rail是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 栏杆; 横杆; vi. 责骂，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：
-- A fearful shock followed, and, thrown over the rail without having time to stop myself, I fell into the sea.
-- But the moment he seized the rail with both hands, he, in his turn, was overthrown.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dick would return some matter-of-course reply, and Mr Brass standing on the bottom rail of his stool, so as to get a view of the street over the top of the window-blind, would take an observation of the visitors.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There it is now, a little travel-worn, truly; and one of the ivory bars is cracked, and a brass rail bent; but the rest of it's sound enough.
-- Solid to the touch for I put out my hand and felt the rail of it and with brown spots and smears upon the ivory, and bits of grass and moss upon the lower parts, and one rail bent awry.
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