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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The word was not soon-er said than the deed was done: they brought out the seven tripods which Agamemnon had promised, with the twenty metal cauldrons and the twelve horses; they also brought the women skilled in useful arts, seven in number, with Bri-seis, which made eight.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I spent more than a fortnight grubbing among the black ruins of the en-closure and on the beach where the boats had been burnt, looking for nails and other stray pieces of metal that might prove of service.
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：
-- 'These devils will scale heaven to circumvent us to our ruin,' said Hawkeye; 'keep him in play, boy, until I can bring 'killdeer' to bear, when we will try his metal on each side of the tree at once.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is the cause of the wealth of the mines in Great Britain, where the coal aids the manufacture of the metal extracted from the same soil at the same time as itself.
-- But the metal was not yet in its most serviceable state, that is, of steel.
-- He succeeded by heating the metal with powdered coal in a crucible which had previously been manufactured from clay suitable for the purpose.
-- Utensils:-1 iron pot, 6 copper saucepans, 3 iron dishes, 10 metal plates, 2 kettles, 1 portable stove, 6 table-knives, Books:-1 Bible, 1 atlas, 1 dictionary of the different Polynesian idioms, 1 dictionary of natural science, in six volumes; 3 reams of white paper, 2 books with blank pages.
-- This was also indicated by the second case of metal which had preserved them from damp, and which could not have been soldered in a moment of haste.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Hard-hearted as the metal from which she takes her name,' said Quilp.
-- The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the truer metal and bear the stamp of Heaven.
-- In a large and lofty building, supported by pillars of iron, with great black apertures in the upper walls, open to the external air; echoing to the roof with the beating of hammers and roar of furnaces, mingled with the hissing of red-hot metal plunged in water, and a hundred strange unearthly noises never heard elsewhere; in this gloomy place, moving like demons among the flame and smoke, dimly and fitfully seen, flushed and tormented by the burning fires, and wielding great weapons, a faulty blow from any one of which must have crushed some workman's skull, a number of men laboured like giants.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There I found a seat of some yellow metal that I did not recognise, corroded in places with a kind of pinkish rust and half smothered in soft moss, the arm-rests cast and filed into the resemblance of griffins' heads.
-- It was so like a human spider!It was clambering down the wall, and now I saw for the first time a number of metal foot and hand rests forming a kind of ladder down the shaft.
-- My first was to secure some safe place of refuge, and to make myself such arms of metal or stone as I could contrive.
-- The Trap of the White Sphinx"About eight or nine in the morning I came to the same seat of yellow metal from which I had viewed the world upon the evening of my arrival.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Steps sounded on the metal flags.
-- In submarine works, the workman, clad in an impervious dress, with his head in a metal helmet, receives air from above by means of forcing pumps and regulators."
-- There remained nothing more to be done but to enclose our heads in the metal box.
-- It served as a reservoir for compressed air, which a valve, worked by a spring, allowed to escape into a metal tube.
-- The upper part of our dress terminated in a copper collar upon which was screwed the metal helmet.
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