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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And 'tis a voice like brass you have,Ma'm, when you're urging on the hounds, so it is."
-- Every candle and candlestick in Atlanta must be in this hall tonight, she thought,silver ones with a dozen sprangling arms, china ones with charming figurines clustering their bases, old brass stands,erect and dignified, laden with candles of all sizes and colors, smelling fragrantly of bayberries, standing on the gunracks that ran the length of the hall, on the long flower-decked tables, on booth counters, even on the sills of the openwindows where, the draughts of warm summer air were just strong enough to make them flare.
-- A correspondence had sprung up between them and, learning that Melaniehad a husband at the front, the mother had sent her the length of gray cloth and brass buttons which she had bought forher dead son.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if it was a toasting-fork, you'd go into brass and do yourself no credit.
-- Mr. Jaggers's own high-backed chair was of deadly black horsehair, with rows of brass nails round it, like a coffin; and I fancied I could see how he leaned back in it, and bit his forefinger at the clients.
-- The Queen of Denmark, a very buxom lady, though no doubt historically brazen, was considered by the public to have too much brass about her; her chin being attached to her diadem by a broad band of that metal (as if she had a gorgeous toothache), her waist being encircled by another, and each of her arms by another, so that she was openly mentioned as "the kettle-drum."
-- Ah!If it was all your money twenty times told, to the last brass farden!"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The kettle was of brass and shone like gold, so brightly was it polished.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That a proper quantity of this powder rammed into a hollow tube of brass or iron, according to its bigness, would drive a ball of iron or lead, with such violence and speed, as nothing was able to sus-tain its force.
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：
-- She went indoors to Clifford's study, where the old brass kettle was simmering on the tray.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He touched the worsted muffling of her hand that was nothing; if his mother had been sheathed in brass there would have been no new barrier between them and followed the old man and woman down-stairs.
-- When his knock at the bright brass knocker of obsolete shape brought a woman-servant to the door, those faded scents in truth saluted him like wintry breath that had a faint remembrance in it of the bygone spring.
-- When he had shown all his spoils, Mr Meagles took them into his own snug room overlooking the lawn, which was fitted up in part like a dressing-room and in part like an office, and in which, upon a kind of counter-desk, were a pair of brass scales for weighing gold, and a scoop for shovelling out money.
-- She now underwent a violent twitch, calculated to produce a startling effect on the nerves of the uninitiated, and with the deadliest animosity observed:'You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it.
-- When he returned to the street, and had knocked at the bright brass knocker, he was informed that she had come, and was shown up-stairs to Flora's breakfast-room.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "As the Lakeman's bare head was just level with the planks, the Captain and his posse leaped the barricade, and rapidly drawing over the slide of the scuttle, planted their group of hands upon it, and loudly called for the steward to bring the heavy brass padlock belonging to the companionway.
-- At some old gable-roofed country houses you will see brass whales hung by the tail for knockers to the road-side door.
-- Imprimis, fifty feet high in his socks; then, chest modelled after the Thames Tunnel; then, legs with roots to 'em, to stay in one place; then, arms three feet through the wrist; no heart at all, brass forehead, and about a quarter of an acre of fine brains; and let me see shall I order eyes to see outwards?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, I think it rather pretty,' said the beadle, glancing proudly downwards at the large brass buttons which embellished his coat.
-- He was dressed in a smartly-cut snuff-coloured coat, with large brass buttons; an orange neckerchief; a coarse, staring, shawl-pattern waistcoat; and drab breeches.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took a fire-shovel and tongs, which I wanted extremely, as also two little brass kettles, a copper pot to make chocolate, and a gridiron; and with this cargo, and the dog, I came away, the tide beginning to make home again - and the same evening, about an hour within night, I reached the island again, weary and fatigued to the last degree.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Polished brass or nickel signs at the square stone entrances announced the firm and the nature of the business in rather neat and reserved terms.
-- It was ornamented by a small brass sign, and seemed to be the entrance to a vast hive of six or seven floors.
-- It was a clothing company, and more people were in evidence-- well-dressed men of forty and more, surrounded by brass railings.
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