stone是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 石， 石头； 岩石， 矿石； (水果的) 核、 子，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She used to sit on a stone near, and wait there almost motionless all day, till the herd went home.
-- I ad-mit, that among the many silly and thoughtless actions of my life, the memory of one comes prominently forward and reminds me that it lay long like a stone on my heart.
-- The place was dark and gloomy-looking; the walls of the stone staircase were painted a dull red.
-- As is often the case in Petersburg houses, it was narrow and very dark, and turned around a massive stone column.
-- Not knowing that it was a fit, and seeing his victim disappear head foremost into the darkness, hearing his head strike the stone steps below with a crash, Rogojin rushed downstairs, skirting the body, and flung himself headlong out of the hotel, like a raving madman.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their skins are not stone nor iron that when hit them you do them no harm.
-- Then fate fell upon Diores, son of Amarynceus, for he was struck by a jagged stone near the ancle of his right leg.
-- The stone crushed this joint, and broke both the sinews, while its jagged edges tore away all the flesh.
-- He hit him with a stone upon the elbow, and the reins, enriched with white ivory, fell from his hands into the dust.
-- Opposite these, on the other side the courtyard, there were twelve upper rooms also of hewn stone for Priam's daugh-ters, built near one another, where his sons-in-law slept with their wives.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Now," said the Voice, as a third stone curved upward and hung in the air above the tramp.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I followed the llama up the beach, and was overtaken by Montgomery, who asked me not to enter the stone enclo- sure.
-- The stone came out of the sling of the handkerchief as I did so.
-- To sat-isfy myself against the subtlest trickery, I discharged one at a round lump of lava, and had the satisfaction of seeing the stone pulverised and the beach splashed with lead.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You could still trace the stone causeways that led up to the ruined gates where the last splinters of wood hung to the worn, rusted hinges.
-- From the palace you could see the rows and rows of roofless houses that made up the city looking like empty honeycombs filled with blackness; the shapeless block of stone that had been an idol in the square where four roads met; the pits and dimples at street corners where the public wells once stood, and the shattered domes of temples with wild figs sprouting on their sides.
-- Kaa had only just worked his way over the west wall, landing with a wrench that dislodged a coping stone into the ditch.
-- They clung around the necks of the big stone idols and shrieked as they skipped along the battlements, while Mowgli, danc-ing in the summerhouse, put his eye to the screenwork and hooted owl-fashion between his front teeth, to show his de-rision and contempt.
-- 'Come back, or we will stone thee.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do they tell the young warriors that the pale faces met the red men, painted for war and armed with the stone hatchet and wooden gun?'
-- Here they secured themselves, as well as circumstances would permit, among the shrubs and fragments of stone that were scattered about the place.
-- 'Is he a stone that goes to the bottom, or does the scalp burn his head?'
-- 'That's a trail that nothing but a nose can follow,' said the satisfied scout, looking back along their difficult way; 'grass is a treacherous carpet for a flying party to tread on, but wood and stone take no print from a moccasin.
-- Hither the Hurons had brought most of their valuables, especially those which more particularly per-tained to the nation; and hither, as it now appeared, the sick woman, who was believed to be the victim of supernatu-ral power, had been transported also, under an impression that her tormentor would find more difficulty in making his assaults through walls of stone than through the leafy cov-erings of the lodges.
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