funeral是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 丧葬, 葬礼，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：
-- The day passed without change, and without hope; the funeral ceremonies of the dead chief would doubtless be the signal for their execution.
-- The parents and friends arrived at the foot of the mound, and at a certain moment, as if the leader of an orchestra were leading a funeral chant, there arose a great wail of tears, sighs, and sobs.
-- But no one moved, for the funeral ceremonies were not yet over.
-- The funeral dances commenced.
-- Four warriors took up the litters on their shoulders, and the whole tribe, repeating their funeral chant, followed in procession to the place of sepulture.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The funeral service produced a great effect on the prince.
-- He whispered to Lebedeff that this was the first time he had ever heard a Russian funeral service since he was a little boy.
-- All the day of the funeral our hero, was in a deeply thought-ful state, while Nastasia Philipovna was particularly merry, both in the daytime and in the evening.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you dare send an arrow at Menelaus you will win honour and thanks from all the Trojans, and especially from prince Alexandrus he would be the first to requite you very handsomely if he could see Menelaus mount his funeral pyre, slain by an arrow from your hand.
-- Hard by the funeral pyre we will build a barrow that shall be raised from the plain for all in common; near this let us set about build-ing a high wall, to shelter ourselves and our ships, and let it have well-made gates that there may be a way through them for our chariots.
-- But Meleager son of Oeneus got huntsmen and hounds from many cities and killed it for it was so mon-strous that not a few were needed, and many a man did it stretch upon his funeral pyre.
-- I will wrap him in sand, and pour tons of shingle round him, so that the Achaeans shall not know how to gather his bones for the silt in which I shall have hidden him, and when they celebrate his funeral they need build no barrow.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Romish mass for the dead begins with "Requiem eternam" (eternal rest), whence Requiem denominating the mass itself, and any other funeral music.
-- In life but few of them would have helped the whale, I ween, if peradventure he had needed it; but upon the banquet of his funeral they most piously do pounce.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- GOING TO A FUNERAL FOR THE FIRST TIME, HE FORMS AN UNFAVOURABLE NOTION OF HIS MASTER'S BUSINESS Oliver, being left to himself in the undertaker's shop, set the lamp down on a workman's bench, and gazed timidly about him with a feeling of awe and dread, which many people a good deal older than he will be at no loss to understand.
-- 'For a coffin first, and a porochial funeral afterwards,' replied Mr. Bumble, fastening the strap of the leathern pocket-book: which, like himself, was very corpulent.
-- He had a penny too--a gift of Sowerberry's after some funeral in which he had acquitted himself more than ordinarily well--in his pocket.
-- Another!Again!It was tolling for the funeral service.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No sooner was his father's funeral over, than Mrs. John Dashwood, without sending any notice of her intention to her mother-in-law, arrived with her child and their attendants.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Funeral to-morrow, likely?'
-- That's why they're invited here this evenin'; but to- morrow we want ALL to come everybody; for he respected every-body, he liked everybody, and so it's fitten that his funeral orgies sh'd be public.'
-- And so he went a-mooning on and on, liking to hear himself talk, and every little while he fetched in his funeral orgies again, till the duke he couldn't stand it no more; so he writes on a little scrap of paper, 'OBSEQUIES, you old fool,' and folds it up, and goes to goo-gooing and reaching it over people's heads to him.
-- Asks me to invite everybody to come to the funeral wants me to make 'em all welcome.
-- Then he weaves along again, perfectly ca'm, and goes to dropping in his funeral orgies again every now and then, just like he done before.
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