poker是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 扑克, 拨火铁棒, 直挺挺的, 僵硬的，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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is hazardous to play poker with them, but their ingenuity adds a peculiar excitement to the best game in the world.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Nonsense,' cried Nastasia Philipovna, seizing the poker and raking a couple of logs together.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, the scaffolding was made again, and Kit, climbing up with the poker for a hammer, knocked in the nail and hung up the cage, to the immeasurable delight of the whole family.
-- The small servant flew to the coal-cellar; Miss Sally dived into her own bed-room; Mr Brass, who was not remarkable for personal courage, ran into the next street, and finding that nobody followed him, armed with a poker or other offensive weapon, put his hands in his pockets, walked very slowly all at once, and whistled.
-- Mr Swiveller stared at him for a moment, and then leaping from his stool, and drawing out the poker from its place of concealment, performed the broad-sword exercise with all the cuts and guards complete, in a species of frenzy.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gripping the poker firmly, he rushed into the room, closely followed by Mrs. Bunting.
-- I am a fairly strong man, and I have the poker handy besides being invisible.
-- "When I came into this room," continued the Invisible Man, after presenting the poker to the tip of the nose of each of his visitors, "I did not expect to find it occupied, and I expected to find, in addition to my books of memoranda, an outfit of clothing.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew of several poker rooms down town.
-- The poker room which he first invaded was over a saloon in West Street, near one of the ferries.
-- "I'm old enough to play poker and do something with it.
-- So off he went to a poker room in the neighbourhood, feeling much as he had in the old days.
-- This poker room was much like the other one, only it was a back room in a better drinking resort.
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