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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as they grew calmer they asked a complete string of questions, and Lady Helena recounted the whole story of the document, telling them that their father had been wrecked on the coast of Patagonia, and that he and two sailors, the sole survivors, appeared to have reached the shore, and had written an appeal for help in three languages and committed it to the care of the waves.
-- CHAPTER XVIII IN SEARCH OF WATERLAKE SALINAS ends the string of lagoons connected with the Sierras Ventana and Guamini.
-- They returned to the RAMADA, bringing back the string of partridges, the ostrich, the peccary, and the armadillo.
-- Paganel was carefully carrying some black swallows' eggs, and a string of sparrows, which he meant to serve up later under the name of field larks.
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：
-- As you look at their gray stone huts against the scarred hill-sides you leave your own age behind you, and if you were to see a skin-clad, hairy man crawl out from the low door fitting a flint-tipped arrow on to the string of his bow, you would feel that his presence there was more natural than your own.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her mother was an old, old woman, and they used to sell string and thread, and soap and tobac-co, out of the window of their little house, and lived on the pittance they gained by this trade.
-- Tears stood in his eyes, and yet his speech was nothing but a collection of disconnected sen-tences, without beginning and without end a string of unexpected words and unexpected sentiments colliding with one another, and jumping over one another, as they burst from his lips.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He laid the arrow on the string and prayed to Lycian Apollo, the famous archer, vowing that when he got home to his strong city of Zelea he would offer a hecatomb of first-ling lambs in his honour.
-- He laid the notch of the arrow on the oxhide bowstring, and drew both notch and string to his breast till the arrow-head was near the bow; then when the bow was arched into a half-circle he let fly, and the bow twanged, and the string sang as the arrow flew gladly on over the heads of the throng.
-- Teucer had just taken an arrow from his quiver and had laid it upon the bow-string, but Hector struck him with the jagged stone as he was taking aim and drawing the string to his shoulder; he hit him just where the collar-bone divides the neck from the chest, a very deadly place, and broke the sinew of his arm so that his wrist was less, and the bow dropped from his hand as he fell forward on his knees.
-- Achilles next offered a prize of iron for archery ten double-edged axes and ten with single edges: he set up a ship's mast, some way off upon the sands, and with a fine string tied a pigeon to it by the foot; this was what they were to aim at.
-- 'Whoever,' he said, 'can hit the pigeon shall have all the axes and take them away with him; he who hits the string without hitting the bird will have taken a worse aim and shall have the single-edged axes.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Is it meant to use as you use the string of good-smelling wooden beads hanging over your glass?'
-- It's no use, Jo, he's got to learn that I'm able to take care of my-self, and don't need anyone's apron string to hold on by.'
-- Half-finished boats and bits of string lay among the manu-scripts.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wanted to, last Sunday, but I stopped him just as he was goin' out of the door with four heads strung on a string, for all the airth like a string of inions."
-- As for Men-of-War, when they chance to meet at sea, they first go through such a string of silly bowings and scrapings, such a ducking of ensigns, that there does not seem to be much right-down hearty good-will and brotherly love about it at all.
-- But the predestinated mate coming still closer to him, where the Lakeman stood fixed, now shook the heavy hammer within an inch of his teeth; meanwhile repeating a string of insufferable maledictions.
-- pointing to the ship; "well, that's the figure one; now take all the hoops in the Pequod's hold, and string along in a row with that mast, for oughts, do you see; well, that wouldn't begin to be Fedallah's age.
-- The coffin laid upon two line-tubs, between the vice-bench and the open hatchway; the Carpenter caulking its seams; the string of twisted oakum slowly unwinding from a large roll of it placed in the bosom of his frock. Ahab comes slowly from the cabin-gangway, and hears Pip following him.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having thus fed him with boiled meat and broth, I was resolved to feast him the next day by roasting a piece of the kid: this I did by hanging it before the fire on a string, as I had seen many people do in England, setting two poles up, one on each side of the fire, and one across the top, and tying the string to the cross stick, letting the meat turn con-tinually.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They arrived in due time at the place of destination, and as soon as the string of carriages before them would allow, alighted, ascended the stairs, heard their names announced from one landing-place to another in an audible voice, and entered a room splendidly lit up, quite full of company, and insufferably hot.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was charmed by the pale face, the lissome figure, draped in pearl grey, with a coiled string of pearls at the throat.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Seventeen!My land!Why, I wouldn't set out such a string as that, not if I NEVER got to glory.
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