roar是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 吼叫, 怒吼, 轰鸣，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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A deafening noise fell on his ear like the roar of artillery.
-- The sun was sinking below the horizon; I sought vainly for footmarks; I began to feel the sharp pangs of hunger, and the gloomy depths of the forest resounded already with the roar of wild beasts.
-- Now and then, when the roar of the eruption became less violent, their cry was heard:"Taboo!taboo!taboo!"
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In front of us as we flew up the track we heard scream after scream from Sir Henry and the deep roar of the hound.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He caught himself, however, indulging in one thought which made him roar with laughter, though there was nothing really to laugh at in it; but he felt that he must laugh, and go on laughing.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mighty was the uproar as the two forces met; the sea came rolling in towards the ships and tents of the Achaeans, but waves do not thunder on the shore more loudly when driven be-fore the blast of Boreas, nor do the flames of a forest fire roar more fiercely when it is well alight upon the moun-tains, nor does the wind bellow with ruder music as it tears on through the tops of when it is blowing its hardest, than the terrible shout which the Trojans and Achaeans raised as they sprang upon one another.
-- As when a wave, raised mountain high by wind and storm, breaks over a ship and covers it deep in foam, the fierce winds roar against the mast, the hearts of the sail-ors fail them for fear, and they are saved but by a very little from destruction even so were the hearts of the Achaeans fainting within them.
-- As the whole dark earth bows before some tempest on an autumn day when Jove rains his hardest to punish men for giving crooked judgement in their courts, and arriving justice therefrom without heed to the decrees of heaven all the rivers run full and the torrents tear many a new channel as they roar headlong from the mountains to the dark sea, and it fares ill with the works of men even such was the stress and strain of the Trojan horses in their flight.
-- As the east and south wind buffet one another when they beat upon some dense forest on the mountains there is beech and ash and spreading cornel; the top of the trees roar as they beat on one another, and one can hear the boughs cracking and breaking even so did the Trojans and Achaeans spring upon one another and lay about each other, and neither side would give way.
-- As a great wave that comes thundering in at the mouth of some heaven-born river, and the rocks that jut into the sea ring with the roar of the breakers that beat and buffet them even with such a roar did the Trojans come on; but the Achaeans in singleness of heart stood firm about the son of Menoetius, and fenced him with their bronze shields.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tiger's roar filled the cave with thunder.
-- A muffled roar came up from behind the rocks the voice of Shere Khan cry-ing: 'The cub is mine.
-- 'Ay, roar well,' said Bagheera, under his whiskers, 'for the time will come when this naked thing will make thee roar to another tune, or I know nothing of man.'
-- He thought that he was at the world's end, but the roar of the seal nurseries behind him sounded as loud as the roar of a train in a tunnel.
-- Old Sea Catch, his father, saw him tearing past, haul-ing the grizzled old seals about as though they had been halibut, and upsetting the young bachelors in all directions; and Sea Catch gave a roar and shouted: 'He may be a fool, but he is the best fighter on the beaches!Don't tackle your father, my son!He's with you!'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still that breathing silence, which marks the drowsy sultriness of an American landscape in July, pervaded the secluded spot, interrupted only by the low voices of the men, the oc-casional and lazy tap of a woodpecker, the discordant cry of some gaudy jay, or a swelling on the ear, from the dull roar of a distant waterfall.
-- Occasionally he would stop; and in the midst of a breathing stillness, that the dull but increasing roar of the waterfall only served to render more impressive, he would listen with painful intenseness, to catch any sounds that might arise from the slumbering forest.
-- 'You are at the foot of Glenn's,' returned the other, speak-ing aloud, without fear of consequences within the roar of the cataract; 'and the next thing is to make a steady land-ing, lest the canoe upset, and you should go down again the hard road we have traveled faster than you came up; 'tis a hard rift to stem, when the river is a little swelled; and five is an unnatural number to keep dry, in a hurry-skurry, with a little birchen bark and gum.
-- Uncas did as the other had directed, and when the voice of Hawkeye ceased, the roar of the cataract sounded like the rumbling of distant thunder.
-- A heavy evening breeze swept along the surface of the river, and seemed to drive the roar of the falls into the recesses of their own cavern, whence it issued heavily and constant, like thun-der rumbling beyond the distant hills.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had wandered into it at noontime, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness around and was prolonged and reverberated by the angry echoes.
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：
-- You've only got to roar a little, and she'll ask you."
-- And above all, ceaseless like time, is the dull roar of the breakers on the reef.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Our guns are only loaded with small shot, and beasts which can roar as loud as that would care no more for it than for grains of salt!"
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