metal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 金属， 金属制品，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：
-- The mules were richly caparisoned, with the Arab bit in their mouths, and long reins of plaited leather, which served as a whip; the headstall of the bridle was decorated with metal ornaments, and the ALFORJAS, double sacks of gay colored linen, containing the day's provisions.
-- "How full and sonorous it is!It is like the metal church bells are made of—composed of seventy-eight parts of copper and twenty-two of tin."
-- It was not a movement like earthquake, but that peculiar tremor that affects the metal of a boiler under high pressure.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There an't such a rusty bit of metal in the place as its own hinges, I believe; and I'm sure there's no such old bones here, as mine.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- New York and San Francisco are thus united by an uninterrupted metal ribbon, which measures no less than three thousand seven hundred and eighty-six miles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How somebody, lying in my bed, lay saying and doing all thisover again, at cross-purposes, in a feverish dream all night- the beda rocking sea that was never still!How, as that somebody slowlysettled down into myself, did I being to parch, and feel as if myouter covering of skin were a hard board; my tongue the bottom of 339an empty kettle, furred with long service, and burning up over aslow fire; the palms of my hands, hot plates of metal which no icecould cool!
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A collection of dim- ribbed glass decanters, metal discs with a satin sheen on them, and piles of blue-edged earthenware plates of Touraine ware cover the sticky surfaces of the sideboards that line the room.
-- The table was upturned, and Goriot had doubtless in some way secured a silver plate and cup to the bar before knotting a thick rope round them; he was pulling at this rope with such enormous force that they were being crushed and twisted out of shape; to all appearance he meant to convert the richly wrought metal into ingots.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a steady little dink-clink of metal on metal and cries of "Wait wait!I've got it unfastened now.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Queen of Denmark, a very buxom lady, though no doubt historically brazen, was considered by the public to have too much brass about her; her chin being attached to her diadem by a broad band of that metal (as if she had a gorgeous toothache), her waist being encircled by another, and each of her arms by another, so that she was openly mentioned as "the kettle-drum."
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Menelaus reassured him and said, 'Take heart, and do not alarm the people; the arrow has not struck me in a mortal part, for my outer belt of burnished metal first stayed it, and under this my cuirass and the belt of mail which the bronze-smiths made me.'
-- Now when the son of Lycaon saw him scouring the plain and driving the Trojans pell-mell before him, he aimed an arrow and hit the front part of his cuirass near the shoul-der: the arrow went right through the metal and pierced the flesh, so that the cuirass was covered with blood.
-- He then struck the middle of the son of Phyleus' shield with his spear, setting on him at close quar-ters, but his good corslet made with plates of metal saved him; Phyleus had brought it from Ephyra and the river Sell-eis, where his host, King Euphetes, had given it him to wear in battle and protect him.
-- He ran a ditch of dark metal all round it, and fenced it with a fence of tin; there was only one path to it, and by this the vintagers went when they would gather the vintage.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Geology and mineralogy were to us the sole objects of life, and in connection with these studies many a fair specimen of stone, chalk, or metal did we break with our hammers.
-- Too hot by half, if the degree of heat was to ascend so high--in which case we should certainly be cooked--not enough, if we wanted to ascertain the exact temperature of springs or metal in a state of fusion.
-- In 1864 he won the quinquennial French prize of 脗拢2,000 for this ingenious application of electricity--A voltaic battery, so called from Volta, its designer, is an apparatus consisting of a series of metal plates arranged in pairs and subjected to the action of saline solutions for producing currents of electricity.
-- The mass of va por becomes incandescent; the hailstones which strike the metal of our boots and our weapons are actually luminous; the waves as they rise appear to be fire-eating monsters, beneath which seethes an intense fire, their crests surmounted by combs of flame.
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：
-- There, in the world of the mechanical greedy, greedy mechanism and mechanized greed, sparkling with lights and gushing hot metal and roaring with traffic, there lay the vast evil thing, ready to destroy whatever did not conform.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well then,' said Doyce, with a sigh, 'as I know what such a metal will do at such a temperature, and such a body under such a pressure, so I may know (if I will only consider), how these great lords and gentlemen will certainly deal with such a matter as mine.
-- At this end of the Yard and over the gateway, was the factory of Daniel Doyce, often heavily beating like a bleeding heart of iron, with the clink of metal upon metal.
-- 'Wherever she lives,' said Mrs Clennam, speaking in one unmodulated hard voice, and separating her words as distinctly as if she were reading them off from separate bits of metal that she took up one by one, 'she has made a secret of it, and she shall always keep her secret from me.'
-- But glimpses were to be caught of a roast leg of pork bursting into tears of sage and onion in a metal reservoir full of gravy, of an unctuous piece of roast beef and blisterous Yorkshire pudding, bubbling hot in a similar receptacle, of a stuffed fillet of veal in rapid cut, of a ham in a perspiration with the pace it was going at, of a shallow tank of baked potatoes glued together by their own richness, of a truss or two of boiled greens, and other substantial delicacies.
-- It has always large dull metal buttons, similar to no other buttons.
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