs.
-- It was evidently a block without any possible egress.
-- I saw him standing on a block of basalt, his instruments near him, his eyes fixed on the northern horizon, near which the sun was then describing a lengthened curve.
-- "An enormous block of ice, a whole mountain, has turned over," he replied.
-- Look at the needle of the manometer; it shows that the Nautilus is rising, but the block of ice is floating with it; and, until some obstacle stops its ascending motion, our position cannot be altered."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They arrived at a large block of buildings, went up in a lift, and presently a door was being opened for them by a Hindu.
-- In the short blond moustache the life-breath was frozen into a block of ice, beneath the silent nostrils.
扩展阅读：