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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the latitude alone, I would engage to go right to the place where the wreck happened."
-- Since the wreck of the Blendon Hall in 1821, on the rocks of Inaccessible Island, two vessels have stranded on the chief island—the PRIMANGUET in 1845, and the three-mast American, PHILADELPHIA, in 1857.
-- "Thanks to our friend, all that remains to be done now is to get to Australia, and look out for traces of the wreck on the western coast."
-- Besides, the natives who scent a wreck as the vultures do a dead body, would have pounced upon it and carried off the smaller DEBRIS.
-- Irrevocably, indeed, they might consider it, for as Paganel had judiciously demonstrated, if the wreck had occurred on the eastern side, the survivors would have found their way back to their own country long since.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It looks like part of a wreck half buried in the sand."
-- No other articles or pieces of wreck could be found.
-- If there had been a wreck on the coast, as was supposed, there would be many things cast up, which would be lawfully their prizes.
-- For the last time the engineer could ascertain that not a sail nor the wreck of a ship was on the sea, and even with the telescope nothing suspicious could be discovered.
-- Gideon Spilett proposed to continue the exploration, that the question of the supposed wreck might be completely settled, and he asked at what distance Claw Cape might be from the extremity of the peninsula.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the wreck of his possessions, he began to trade in pictures first, and then in curious ancient things.
-- As many restless spirits, who have hunted fortune, fame, or pleasure through the world, retire in their decline to where they first drew breath, vainly seeking to be children once again before they die, so we, less fortunate than they in early life, but happier in its closing scenes, will set up our rest again among our boyish haunts, and going home with no hope realised, that had its growth in manhood carrying back nothing that we brought away, but our old yearnings to each other saving no fragment from the wreck of life, but that which first endeared it may be, indeed, but children as at first.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Right before us, at the southern end, we saw the wreck of a ship in the last stages of dilapidation.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stubb saw him pause; and perhaps intending, not vainly, though, to evince his own unabated fortitude, and thus keep up a valiant place in his Captain's mind, he advanced, and eyeing the wreck exclaimed "The thistle the ass refused; it pricked his mouth too keenly, sir; ha!ha!"
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- - It rained all night and all day, with some gusts of wind; during which time the ship broke in pieces, the wind blowing a little harder than before, and was no more to be seen, except the wreck of her, and that only at low water.
-- - In the morning, looking towards the sea side, the tide being low, I saw something lie on the shore bigger than ordinary, and it looked like a cask; when I came to it, I found a small barrel, and two or three pieces of the wreck of the ship, which were driven on shore by the late hurricane; and looking towards the wreck itself, I thought it seemed to lie higher out of the water than it used to do.
-- I examined the barrel which was driven on shore, and soon found it was a barrel of gunpowder; but it had taken water, and the powder was caked as hard as a stone; however, I rolled it farther on shore for the present, and went on upon the sands, as near as I could to the wreck of the ship, to look for more.
-- The forecastle, which lay before buried in sand, was heaved up at least six feet, and the stern, which was broke in pieces and parted from the rest by the force of the sea, soon after I had left rummaging her, was tossed as it were up, and cast on one side; and the sand was thrown so high on that side next her stern, that whereas there was a great place of water before, so that I could not come within a quarter of a mile of the wreck without swimming I could now walk quite up to her when the tide was out.
-- - Went to the wreck again, not with an intent to work, but found the weight of the wreck had broke itself down, the beams being cut; that several pieces of the ship seemed to lie loose, and the inside of the hold lay so open that I could see into it; but it was almost full of water and sand.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, it being away in the night and stormy, and all so mysterious-like, I felt just the way any other boy would a felt when I see that wreck laying there so mournful and lone-some in the middle of the river.
-- He'd call it an adventure that's what he'd call it; and he'd land on that wreck if it was his last act.
-- The lightning showed us the wreck again just in time, and we fetched the stabboard derrick, and made fast there.
-- and he answered up, right at my elbow, with a sort of a moan, and I says: 'Quick, Jim, it ain't no time for fooling around and moan-ing; there's a gang of murderers in yonder, and if we don't hunt up their boat and set her drifting down the river so these fellows can't get away from the wreck there's one of 'em going to be in a bad fix.
-- Shut up Won a wreck with such a gang as that!But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.
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