contain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 包含， 容纳； 容忍， 抑制； 可被…除尽，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The haystacks could not possibly contain fifty wagon-loads each, and to convict the peasants Levin ordered the wagons that had carried the hay to be brought up directly, to lift one stack, and carry it into the barn.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he was altogether sure that the vaccine did not contain living blackleg organisms, he was much more delighted than if he had found that good Mr. Dawson Hunziker was producing honest vaccine.
-- In their hotel room they stared at the envelope as though it was likely to contain poison.
-- It did not contain much save a round table, a few chairs, and a Sybaritic glass and mahogany wall-cabinet whose purpose was never discovered.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We ascended into my room, and the servant presently brought breakfast; but I was unable to contain myself.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some time after, asking a friend at court how they came to fix on that determinate number, he told me that his majesty's mathematicians, having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and find-ing it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain at least 1724 of theirs, and consequently would require as much food as was necessary to support that number of Lilliputians.
-- My answer was, 'that we were overstocked with books of travels: that nothing could now pass which was not extraordinary; wherein I doubted some authors less consulted truth, than their own vanity, or in-terest, or the diversion of ignorant readers; that my story could contain little beside common events, without those ornamental descriptions of strange plants, trees, birds, and other animals; or of the barbarous customs and idolatry of savage people, with which most writers abound.
-- The captain said, 'that while we were at supper, he observed me to look at every thing with a sort of wonder, and that I often seemed hardly able to contain my laughter, which he knew not well how to take, but imputed it to some disorder in my brain.'
-- This advantage has enabled them to extend their discoveries much further than our astronomers in Europe; for they have made a cat-alogue of ten thousand fixed stars, whereas the largest of ours do not contain above one third part of that number.
-- Their verses abound very much in both of these, and usually contain either some exalted notions of friendship and benevolence or the praises of those who were victors in races and other bodily exercises.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His jaw is of awful size and strength, and according to the best-informed naturalists, it does not contain less than a hundred and eighty-two teeth.
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：
-- But it managed to contain a little barrel of beer, as well as a few dishes and bits of food.
-- At lunch she could not contain her feeling.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles, even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by two great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East, dotted all round their banks; here and there are frowned upon by batteries, and by the goat-like craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they yield their beaches to wild barbarians, whose red painted faces flash from out their peltry wigwams; for leagues and leagues are flanked by ancient and unentered forests, where the gaunt pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported furs give robes to Tartar Emperors; they mirror the paved capitals of Buffalo and Cleveland, as well as Winnebago villages; they float alike the full-rigged merchant ship, the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer, and the beech canoe; they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.
-- There are three whales and three boats; and one of the boats (presumed to contain the missing leg in all its original integrity) is being crunched by the jaws of the foremost whale.
-- And as for the other whale, why, I'll agree to get more oil by chopping up and trying out these three masts of ours, than he'll get from that bundle of bones; though, now that I think of it, it may contain something worth a good deal more than oil; yes, ambergris.
-- From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop.
-- And so, such hearts, though summary in each one suffering; still, if the gods decree it, in their life-time aggregate a whole age of woe, wholly made up of instantaneous intensities; for even in their pointless centres, those noble natures contain the entire circumferences of inferior souls.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Bennet deigned not to make any reply, but, unable to contain herself, began scolding one of her daughters.
-- Chapter 36 f Elizabeth, when Mr. Darcy gave her the letter, did Inot expect it to contain a renewal of his offers, she had formed no expectation at all of its contents.
-- 'Yes,' replied Darcy, who could contain himself no lon-ger, 'but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsom-est women of my acquaintance.'
-- Mrs. Bennet could hardly contain herself.
-- She was no sooner in possession of it than, hurrying into the little copse, where she was least likely to be interrupted, she sat down on one of the benches and prepared to be happy; for the length of the letter convinced her that it did not contain a denial.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she suddenly asked, bethinking herself of the manager, who, from her own observation, seemed to contain promising material.
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