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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So you see they don't aim at the chest or head; they aim lower on purpose.
-- It was a large room, well furnished, with a cup-board, chest of drawers, sofa, and my bed, a fine wide bed covered with a silken counterpane.
-- 'It hid itself under the cupboard and under the chest of drawers, and crawled into the corners.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The chiefs disposed their men this way and that before the fight began, drafting them out as easily as goatherds draft their flocks when they have got mixed while feeding; and among them went King Agamemnon, with a head and face like Jove the lord of thunder, a waist like Mars, and a chest like that of Neptune.
-- The old man next looked upon Ulysses; 'Tell me,' he said, 'who is that other, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, but broader across the chest and shoulders?
-- There was no play nor graceful movement of his sceptre; he kept it straight and stiff like a man unpractised in oratory one might have taken him for a mere churl or simpleton; but when he raised his voice, and the words came driving from his deep chest like winter snow before the wind, then there was none to touch him, and no man thought further of what he looked like.'
-- As he was leaving the body, Thoas of Aetolia struck him in the chest near the nipple, and the point fixed itself in his lungs.
-- First he girded his goodly greaves about his legs, making them fast with ankleclasps of silver; and about his chest he set the breastplate which Cinyras had once given him as a guest-gift.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Mr. Thomas Marvel, with a strange feeling of having been dug in the chest by a finger.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I ran furiously up the slope, over it, then turning eastward along a rocky valley fringed on either side with jungle I ran for perhaps a mile altogether, my chest straining, my heart beating in my ears; and then hearing nothing of Montgomery or his man, and feeling upon the verge of exhaustion, I doubled sharply back towards the beach as I judged, and lay down in the shelter of a canebrake.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The crowd parted as the woman beckoned Mowgli to her hut, where there was a red lacquered bedstead, a great earthen grain chest with funny raised patterns on it, half a dozen copper cooking pots, an image of a Hindu god in a little alcove, and on the wall a real looking glass, such as they sell at the country fairs.
-- 'Well, I got one cut across the chest once, but that wasn't Dick's fault ' 'A lot I should have cared whose fault it was, if it hurt!'
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：
-- Bounding from his footsteps he appeared for an instant darting through the air and descending in a ball he fell on the chest of his enemy, driving him many yards from the spot, headlong and prostrate.
-- He gazed for a moment at the dusky forms that were acting their hellish rites on every side of him, and his tall person grew more erect while his chest heaved, and every feature swelled, and seemed to speak with the power of the feelings by which he was governed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His chest heaved and he seemed to try to speak.
-- And now, whence had this chest come?
-- But the thought which came naturally to the settlers was, that these strangers could not be Malay pirates, for the chest was evidently of American or European make.
-- It was evident that this chest had been thrown overboard from some dismasted vessel driven towards the island, and that, in the hope that it would reach the land, where they might afterwards find it, the passengers had taken the precaution to buoy it up by means of this floating apparatus.
-- "We will tow this chest to Granite House," said the engineer, "where we can make an inventory of its contents; then, if we discover any of the survivors from the supposed wreck, we can return it to those to whom it belongs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be difficult to suppose that there ever was a box which was opened and shut so many times within four-and-twenty hours, as that which contained his wardrobe and necessaries; and certainly there never was one which to two small eyes presented such a mine of clothing, as this mighty chest with its three shirts and proportionate allowance of stockings and pocket-handkerchiefs, disclosed to the astonished vision of little Jacob.
-- A few strange chairs, whose arms and legs looked as though they had dwindled away with age; a table, the very spectre of its race: a great old chest that had once held records in the church, with other quaintly-fashioned domestic necessaries, and store of fire-wood for the winter, were scattered around, and gave evident tokens of its occupation as a dwelling-place at no very distant time.
-- See here this is a little chest of the last kind, clasped at the edges with fragments of brass plates that had writing on 'em once, though it would be hard to read it now.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We'll have that chest open, if we die for it.
-- It was like any other seaman's chest on the outside, the initial "B" burned on the top of it with a hot iron, and the corners somewhat smashed and broken as by long, rough usage.
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