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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, Tom, be careful how you take it out," said Lord Glenarvan, "for bottles found in the sea often contain precious documents."
-- The French document is decidedly the most complete of the three; but it is plain enough that each is the literal translation of the other, for they all contain exactly the same number of lines.
-- Numerous expeditions were formerly made there from Buenos Ayres, to collect the salt deposited on its banks, as the waters contain great quantities of chloride of sodium.
-- At last Paganel could contain himself no longer, and seizing Harry Grant's hand, he exclaimed:"Captain!will you tell me at last what really was in your indecipherable document?"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Adelaida could not contain herself.
-- Aglaya looked menacingly at her laughing sisters, but could not contain herself any longer, and the next minute she too had burst into an irrepressible, and almost hysteri-cal, fit of mirth.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Minerva scowled at her father, for she was in a furious passion with him, and said nothing, but Juno could not contain herself.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only insurmountable obstacle was that I had no vessel to contain the water I should need if I floated forth upon these untravelled seas.
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：
-- On a strip of land, which ap-peared from his stand too narrow to contain such an army, but which, in truth, extended many hundreds of yards from the shores of the Horican to the base of the mountain, were to be seen the white tents and military engines of an en-campment of ten thousand men.
-- Everywhere along its bands were the moldering relics of dead trees, in all the stages of decay, from those that groaned on their tottering trunks to such as had recently been robbed of those rugged coats that so mysteriously contain their principle of life.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hard eggs were excellent, and as eggs contain everything indispensable to man's nourishment, these poor people thought themselves well off, and were much strengthened by them.
-- Who can say, that at this period, the equatorial regions will not be too small, to contain and nourish terrestrial humanity?
-- In fact, the canoe probably would not have been able to contain the articles possibly enclosed in the chest, which doubtless was heavy, since two empty barrels were required to buoy it up.
-- It appeared that the chest did not contain something which he evidently held in great esteem, for in proportion as they approached the bottom of the box, his hurrahs diminished in heartiness, and, the inventory finished, he was heard to mutter these words: "That's all very fine, but you can see that there is nothing for me in that box!"
-- It had been decided that a corral should be established near the sources of the Red Creek, at the foot of Mount Franklin, destined to contain the ruminants, whose presence would have been troublesome at Granite House, and especially for the musmons, who were to supply the wool for the settlers' winter garments.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus, in the case of an ancient coffin of rough stone, supposed, for many generations, to contain the bones of a certain baron, who, after ravaging, with cut, and thrust, and plunder, in foreign lands, came back with a penitent and sorrowing heart to die at home, but which had been lately shown by learned antiquaries to be no such thing, as the baron in question (so they contended) had died hard in battle, gnashing his teeth and cursing with his latest breath the bachelor stoutly maintained that the old tale was the true one; that the baron, repenting him of the evil, had done great charities and meekly given up the ghost; and that, if ever baron went to heaven, that baron was then at peace.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little had been left besides the framework of the house, but in one corner there was a stone slab laid down by way of hearth and an old rusty iron basket to contain the fire.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although the island seems uninhabited, it might still contain some individuals that would be less hard than we on the nature of game."
-- Moreover, the sight of them excited him, and he could contain himself no longer.
-- Such an oyster would contain 30 lb.
-- "Perhaps so," said Conseil; "but, in any case, the Nautilus can only contain a certain number of men.
-- Ned Land could not contain himself; he threatened and swore at them.
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：
-- "No," she replied, in a low inhuman tone, that seemed to contain a chuckle.
-- Only Birkin kept the fear definitely off him, saved him his quick sufficiency in life, by the odd mobility and changeableness which seemed to contain the quintessence of faith.
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