dent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 牙， 槽， 凹陷，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You might easily dent it with your thumb; it is of a hue between yellow and ash colour.
-- When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without oh, weariness!heaviness!Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command! when I think of all this; only half-suspected, not so keenly known to me before and how for forty years I have fed upon dry salted fare fit emblem of the dry nourishment of my soil! when the poorest landsman has had fresh fruit to his daily hand, and broken the world's fresh bread to my mouldy crusts away, whole oceans away, from that young girl-wife I wedded past fifty, and sailed for Cape Horn the next day, leaving but one dent in my marriage pillow wife?
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They don't think noth-ing of pulling a shot-tower up by the roots, and belting a Sunday-school superinten- dent over the head with it or any other man.'
-- I run the canoe into a deep dent in the bank that I knowed about; I had to part the willow branches to get in; and when I made fast nobody could a seen the canoe from the outside.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had been floating about all the morning, from gloomy St. Gingolf to sunny Montreux, with the Alps of Savoy on one side, Mont St. Bernard and the Dent du Midi on the other, pretty Vevay in the valley, and Lausanne upon the hill beyond, a cloudless blue sky over-head, and the bluer lake below, dotted with the picturesque boats that look like white-winged gulls.
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