string是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 线, 细绳; 弦，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：
-- After looking doubtfully at it, two or three times, as if to be sure that it was really there, he laid down his work, put his hand to his neck, and took off a blackened string with a scrap of folded rag attached to it.
-- After what has happened, and after his recovery, I find it difficult to imagine any such violent sounding of that string again.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the snow began to fall so thickly that the little boy could not see an arm's length before him, but still on he went: when suddenly he let go the string he held in his hand in order to get loose from the sledge, but it was of no use; still the little vehicle rushed on with the quickness of the wind.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You're always..." she began a string of reproaches.
-- "It's just this," said the doctor, taking a finger of his kid glove in his white hands and pulling it, "if you don't strain the strings, and then try to break them, you'll find it a difficult job; but strain a string to its very utmost, and the mere weight of one finger on the strained string will snap it.
-- A string of carts was moving across it.
-- Chapter 5 After lunch Levin was not in the same place in the string of mowers as before, but stood between the old man who had accosted him jocosely, and now invited him to be his neighbor, and a young peasant, who had only been married in the autumn, and who was mowing this summer for the first time.
-- And immediately after this came the delicious, slow saunter, with his hand on the scythe, during which he could wipe away the streaming sweat, take deep breaths of air, and look about at the long string of mowers and at what was happening around in the forest and the country.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Trying to untie the string and turning to the window, to the light (all her windows were shut, in spite of the sti-fling heat), she left him altogether for some seconds and stood with her back to him.
-- All at once he noticed a string on her neck; he tugged at it, but the string was strong and did not snap and besides, it was soaked with blood.
-- In his impatience he raised the axe again to cut the string from above on the body, but did not dare, and with difficulty, smearing his hand and the axe in the blood, -after two minutes' hurried effort, he cut the string and took it off without touching the body with the axe; he was not mistaken it was a purse.
-- On the string were two crosses, one of Cyprus wood and one of copper, and an image in sil-ver filigree, and with them a small greasy chamois leather purse with a steel rim and ring.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he wound the string in, and it came lower and lowerdown out of the beautiful light, until it fluttered to the ground, andlay there like a dead thing, he seemed to wake gradually out of adream; and I remember to have seen him take it up, and look abouthim in a lost way, as if they had both come down together, so that Ipitied him with all my heart.
-- But he was greatestof all, perhaps, in the articles of string and straw; with which wewere all persuaded he could do anything that could be done byhands.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Harriet, tempted by every thing and swayed by half a word, was always very long at a purchase; and while she was still hanging over muslins and changing her mind, Emma went to the door for amusement. Much could not be hoped from the traffic of even the busiest part of Highbury; Mr. Perry walking hastily by, Mr. William Cox letting himself in at the office-door, Mr. Cole's carriage-horses returning from exercise, or a stray letter-boy on an obstinate mule, were the liveliest objects she could presume to expect; and when her eyes fell only on the butcher with his tray, a tidy old woman 282 Emmatravelling homewards from shop with her full basket, two curs quarrelling over a dirty bone, and a string of dawdling children round the baker's little bow-window eyeing the gin-gerbread, she knew she had no reason to complain, and was amused enough; quite enough still to stand at the door.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole string of trailing individuals advanced in the completest balance of intention, like the remarkable creatures known as Chain Salp脙娄, which, distinctly organized in other respects, have one will common to a whole family.
-- To hide her embarrassment during the unwonted process of untying the string about his neck, she said: "I have never seen that you spoke of."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Hans, as he gave the butcher the cow; and taking the pig off the wheel-barrow, drove it away, holding it by the string that was tied to its leg.
-- Then he took the string in his hand, and drove off the pig by a side path; while Hans went on the way homewards free from care.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seems, upon my first reaching the shore after our shipwreck, I was in such con-fusion, that before I came to the place where I went to sleep, my hat, which I had fastened with a string to my head while I was rowing, and had stuck on all the time I was swimming, fell off after I came to land; the string, as I conjecture, break-ing by some accident, which I never observed, but thought my hat had been lost at sea.
-- On these pack-threads the people strung their petitions, which mounted up directly, like the scraps of paper fastened by school boys at the end of the string that holds their kite.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a string of people already straggling in, whom it was not difficult to identify as the nondescript messengers, go-betweens, and errand-bearers of the place.
-- There was no speaking among the string of riders.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should choose this if I might,' replied Amy, looking with great admiration at a string of gold and ebony beads from which hung a heavy cross of the same.
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