cluster是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 一串, 一簇; vi. 群集; 丛生，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：
-- cried Paganel, "a hotel in a Maori village!you would not find an inn, not a tavern!This village will be a mere cluster of huts, and so far from seeking rest there, my advice is that you give it a wide berth."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These, though known for their valour and their breed, were whimpering in a cluster at the head of a deep dip or goyal, as we call it, upon the moor, some slink-ing away and some, with starting hackles and staring eyes, gazing down the narrow valley before them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After long and lonely spurring over dreary roads, they would come to a cluster of poor cottages, not steeped in darkness, but all glittering with lights, and would find the people, in a ghostly man-ner in the dead of the night, circling hand in hand round a shrivelled tree of Liberty, or all drawn up together singing a Liberty song.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- STRODE through the undergrowth that clothed the I ridge behind the house, scarcely heeding whither I went; passed on through the shadow of a thick cluster of straight-stemmed trees beyond it, and so presently found myself some way on the other side of the ridge, and descending to-wards a streamlet that ran through a narrow valley.
-- Then came Moreau in a cluster of the Beast People, his wide-brimmed straw hat blown off, his revolver in hand, and his lank white hair streaming out.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes a tuft of high grass washed along his sides as a wave washes along the sides of a ship, and sometimes a cluster of wild-pepper vines would scrape along his back, or a bamboo would creak where his shoulder touched it.
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：
-- At length they reached a point in the river where the roving eye of Heyward be-came riveted on a cluster of black objects, collected at a spot where the high bank threw a deeper shadow than usual on the dark waters.
-- When Magua reached the cluster of lolling savages, who, gorged with their disgusting meal, lay stretched on the earth in brutal indulgence, he commenced speaking with the dignity of an Indian chief.
-- Duncan kept close at his heels, and soon found himself in the center of a cluster of twenty anxious relatives and friends.
-- The place which had been chosen for the grave of Cora was a little knoll, where a cluster of young and healthful pines had taken root, forming of themselves a melancholy and appropriate shade over the spot.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was studying trypanosomes from a rat--an eight-branched rosette stained with polychrome methylene blue; a cluster of organisms delicate as a narcissus, with their purple nuclei, their light blue cells, and the thin lines of the flagella.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Occasionally they came upon a cluster of poor cottages, some with a chair or low board put across the open door to keep the scrambling children from the road, others shut up close while all the family were working in the fields.
-- It was nearly five o'clock in the afternoon, when drawing near another cluster of labourers' huts, the child looked wistfully in each, doubtful at which to ask for permission to rest awhile, and buy a draught of milk.
-- It was more than boy could bear, and with a joyous whoop the whole cluster took to their heels and spread themselves about, shouting and laughing as they went.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it came out, through my admiring a very fine cluster of geranium beautiful cluster of geranium to be sure which he had brought from his conservatory.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A cluster of grave yet cheerful pansies on a deeper purple ground was pronounced very appropriate and pret-ty, and beth worked away early and late, with occasional lifts over hard parts.
-- A cluster of tea-rose buds at the bosom and a ruche, reconciled Meg to the display of her pretty, white shoulders, and a pair of high-heeled silk boots satisfied the last wish of her heart.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the first place, the enormous cutting tackles, among other ponderous things comprising a cluster of blocks generally painted green, and which no single man can possibly lift this vast bunch of grapes was swayed up to the main-top and firmly lashed to the lower mast-head, the strongest point anywhere above a ship's deck.
-- A cluster of dark nods replied, Yes.
-- While this pallidness was burning aloft, few words were heard from the enchanted crew; who in one thick cluster stood on the forecastle, all their eyes gleaming in that pale phosphorescence, like a far away constellation of stars.
-- At last, when the ship drew near to the outskirts, as it were, of the Equatorial fishing-ground, and in the deep darkness that goes before the dawn, was sailing by a cluster of rocky islets; the watch then headed by Flask was startled by a cry so plaintively wild and unearthly like half-articulated wailings of the ghosts of all Herod's murdered Innocents that one and all, they started from their reveries, and for the space of some moments stood, or sat, or leaned all transfixedly listening, like the carved Roman slave, while that wild cry remained within hearing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the heart of this cluster of huts; and skirting the river, which its upper stories overhung; stood a large building, formerly used as a manufactory of some kind.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 18 ill Elizabeth entered the drawing-room at Netherfield, Tand looked in vain for Mr. Wickham among the cluster of red coats there assembled, a doubt of his being present had never occurred to her.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the ceilings were coloured traceries with more gilt, leading to a centre where spread a cluster of lights-- incandescent globes mingled with glittering prisms and stucco tendrils of gilt.
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