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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even thus did their tribes pour from ships and tents on to the plain of the Scamander, and the ground rang as brass under the feet of men and horses.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sons, in short square-skirted coats, with rows of stupendous brass buttons, and their hair generally queued in the fash-ion of the times, especially if they could procure an eelskin for the purpose, it being esteemed throughout the country as a potent nourisher and strengthener of the hair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It consisted of a brown body-coat with a great many brass buttons up the front and only one behind, a bright check neckerchief, a plaid waistcoat, soiled white trousers, and a very limp hat, worn with the wrong side foremost, to hide a hole in the brim.
-- This Brass was an attorney of no very good repute, from Bevis Marks in the city of London; he was a tall, meagre man, with a nose like a wen, a protruding forehead, retreating eyes, and hair of a deep red.
-- Mr Brass thought that if he did, the Grand Turk's feelings were by no means to be envied, but he said it was famous, and he had no doubt he felt very like that Potentate.
-- cried Brass faintly, as he again applied himself to the odious pipe.
-- Mr Brass encouraging this idea, as he would have encouraged any other emanating from the same source, the dwarf walked in to try the effect.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were also perhaps a dozen candles about, two in brass candlesticks upon the mantel and several in sconces, so that the room was brilliantly illuminated.
-- One of the candles on the mantel was blown out, and the little machine suddenly swung round, became indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps, as an eddy of faintly glittering brass and ivory; and it was gone vanished!Save for the lamp the table was bare.
-- There it is now, a little travel-worn, truly; and one of the ivory bars is cracked, and a brass rail bent; but the rest of it's sound enough.
-- I seemed to see a ghostly, indistinct figure sitting in a whirling mass of black and brass for a moment a figure so transparent that the bench behind with its sheets of drawings was absolutely distinct; but this phantasm vanished as I rubbed my eyes.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But then the fun would be trying to find the creature that had got my old name!That's just like the advertisements, you know, when people lose dogs "answers to the name of 'Dash:' had on a brass collar" just fancy calling everything you met "Alice," till one of them answered!Only they wouldn't answer at all, if they were wise.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All day he hung round the cove or upon the cliffs with a brass telescope; all evening he sat in a corner of the parlour next the fire and drank rum and water very strong.
-- The captain had risen earlier than usual and set out down the beach, his cutlass swinging under the broad skirts of the old blue coat, his brass telescope under his arm, his hat tilted back upon his head.
-- One of my last thoughts was of the captain, who had so often strode along the beach with his cocked hat, his sabre-cut cheek, and his old brass telescope.
-- 8 At the Sign of the Spy-glassHEN I had done breakfasting the squire gave me a note addressed to John Silver, at the sign of the Spy-glass, and told me I should easily find the place by following the line of the docks and keeping a bright lookout for a little tavern with a large brass telescope for sign.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pompous doormen in immense coats, shiny brass belts and buttons, waited in front of expensive salesrooms.
-- There were two lovely bedrooms, set with brass and white enamel beds, white ribbon-trimmed chairs and chiffoniers to match.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I told him I had an old slick counterfeit quarter that warn't no good because the brass showed through the sil-ver a little, and it wouldn't pass nohow, even if the brass didn't show, because it was so slick it felt greasy, and so that would tell on it every time.
-- We found a brass button in his stomach and a round ball, and lots of rubbage.
-- It didn't have an iron latch on the front door, nor a wooden one with a buckskin string, but a brass knob to turn, the same as houses in town.
-- They had big brass dog-irons that could hold up a saw- log.
-- His hands was long and thin, and every day of his life he put on a clean shirt and a full suit from head to foot made out of linen so white it hurt your eyes to look at it; and on Sundays he wore a blue tail-coat with brass buttons on it.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A new bridle of shining leather with buckles of polished brass was on his back; two white camellias were tied to his ears; ribbons and tassels of red silk adorned his mane, which was divided into many curls.
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