sickle是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 镰刀，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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The elder brother smiled when he heard that, and thought to himself: 'Good-ness, what a blockhead that brother of mine is!He will never be good for anything as long as he lives!He who wants to be a sickle must bend himself betimes.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was sadly put to it for a scythe or sickle to cut it down, and all I could do was to make one, as well as I could, out of one of the broadswords, or cutlasses, which I saved among the arms out of the ship.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was nothing in the way of fighting that Kala Nag, the old wise Black Snake, did not know, for he had stood up more than once in his time to the charge of the wounded tiger, and, curling up his soft trunk to be out of harm's way, had knocked the springing brute sideways in mid-air with a quick sickle cut of his head, that he had invented all by him-self; had knocked him over, and kneeled upon him with his huge knees till the life went out with a gasp and a howl, and there was only a fluffy striped thing on the ground for Kala Nag to pull by the tail.
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