armour是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 盔甲, 装甲部队，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As when some great forest fire is raging upon a mountain top and its light is seen afar, even so as they marched the gleam of their armour flashed up into the firmament of heaven.
-- His force was far both finest and most numerous, and in their midst was the king himself, all glo-rious in his armour of gleaming bronze foremost among the heroes, for he was the greatest king, and had most men under him.
-- He bids the Trojans and Achaeans lay their armour upon the ground, while he and Menelaus fight in the midst of you for Helen and all her wealth.
-- His armour is laid upon the ground, and he stalks in front of the ranks as it were some great woolly ram ordering his ewes.'
-- As he spoke he sprang from his chariot, and his armour rang so fiercely about his body that even a brave man might well have been scared to hear it.
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：
-- But before the armour of his pity really broke, he would die, as an insect when its shell is cracked.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I longed to pierce his armour of complete indifference.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Behold me, on the morrow, in a much-worn little white hat, with ablack crape round it for my mother, a black jacket, and a pair ofhard stiff corduroy trouserswhich Miss Murdstone considered thebest armour for the legs in that fight with the world which wasnow to come off- behold me so attired, and with my little worldlyall before me in a small trunk, sitting, a lone lorn child (as Mrs.Gummidge might have said), in the post-chaise that was carryingMr. Quinion to the London coach at Yarmouth!See, how our houseand church are lessening in the distance; how the grave beneath 149the tree is blotted out by intervening objects; how the spire pointsupward from my old playground no more, and the sky is empty!
-- Yet the bells, when they sounded, told mesorrowfully of change in everything; told me of their own age, andmy pretty Dora's youth; and of the many, never old, who hadlived and loved and died, while the reverberations of the bells hadhummed through the rusty armour of the Black Prince hanging upwithin, and, motes upon the deep of Time, had lost themselves inair, as circles do in water.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were suits of mail standing like ghosts in armour here and there, fantastic carvings brought from monkish cloisters, rusty weapons of various kinds, distorted figures in china and wood and iron and ivory: tapestry and strange furniture that might have been designed in dreams.
-- Some part of the edifice had been a baronial chapel, and here were effigies of warriors stretched upon their beds of stone with folded hands cross-legged, those who had fought in the Holy Wars girded with their swords, and cased in armour as they had lived.
-- He showed her too, how the warriors, whose figures rested on the tombs, had worn those rotting scraps of armour up above how this had been a helmet, and that a shield, and that a gauntlet and how they had wielded the great two-handed swords, and beaten men down, with yonder iron mace.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had dressed the hive with herbs and honey, fetched a ladder, brush, and crook, made herself impregnable with armour of leather gloves, straw hat, and large gauze veil once green but now faded to snuff colour and ascended a dozen rungs of the ladder.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and a Knight dressed in crimson armour came galloping down upon her, brandishing a great club.
-- Years afterwards she could bring the whole scene back again, as if it had been only yesterday the mild blue eyes and kindly smile of the Knight the setting sun gleaming through his hair, and shining on his armour in a blaze of light that quite dazzled her the horse quietly moving about, with the reins hanging loose on his neck, cropping the grass at her feet and the black shadows of the forest behind all this she took in like a picture, as, with one hand shading her eyes, she leant against a tree, watching the strange pair, and listening, in a half dream, to the melancholy music of the song.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You shall like-wise have a suit of red armour for the occasion, and ride on 354 Grimms' Fairy Talesa spirited chestnut-horse.'
-- On the third day, he received from Iron Hans a suit of black armour and a black horse, and again he caught the apple.
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