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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wodger, of the "Purple Fawn," and Mr. Jaggers, the cobbler, who also sold old second-hand ordinary bicycles, were stretching a string of union-jacks and royal ensigns (which had originally celebrated the first Victorian Jubilee) across the road.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then they sleep and wake and sleep again, and weave little baskets of dried grass and put grass-hoppers in them; or catch two praying mantises and make them fight; or string a necklace of red and black jungle nuts; or watch a lizard basking on a rock, or a snake hunting a frog near the wallows.
-- Then evening comes and the children call, and the buffaloes lumber up out of the sticky mud with noises like gunshots going off one after the other, and they all string across the gray plain back to the twin-kling village lights.
-- One new elephant had nearly grubbed up his picket, and Big Toomai took off Kala Nag's leg chain and shackled that elephant fore-foot to hind-foot, but slipped a loop of grass string round Kala Nag's leg, and told him to remember that he was tied fast.
-- Little Toomai was just going to sleep, too, when he heard the coir string snap with a little 'tang,' and Kala Nag rolled out of his pickets as slowly and as silently as a cloud rolls out of the mouth of a valley.
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 remember I fetched from his room what I thought he needed, and he asked Blanche for a piece of paper and some string to make a parcel."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Better to have two strings to one's bow than no string at all!"
-- The settlers went to the Chimneys to take some pickaxes, iron-tipped spears, string made of fibers, flint and steel; they then returned to the plateau, Top accompanying them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She happened, while she was thus engaged, to encounter the face of the man on deck, in whom the sentimental stage of drunkenness had now succeeded to the boisterous, and who, taking from his mouth a short pipe, quilted over with string for its longer preservation, requested that she would oblige him with a song.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The report had scarcely died away ere it was repeated and repeated from without in a scattering volley, shot behind shot, like a string of geese, from every side of the enclosure.
-- English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to wear them round your neck nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection; and for number, I am sure they were like autumn leaves, so that my back ached with stooping and my fingers with sorting them out.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wore no hat in the heated caf脙漏, her loose, simple jumper was strung on a string round her neck.
-- In front, it looked over a lawn, over a few trees, down to a string of fish-ponds in the hollow of the silent park.
-- If you wouldn't let them smash their pots on the table, if you wouldn't let them drag the kitten about with a string round its neck, if you wouldn't give them whatever they asked for, every mortal thing then there was a shine on, and their mother coming in asking 'What's the matter with him?
-- You go to your women go to them they are your sort you've always had a string of them trailing after you and you always will.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He encouraged him to regard Hindley as a reprobate; and, night after night, he regularly grumbled out a long string of tales against Heathcliff and Catherine: always minding to flatter Earnshaw's weakness by heaping the heaviest blame on the latter.
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