gunpowder是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 黑色火药； 有烟火药，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a whirlpool of boiling waters has a centre point, so, all this raging circled round Defarge's wine-shop, and every human drop in the caldron had a tendency to be sucked to-wards the vortex where Defarge himself, already begrimed with gunpowder and sweat, issued orders, issued arms, thrust this man back, dragged this man forward, disarmed one to arm another, laboured and strove in the thickest of the uproar.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another convulsive kick in the ribs, and old Gunpowder sprang upon the bridge; he thundered over the resounding planks; he gained the opposite side; and now Ichabod cast a look behind to see if his pursuer should vanish, according to rule, in a flash of fire and brimstone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In thiscoffer, his riches hid themselves with such a tenacious modesty,that the smallest in- stalments could only be tempted out byartifice; so that Peggotty had to prepare a long and elaboratescheme, a very Gunpowder Plot, for every Saturday's expenses.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That wouldn't be very nice, I'm afraid ''Not very nice alone,' he interrupted, quite eagerly: 'but you've no idea what a difference it makes mixing it with other things such as gunpowder and sealing-wax.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Letters from men at the front complained constantly of shoes that wore outin a week, gunpowder that would not ignite, harness that snapped at any strain, meat that was rotten and flour that wasfull of weevils.
-- "Dey'sbuhnin' de foun'ry an' de ahmy supply depots an' de wa'houses an', fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett, dey done set off demsebenty freight cahs of cannon balls an' gunpowder an', Jesus, we's all gwine ter buhn up!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I wish I could collect all the Facts we hear so much about,' said Tom, spitefully setting his teeth, 'and all the Figures, and all the people who found them out: and I wish I could put a thousand barrels of gunpowder under them, and blow them all up together!However, when I go to live with old Bounderby, I'll have my revenge.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If another Gunpowder Plot had been discovered half an hour before the lighting of the match, nobody would have been justified in saving the parliament until there had been half a score of boards, half a bushel of minutes, several sacks of official memoranda, and a family-vault full of ungrammatical correspondence, on the part of the Circumlocution Office.
-- 'I have not forsworn society since I joined the brotherhood of the brush (the most delightful fellows on the face of the earth), and am glad enough to smell the old fine gunpowder now and then, though it did blow me into mid-air and my present calling.
-- There were black traces on his lips where they met, as if a little train of gunpowder had been fired there; and he looked like a man who, if his natural temperament had been quicker, would have been very feverish that morning.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are made pleasant to some, but I would more rather give my boys gunpowder to play with than this bad trash.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Here's the house broken into,' said the doctor, 'and a couple of men catch one moment's glimpse of a boy, in the midst of gunpowder smoke, and in all the distraction of alarm and darkness.
-- Among other ingenious surmises, the question was then raised, whether Mr. Giles had really hit anybody; and upon examination of the fellow pistol to that which he had fired, it turned out to have no more destructive loading than gunpowder and brown paper: a discovery which made a considerable impression on everybody but the doctor, who had drawn the ball about ten minutes before.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another reflection was of great use to me, and doubtless would be so to any one that should fall into such distress as mine was; and this was, to compare my present condition with what I at first expected it would be; nay, with what it would certainly have been, if the good providence of God had not wonderfully ordered the ship to be cast up nearer to the shore, where I not only could come at her, but could bring what I got out of her to the shore, for my relief and comfort; without which, I had wanted for tools to work, weapons for defence, and gunpowder and shot for getting my food.
-- After Friday and I became more intimately acquainted, and that he could understand almost all I said to him, and speak pretty fluently, though in broken English, to me, I ac-quainted him with my own history, or at least so much of it as related to my coming to this place: how I had lived there, and how long; I let him into the mystery, for such it was to him, of gunpowder and bullet, and taught him how to shoot.
-- In a word, I gave them every part of my own story; and told them I should prevail with the captain to leave them two barrels of gunpowder more, and some garden-seeds, which I told them I would have been very glad of.
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