wreck是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 破坏, 船舶失事; 失事船只，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.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On his head there was a wreck of a hat of indefinite form, but his gun of a new patent was a perfect gem, and his game bag and cartridge belt, though worn, were of the very best quality.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a melodramatic flourish Martin protested, "And I suppose I haven't a thing to say if they wreck the Department!"
-- When the train stopped between stations and from the engine came a questioning, fretful whistle, he was aghast with certainty that something had gone wrong--a bridge was out, a train was ahead of them; perhaps another was coming just behind them, about to smash into them at sixty miles an hour-- He imagined being wrecked, and he suffered more than from the actual occurrence, for he pictured not one wreck but half a dozen, with assorted miseries.
-- Stokes begged him at least to turn the work over to another doctor and take what interest he could in St. Swithin's, but Martin had a bitter satisfaction in throwing away all his significance, in helping to wreck his own purposes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was not always the wreck you 655at present behold.'
-- Some efforts were even then beingmade, to cut this portion of the wreck away; for, as the ship, whichwas broadside on, turned towards us in her rolling, I plainlydescried her people to work with axes, especially one active figurewith long curling hair, conspicuous among the rest.
-- As he spoke, there was another great cry of pity fromthe beach; four men arose with the wreck out of the deep, clingingto the rigging of the remaining mast; uppermost, the active figurewith the curling hair.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a face of perplexed dismay Troy turned the corner and then beheld the wreck the stream had made.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He must have been a noble creature in his better days, being even now in wreck so at-tractive and amiable.
-- Beaufort had saved but a very small sum of money from the wreck of his fortunes, but it was sufficient to provide him with sustenance for some months, and in the mean-time he hoped to procure some respectable employment in a merchant's house.
-- Sometimes I grew alarmed at the wreck I perceived that I had become; the energy of my purpose alone sustained me: my labours would soon end, and I believed that exercise and amusement would then drive away incipient disease; and I promised myself both of these when my creation should be complete.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The major incharge didn't want to let that out until the printing was done, for fear the crowd would wreck the offices trying to getnews.
-- surviving the wreck of Napoleon's throne, had founded his fortunes anewon the fertile Georgia coast; Great-grandfather Prudhomme had carved a small kingdom out of the dark jungles ofHaiti, lost it, and lived to see his name honored in Savannah.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Above all, she was a blessing to Joe, for the dear old fellow was sadly cut up by the constant contemplation of the wreck of his wife, and had been accustomed, while attending on her of an evening, to turn to me every now and then and say, with his blue eyes moistened, "Such a fine figure of a woman as she once were, Pip!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is the drifting icebergs setting with any current anywhere, that wreck the ships.
-- She had suffered the wreck of her whole life upon the rock.
-- They walked on across the fields and down the shady lanes, sometimes getting over a fragment of a fence so rotten that it dropped at a touch of the foot, sometimes passing near a wreck of bricks and beams overgrown with grass, marking the site of deserted works.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of raising; and looked at him with eyes which assuredly, in association with her patient face, her fragile figure, her spare dress, and the wind and rain, did not turn him from his purpose of helping her.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A universal shriek arose as the russet boots waved wild-ly from the wreck and a golden head emerged, exclaiming, 'I told you so!I told you so!'
-- One forlorn fragment of dollanity had belonged to Jo and, having led a tempestu-ous life, was left a wreck in the rag bag, from which dreary poorhouse it was rescued by Beth and taken to her refuge.
-- With the wreck of her frail body, Beth's soul grew strong, and though she said little, those about her felt that she was ready, saw that the first pilgrim called was likewise the fittest, and waited with her on the shore, trying to see the Shining Ones coming to receive her when she crossed the river.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the first engraving a noble Sperm Whale is depicted in full majesty of might, just risen beneath the boat from the profundities of the ocean, and bearing high in the air upon his back the terrific wreck of the stoven planks.
-- For, by this time, so spent was he by loss of blood, that he helplessly rolled away from the wreck he had made; lay panting on his side, impotently flapped with his stumped fin, then over and over slowly revolved like a waning world; turned up the white secrets of his belly; lay like a log, and died.
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