melody是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 旋律， 曲调； 悦耳的音乐，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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The effect of this soft melody on the still clear night was indescribable.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One wrote a whole poem about it, and said the bell sounded like the voice of a mother to a good dear child, and that no melody was sweeter than the tones of the bell.
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：
-- Chapter 3 'Before these fields were shorn and till'd, Full to the brim our rivers flow'd; The melody of waters fill'd The fresh and boundless wood; And torrents dash'd, and rivulets play'd, And fountains spouted in the shade.
-- 'There is melody in the fall of the cataract, and the rush-ing of many waters is sweet to the senses!'
-- After essaying its virtues repeatedly, in contrast with his own voice, and, satisfying himself that none of its melody was lost, he made a very serious demon-stration toward achieving a few stanzas of one of the longest effusions in the little volume so often mentioned.
-- Looking around, he beheld the shaggy monster seated on end in a shadow of the cavern, where, while his restless body swung in the uneasy manner of the animal, it repeated, in a sort of low growl, sounds, if not words, which bore some slight re-semblance to the melody of the singer.
-- The beast still contin- ued its rolling, and apparently untiring movements, though its ludicrous attempt to imitate the melody of David ceased the instant the latter abandoned the field.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When there was news of a "big game on," the county sports dropped in silently and went to work--the sewing-machine agent from Leopolis, the undertaker from Vanderheide's Grove, the bootlegger from St. Luke, the red fat man from Melody who had no known profession.
-- "Still you'll readily see how one of these efforts of mine, just by having a good laugh and a punch and some melody in it, does gild the pill and make careless folks stop spitting on the sidewalks, and get out into God's great outdoors and get their lungs packed full of ozone and lead a real hairy- chested he-life.
-- Her L's were a melody of summer rivers, her R's the trill of birds in the brake.
-- Each day from five to seven he was tilted against the bar, never drunk, never altogether sober, always full of melody and kindliness; the one man who did not long for Home, because outside the Ice House he remembered no home.
-- Upper berth or lower was the same to him, and till Martin was hardened to cold and fatigue, Terry did more than his share of wood-cutting and supply-toting, and with great melody and skill he washed their clothes.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'On the voyage, I shall endeavour,' said Mr. Micawber,'occasionally to spin them a yarn; and the melody of my sonWilkins will, I trust, be acceptable at the galley-fire.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 7Fred,' said Mr Swiveller, 'remember the once popular melody of Begone dull care; fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.'
-- She's like the red red rose that's newly sprung in June there's no denying that she's also like a melody that's sweetly played in tune.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oak then struck up "Jockey to the Fair," and played that sparkling melody three times through, accenting the notes in the third round in a most artistic and lively manner by bending his body in small jerks and tapping with his foot to beat time.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She would have been a strikingly beautiful woman had there been any glow in her eyes, any responsive warmth inher smile or any spontaneity in her voice that fell with gentle melody on the ears of her family and her servants.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When that place was reached, the melody repeated itself.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sweet voices and rich melody filled the air, and so with mirth and music the masquerade went on.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Fagin stepped softly in, the professional gentleman, running over the keys by way of prelude, occasioned a general cry of order for a song; which having subsided, a young lady proceeded to entertain the company with a ballad in four verses, between each of which the accompanyist played the melody all through, as loud as he could.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The aroused manager whistled merrily for a good four miles to his office an old melody that he had not recalled for fifteen years.
-- It hummed in her ears as the melody of an old song.
-- "She asks only in return," said Carrie, scarcely hearing the small, scheduled reply of her lover, and putting herself even more in harmony with the plaintive melody now issuing from the orchestra, "that when you look upon her your eyes shall speak devotion; that when you address her your voice shall be gentle, loving, and kind; that you shall not despise her because she cannot understand all at once your vigorous thoughts and ambitious designs; for, when misfortune and evil have defeated your greatest purposes, her love remains to console you.
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