dock是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 船坞, 码头; 刑事被告席; v. 引入船坞, 削减薪金、 供应等，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their children are sometimes congenital idiots, like the hero of our story; sometimes they are found in the dock at the Assizes, where they are generally acquitted by the jury for edifying motives; sometimes they distinguish themselves by one of those burning scandals that amaze the public and add another blot to the stained record of our age.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It hovered over his head in the likeness of Nestor, son of Neleus, whom Agamemnon honoured above all his councillors, and said: 'You are sleeping, son of Atreus; one who has the wel-fare of his host and so much other care upon his shoulders should dock his sleep.
-- It hovered over my head and said, 'You are sleeping, son of Atreus; one who has the welfare of his host and so much other care upon his shoulders should dock his sleep.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, the gaol was a vile place, in which most kinds of debauchery and villainy were prac-tised, and where dire diseases were bred, that came into court with the prisoners, and sometimes rushed straight from the dock at my Lord Chief Justice himself, and pulled him off the bench.
-- Pres-ently, the dock became the central point of interest.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Montgomery steered us round and into a narrow little dock excavated in the beach.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before he died, from his dock a ship with a cargo of wheat steamed off to Marseilles.
-- Aboard, it seemed to him that the forward deck looked like the backyard of an old-iron dealer, that the St. Buryan leaned too much to one side, and that even in the dock she swayed undesirably.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ' 'Oh yes, to be sure yes, I did,' says Mr Swiveller with a smile. 'Have the goodness to banish a levity, sir, which is very ill-suited to the place in which you stand (though perhaps you have reason to be thankful that it's only that place),' says Mr Brass's gentleman, with a nod of the head, insinuating that the dock is Mr Swiveller's legitimate sphere of action; 'and attend to me.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I set off, overjoyed at this opportunity to see some more of the ships and seamen, and picked my way among a great crowd of people and carts and bales, for the dock was now at its busiest, until I found the tavern in question.
-- Ah, it's a fine dance I'm with you there and looks mighty like a hornpipe in a rope's end at Execution Dock by London town, it does.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He received an answer from some little Dock beyond, and was towed out of sight directly.
-- Pancks steamed out of his little dock at a quarter before six, and bore straight down for the Patriarch, who happened to be then driving, in an inane manner, through a stagnant account of Bleeding Heart Yard.
-- At which identical evening hour and minute, the Patriarch who had floated serenely through the Yard in the forenoon before the harrying began, with the express design of getting up this trustfulness in his shining bumps and silken locks at which identical hour and minute, that first-rate humbug of a thousand guns was heavily floundering in the little Dock of his exhausted Tug at home, and was saying, as he turned his thumbs:'A very bad day's work, Pancks, very bad day's work.
-- With this spectacle before him, Arthur had risen to go, when from the inner Dock where the good ship Pancks was hove down when out in no cruising ground, the noise was heard of that steamer labouring towards him.
-- However, he steamed in and out of his little back Dock according as he was wanted or not wanted in the Patriarchal presence, and business had gone on in its customary course.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I measured the distance of ground, and resolved to cut a dock or canal, to bring the water up to the canoe, seeing I could not bring the canoe down to the water.
-- In about three miles or thereabouts, coast-ing the shore, I came to a very good inlet or bay, about a mile over, which narrowed till it came to a very little rivulet or brook, where I found a very convenient harbour for my boat, and where she lay as if she had been in a little dock made on purpose for her.
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