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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I clung to it: then I felt that I was being drawn up, that I was brought to the surface of the water, that my chest collapsed I fainted.
-- The voracious creature shot towards the Indian, who threw himself on one side to avoid the shark's fins; but not its tail, for it struck his chest and stretched him on the ground.
-- Near this piece of furniture, I saw a chest bound with iron, on the cover of which was a copper plate, bearing the cypher of the Nautilus with its device.
-- The chest was securely fastened, and the Captain wrote an address on the lid, in characters which must have belonged to Modern Greece.
-- Four men appeared, and, not without some trouble, pushed the chest out of the saloon.
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：
-- And the violent striking of blood in his chest was sinking quieter, allowing his mind to come back.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Someone's turned the chest out alow and aloft."
-- In the meantime the captain, whom I had observed to be wonderfully swollen about the chest and pockets, had turned out a great many various stores the British colours, a Bible, a coil of stoutish rope, pen, ink, the log-book, and pounds of tobacco.
-- He lingered all day, breathing loudly like the old buccaneer at home in his apoplectic fit, but the bones of his chest had been crushed by the blow and his skull fractured in falling, and some time in the following night, without sign or sound, he went to his Maker.
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