stage是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 舞台， 戏剧； 阶段， 时期，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He leaned down across the counter until his mouth was near her ear and hissed, in a very creditable imitation ofthe stage villains who appeared infrequently at the Athenaeum Hall: "Fear not, fair lady!Your guilty secret is safe withme!"
-- Nothing but my devotion to you would make me, at this stage of my career, turn horse thief and thief of such a horse.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is the end of the first stage of Pip's expectations.
-- This guileless confectioner was not by any means sober, and had a black eye in the green stage of recovery, which was painted over.
-- I thought the windows of the sets of chambers into which those houses were divided were in every stage of dilapidated blind and curtain, crippled flower-pot, cracked glass, dusty decay, and miserable makeshift; while To Let, To Let, To Let, glared at me from empty rooms, as if no new wretches ever came there, and the vengeance of the soul of Barnard were being slowly appeased by the gradual suicide of the present occupants and their unholy interment under the gravel.
-- After a prolonged absence at this stage of the entertainment, he at length came back with a casket of precious appearance containing twigs.
-- THIS IS THE END OF THE SECOND STAGE OF PIP'S EXPECTATIONS.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the people observed I was quiet, they discharged no more ar-rows; but, by the noise I heard, I knew their numbers increased; and about four yards from me, over against my right ear, I heard a knocking for above an hour, like that of people at work; when turning my head that way, as well as the pegs and strings would permit me, I saw a stage erected about a foot and a half from the ground, capable of holding four of the inhabitants, with two or three ladders to mount it: from whence one of them, who seemed to be a person of quality, made me a long speech, whereof I understood not one syllable.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The same great manufacturer, always with an immense variety of work on hand, in every stage of development, passed Sissy onward in his mill, and worked her up into a very pretty article indeed.
-- Young Thomas and Sissy being both at such a stage of their working up, these changes were effected in a year or two; while Mr. Gradgrind himself seemed stationary in his course, and underwent no alteration.
-- If his second leg had not been already there when he was called a dear fellow, he would have put it up at that great stage of the conversation.
-- Judging him by Nature's evidence, he was above the mass in very little but the stage on which he stood.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the last stage of our journey.
-- CHAPTER 12 THE ASCENT OF MOUNT SNEFFELS The huge volcano which was the first stage of our daring experiment is above five thousand feet high.
-- "And at this stage of our journey, according to all known laws on the increase of heat, there should be here a temperature of fifteen hundred degrees of Reaumur."
-- The atmosphere is being gradually loaded with vapors, which carry with them the electricity formed by the constant evaporation of the saline waters; the clouds are slowly but sensibly falling towards the sea, and are assuming a dark-olive texture; the electric rays can scarcely pierce through the opaque curtain which has fallen like a drop scene before this wondrous theater, on the stage of which another and terrible drama is soon to be enacted.
-- Your name engraved at every important stage of your glorious journey leads the hopeful traveler direct to the great and mighty discovery to which you devoted such energy and courage.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And since the field of life is largely an artificially-lighted stage today, the stories were curiously true to modern life, to the modern psychol-ogy, that is.
-- He had pushed his way by sheer instinct and sheerer effron-tery on to the stage and to the front of it, with his plays.
-- But this is a later stage of King Edward's landscape gar-dening, the sort that has an ornamental coal-mine on the lawn.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The landlady shook her head; it being the first conversational stage at which her vivacious earnestness had ceased to nod it, keeping time to what she said.
-- The Patriarch, as if he now began to perceive that his part in the piece was to get off the stage as soon as might be, rose, and went to the door by which Pancks had worked out, hailing that Tug by name.
-- With the sensation of becoming more and more light-headed every minute, Clennam saw the relict of the late Mr F. enjoying herself in the most wonderful manner, by putting herself and him in their old places, and going through all the old performances now, when the stage was dusty, when the scenery was faded, when the youthful actors were dead, when the orchestra was empty, when the lights were out.
-- When he got to his lodging, he sat down before the dying fire, as he had stood at the window of his old room looking out upon the blackened forest of chimneys, and turned his gaze back upon the gloomy vista by which he had come to that stage in his existence.
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