brass是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 黄铜， 铜器，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：
-- The iron railings look just like the door to an old family vault, and then they have brass tops that's so stupid!'
-- That was a house to look at; and there lived an old man, who wore plush breeches; and he had a coat with large brass buttons, and a wig that one could see was a real wig.
-- And the brass balls on the iron railings shone much brighter than ever; one would have thought they were pol-ished on account of the visit; and it was as if the carved-out trumpeters-for there were trumpeters, who stood in tulips, carved out on the door blew with all their might, their cheeks appeared so much rounder than before.
-- It seemed really to the little maiden as though she were sitting before a large iron stove, with burnished brass feet and a brass ornament at top.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They're all as pleased as brass halfpence.
-- "Pleased and happy as a brass farthing," he added, stopping to shake hands with a handsome gentleman of the bedchamber of colossal proportions.
-- The iron roofs, the flags of the roads, the flints of the pavements, the wheels and leather, the brass and the tinplate of the carriages--all glistened brightly in the May sunshine.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The murmur soon became more distinct; it now seemed like a distant concert of human voices accompanied by brass instruments.
-- A small brass cannon stood on the forward deck of the Tankadere, for making signals in the fogs.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By sheer brass and obstinacy he had, at fourteen, become the unofficial, also decidedly unpaid, assistant to the Doc, and while the Doc was on a country call he took charge--though what there was to take charge of, no one could ever make out.
-- Once Clif produced the masterpiece of throwing a brick into the sink beside the platform, just when Dr. Robertshaw was working up to his annual climax about the effects of brass bands on the intensity of the knee-jerk.
-- The students who had learned to look through the microscope without having to close one eye were proud and professional, and all of them talked of the beauty of identifying the bacillus, as they twiddled the brass thumbscrews to the right focus and the cells rose from cloudiness to sharp distinctness on the slides before them.
-- The cone of light cast a gloss on the bright brass tube, a sheen on his black hair, as he bent over the eyepiece.
-- As he bent over the brass tube and focused the objective, into the gray-lavender circular field of vision rose to existence the grape-like clusters of staphylococcus germs, purple dots against the blank plane.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shebrought with her two uncompromising hard black boxes, with herinitials on the lids in hard brass nails.
-- I looked anxiouslyaround; but the inquiry made no impression on any of thebystanders, if I except a man in gaiters, with one eye, whosuggested that they had better put a brass collar round my neck,and tie me up in the stable.
-- The centre of the street-door wasperfectly covered with a great brass plate, on which was engraved'Mrs.
-- The old-fashioned brass knocker on thelow arched door, ornamented with carved garlands of fruit andflowers, twinkled like a star; the two stone steps descending to thedoor were as white as if they had been covered with fair linen; andall the angles and corners, and carvings and mouldings, and quaintlittle panes of glass, and quainter little windows, though as old asthe hills, were as pure as any snow that ever fell upon the hills.
-- Uriah, having taken thepony to a neighbouring stable, was at work at a desk in this room,which had a brass frame on the top to hang papers upon, and onwhich the writing he was making a copy of was then hanging.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He thoroughly cleaned his silver watch-chain with whiting, put new lacing straps to his boots, looked to the brass eyelet-holes, went to the inmost heart of the plantation for a new walking-stick, and trimmed it vigorously on his way back; took a new handkerchief from the bottom of his clothes-box, put on the light waistcoat patterned all over with sprigs of an elegant flower uniting the beauties of both rose and lily without the defects of either, and used all the hair-oil he possessed upon his usually dry, sandy, and inextricably curly hair, till he had deepened it to a splendidly novel colour, between that of guano and Roman cement, making it stick to his head like mace round a nutmeg, or wet seaweed round a boulder after the ebb.
-- The man to whom she was hooked was brilliant in brass and scarlet.
-- Dazzled by brass and scarlet Oh, Bathsheba this is woman's folly indeed!"
-- They were about to withdraw for a while into the charitable shade of a tree in the fence, when Coggan saw a figure in a blue coat and brass buttons running to them across the field.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stentor wasa man with a voice like a brass gong."
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