chest是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 胸腔， 胸膛； 箱， 柜，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Don't forget to put a newspaper across your chest under your shirt.
-- Then, as the last cannon and limber chest came groaning and splashing up, she saw him, slender,erect, his long silver hair wet upon his neck, riding easily upon a little strawberry mare that picked her way as daintilythrough the mud holes as a lady in a satin dress.
-- His stubbly chin sank heavily in loose folds of flesh on his chest With aneffort he spoke again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her chest had dropped, so that she stooped; and her voice had dropped, so that she spoke low, and with a dead lull upon her; altogether, she had the appearance of having dropped body and soul, within and without, under the weight of a crushing blow.
-- Mr. Pumblechook began again when he had recovered; folding his arms tight on his chest and applying the screw.
-- But if you think as Money can make compensation to me for the loss of the little child--what come to the forge--and ever the best of friends!--"O dear good Joe, whom I was so ready to leave and so unthankful to, I see you again, with your muscular blacksmith's arm before your eyes, and your broad chest heaving, and your voice dying away.
-- He had left his desk, brought out his two greasy office candlesticks and stood them in line with the snuffers on a slab near the door, ready to be extinguished; he had raked his fire low, put his hat and great-coat ready, and was beating himself all over the chest with his safe-key, as an athletic exercise after business.
-- By dint of straining that term out of myself several times and tapping the old gentleman on the chest to associate it with him, I at last succeeded in making my meaning understood.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shepherd did as she bade him, and next morning just as day dawned, he saw the chest open, and the flower come out.
-- 'Yes, my child,' said the wife, and she gave her a beautiful apple out of the chest; the chest had a very heavy lid and a large iron lock.
-- She threw the apple into the chest and shut it to.
-- He went down again, and as he knew what he had to do, he did it thoroughly, and brought a chest full of gold out with him.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When it was there, he gave directions to fasten an-other cable to the ring fixed in the cover, and to raise up my chest with pulleys, which all the sailors were not able to do above two or three feet.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His chest and back were as much too broad, as his legs were too short.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To make up the exact list of our traveling gear--for the guidance of future travelers--add, that we carried a medicine and surgical chest with all apparatus necessary for wounds, fractures and blows; lint, scissors, lancets--in fact, a perfect collection of horrible looking instruments; a number of vials containing ammonia, alcohol, ether, Goulard water, aromatic vinegar, in fact, every possible and impossible drug--finally, all the materials for working the Ruhmkorff coil!
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：
-- He looked so well and ruddy in the face, his shoulders were broad and strong, his chest deep, he had put on flesh.
-- The room was bare save for a little yel-low-painted chest of drawers, and a chair: and the smallish white bed in which she lay with him.
-- The bare little room!Nothing in it at all but the small chest of draw-ers and the smallish bed.
-- 'On your chest it's nearly black, and your hair isn't dark on your head: but your moustache is hard and dark red, and your hair here, your love-hair, is like a little brush of bright red-gold mistletoe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With that the doctor took a comb from the chimney-piece and stuck his hair upright which appeared to be his way of washing himself produced a professional chest or case, of most abject appearance, from the cupboard where his cup and saucer and coals were, settled his chin in the frowsy wrapper round his neck, and became a ghastly medical scarecrow.
-- His chest swelled, and his legs got weak, and he was short of breath.
-- Amy opened a drawer in an old piece of furniture that was a chest of drawers above and a bedstead below, and produced two little bundles, which she handed to her brother and sister.
-- The chest of the grey-haired gentleman who was the Chief of the important party, had swelled as if with a protest against his being numbered among poor devils.
-- He had concealed a dropsy from infancy, he had inherited a large estate of water on the chest from his grandfather, he had had an operation performed upon him every morning of his life for eighteen years, he had been subject to the explosion of important veins in his body after the manner of fireworks, he had had something the matter with his lungs, he had had something the matter with his heart, he had had something the matter with his brain.
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