trench是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. (挖) 沟， (挖) 战壕，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 Tweed, several fathoms wide, digs a deeper trench between Scotland and England than the twenty leagues of Irish Channel, which separates Old Caledonia from the Emerald Isle.
-- They made a little trench so that it might roll down the inclined plane.
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：
-- Look at the great trench in the opposite hill.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Close outside we will dig a deep trench all round it to keep off both horse and foot, that the Trojan chieftains may not bear hard upon us.'
-- Now in the twilight when it was not yet dawn, chosen bands of the Achaeans were gathered round the pyre and built one barrow that was raised in common for all, and hard by this they built a high wall to shelter themselves and their ships; they gave it strong gates that there might be a way through them for their chariots, and close outside it they dug a trench deep and wide, and they planted it within with stakes.
-- See you not how the Achaeans have built a wall about their ships and driven a trench all round it, without offering hecatombs to the gods?
-- There was no man of all the many Danaans who could then boast that he had driven his horses over the trench and gone forth to fight sooner than the son of Tydeus; long be-fore any one else could do so he slew an armed warrior of the Trojans, Agelaus the son of Phradmon.
-- Jove now again put heart into the Trojans, and they drove the Achaeans to their deep trench with Hector in all his glo-ry at their head.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore an explosive substance must be manufactured, which would make a deep trench in some other part of the shore.
-- A new trench was made by the same means in the rocky border of the lake, forming a small stream, to which they gave the name of Creek Glycerine, and which was thus an affluent of the Mercy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here were the rotten beam, the sinking arch, the sapped and mouldering wall, the lowly trench of earth, the stately tomb on which no epitaph remained all marble, stone, iron, wood, and dust one common monument of ruin.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instead of digging round the Nautilus which would have involved greater difficulty, Captain Nemo had an immense trench made at eight yards from the port-quarter.
-- Towards evening the trench was dug one yard deeper.
-- When it floated they towed it so as to bring it above the immense trench made on the level of the water-line.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Herbert, the elder brother and heir, laughed outright, though it was his trees that were falling for trench props.
-- This was one of the places that Sir Geoffrey had cut dur-ing the war for trench timber.
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