kettle是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 水壶，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：
-- McNabbs was right, as the thermometer proved, for it was plunged into the kettle when the water boiled, and the mercury only rose to 99 degrees.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, everybody knows what great friends the princess and Mrs. Epanchin are, so there was a pretty kettle of fish.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A kettle steamed upon the hob, and in the midst of the wreck of pa-pers a table shone, with plenty of wine upon it, and brandy, and rum, and sugar, and lemons.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He found chocolate belonging to an innocent technician; he even invaded the office of the Director and in the desk of the Diana-like Pearl Robbins unearthed tea and a kettle (as well as a lip-stick, and a love-letter beginning "My Little Ickles").
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tea-things were set upon the table, and the kettle was boiling on thehob.
-- 'Oh, certainly,' saidMr. Dick, in a hurry, 'I intend, Trotwood, to get that doneimmediately- it really must be done immediately!And then it willgo in, you know- and then-,' said Mr. Dick, after checking himself,and pausing a long time, 'there'll be a pretty kettle of fish!'
-- ButDora sang, and others sang, and Miss Mills sang- about theslumbering echoes in the caverns of Memory; as if she were ahundred years old- and the evening came on; and we had tea, withthe kettle boiling gipsy-fashion; and I was still as happy as ever.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pot's calling the kettle black.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Last night, old Sanna carried so many buckets of water into the house that I asked her why she was doing that, and she said that if I would promise not to tell anyone, and she said that early tomorrow morning when father was out hunting, she would set the kettle full of water, throw you into it and boil you; but we will get up quickly, dress our-selves, and go away together.'
-- When the water in the kettle was boiling, the cook went into the bedroom to fetch Fundevo-gel and throw him into it.
-- In the winter Snow-white lit the fire and hung the kettle on the hob.
-- The kettle was of brass and shone like gold, so brightly was it polished.
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 went indoors to Clifford's study, where the old brass kettle was simmering on the tray.
-- Mrs Flint flew wildly in to tidy up, and Connie came slowly after her, hesitating in the rather dark kitchen where the kettle was boiling by the fire.
-- The fire was red, rather low, the bar dropped, the kettle singing.
-- As if it were a prison, she thought!The kettle was singing by the red fire, there were cups on the table.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a kettle on the hob, as there had been night and day for fifteen years.
-- On a wintry afternoon at twilight, Mrs Flintwinch, having been heavy all day, dreamed this dream:She thought she was in the kitchen getting the kettle ready for tea, and was warming herself with her feet upon the fender and the skirt of her gown tucked up, before the collapsed fire in the middle of the grate, bordered on either hand by a deep cold black ravine.
-- 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.
-- When they can be got to believe that the kettle is made of the precious metals, in that fact lies the whole power of men like our late lamented.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I planned to spend mine in new music,' said Beth, with a little sigh, which no one heard but the hearth brush and kettle holder.
-- The stage was dark and the glow of the fur-nace had a fine effect, especially as real steam issued from the kettle when the witch took off the cover.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the next place, I had no hops to make it keep, no yeast to made it work, no copper or kettle to make it boil; and yet with all these things want-ing, I verily believe, had not the frights and terrors I was in about the savages intervened, I had undertaken it, and per-haps brought it to pass too; for I seldom gave anything over without accomplishing it, when once I had it in my head to began it.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A rail fence round a two-acre yard; a stile made out of logs sawed off and up-ended in steps, like barrels of a different length, to climb over the fence with, and for the women to stand on when they are going to jump on to a horse; some sickly grass-patches in the big yard, but mostly it was bare and smooth, like an old hat with the nap rubbed off; big double log-house for the white folks hewed logs, with the chinks stopped up with mud or mortar, and these mud-stripes been whitewashed some time or another; round-log kitchen, with a big broad, open but roofed passage joining it to the house; log smoke- house back of the kitchen; three little log nigger-cabins in a row t'other side the smoke-house; one little hut all by itself away down against the back fence, and some outbuildings down a piece the other side; ash- hopper and big kettle to bile soap in by the little hut; bench by the kitchen door, with bucket of water and a gourd; hound asleep there in the sun; more hounds asleep round about; about three shade trees away off in a corner; some currant bushes and gooseberry bushes in one place by the fence; outside of the fence a gar-den and a watermelon patch; then the cotton fields begins, and after the fields the woods.
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