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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hog, hit by the electric ball, fell stone dead.
-- Just then a stone fell at our feet and cut short the harpooner's proposition.
-- Conseil and I were absorbed in the contemplation of our treasure, and I was promising myself to enrich the museum with it, when a stone unfortunately thrown by a native struck against, and broke, the precious object in Conseil's hand.
-- A stone held between his feet, cut in the shape of a sugar loaf, whilst a rope fastened him to his boat, helped him to descend more rapidly.
-- I caught a glimpse of pieces of stone covered with millions of zoophytes and masses of sea weed.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yellow celandines showed out from the hedge-bottoms, and in the cottage gardens of Willey Green, currant-bushes were breaking into leaf, and little flowers were coming white on the grey alyssum that hung over the stone walls.
-- The sisters passed in silence through the stone gateway and up the steps, on the red carpet, a policeman estimating their progress.
-- Just inside the gate of the school shrubbery, outside the churchyard, Ursula sat down for a moment on the low stone wall under the laurel bushes, to rest.
-- She glanced behind, and with a wild cry of laughter and challenge, veered, poised, and was gone beyond the grey stone buttress.
-- In another instant the bridegroom, bent forward as he ran, had caught the angle of the silent stone with his hand, and had swung himself out of sight, his supple, strong loins vanishing in pursuit.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did, though: I vociferated curses enough to annihilate any fiend in Christendom; and I got a stone and thrust it between his jaws, and tried with all my might to cram it down his throat.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little had been left besides the framework of the house, but in one corner there was a stone slab laid down by way of hearth and an old rusty iron basket to contain the fire.
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