shaft是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 矛; 矿井; 车辕; 轴; 光线，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A huge driving-wheel and a shaft half-filled with rubbish showed the position of an abandoned mine.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When King Agamemnon saw the blood flowing from the wound he was afraid, and so was brave Menelaus him-self till he saw that the barbs of the arrow and the thread that bound the arrow-head to the shaft were still outside the wound.
-- Here Hec-tor entered, with a spear eleven cubits long in his hand; the bronze point gleamed in front of him, and was fastened to the shaft of the spear by a ring of gold.
-- He cut it clean in two just behind where the point was fastened on to the shaft of the spear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through such an atmosphere, by a steep dark shaft of dirt and poison, the way lay.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Venus had risen above the branch, and the ear of the Great Bear with its shaft was now all plainly visible against the dark blue sky, yet still he waited.
-- The shaft-horses were tilted against the shafts by the ruts, but the dexterous driver sitting on the box held the shaft over the ruts, so that the wheels ran on the smooth part of the road.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The massive walking-beam rose and fell above the deck; at one end a piston-rod worked up and down; and at the other was a connecting-rod which, in changing the rectilinear motion to a circular one, was directly connected with the shaft of the paddles.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's my property,' shouted Mikolka and brought the shaft down with a swinging blow.
-- And Mikolka swung the shaft a second time and it fell a second time on the spine of the luckless mare.
-- But the six whips were at-tacking her in all directions, and the shaft was raised again and fell upon her a third time, then a fourth, with heavy measured blows.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I had to clamber down a shaft of perhaps two hundred yards.
-- I had some thought of trying to go up the shaft again, and leave the Underworld alone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun was striking in at the great windows of the court, through the glittering drops of rain upon the glass, and it made a broad shaft of light between the two-and-thirty and the Judge, linking both together, and perhaps reminding some among the audience how both were passing on, with absolute equality, to the greater Judgment that knoweth all things, and cannot err.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- WHELP-HUNTINGBefore the ring formed round the Old Hell Shaft was broken, one figure had disappeared from within it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 37 THE MYSTERIOUS DAGGER CHAPTER 38 NO OUTLET--BLASTING THE ROCK CHAPTER 39 THE EXPLOSION AND ITS RESULTS CHAPTER 40 THE APE GIGANS CHAPTER 41 HUNGER CHAPTER 42 THE VOLCANIC SHAFT CHAPTER 43 DAYLIGHT AT LAST CHAPTER 44 THE JOURNEY ENDED CHAPTER 1 MY UNCLE MAKES A GREAT DISCOVERY Looking back to all that has occurred to me since that eventful day, I am scarcely able to believe in the reality of my adventures.
-- The sides of the shaft were getting closer and closer together, we were approaching the regions of eternal night!
-- Just as we were about to engulf ourselves in this dismal passage, I lifted up my head, and through the tubelike shaft saw that Iceland sky I was never to see again!
-- "That I can see," was my lugubrious reply; "but where will this shaft end, and to what fall are we likely to be exposed?"
-- "The great concern I have now, however, is to know whether this shaft has any issue.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A communication of great trap-doors in the floor and roof with the workshop above and the workshop below, made a shaft of light in this perspective, which brought to Clennam's mind the child's old picture-book, where similar rays were the witnesses of Abel's murder.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was surprised to behold resting against the wall the wooden shaft of Queequeg's harpoon, which the landlady the evening previous had taken from him, before our mounting to the chamber.
-- The subterranean miner that works in us all, how can one tell whither leads his shaft by the ever shifting, muffled sound of his pick?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took to the gutter, the roughness of which I found painful to my feet, and forthwith the shaft of a crawling hansom dug me forcibly under the shoulder blade, reminding me that I was already bruised severely.
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