war是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 战争(状态) ； 冲突vi. 作战，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：
-- "Yes, civil war between the Paraguayans and Buenos Ayriens," replied the Sergeant.
-- The Patagonian was either unaware of, or had forgotten that civil war was decimating the two parts of the republic—a war which ultimately required the intervention of Brazil.
-- There was no doubt the Sergeant was right in assigning war then as the cause of the forsaken appearance of the plains.
-- The elements were now no longer at war with the travelers, as on their journey across the Pampas—air and water seemed in league to help them forward.
-- He therefore quitted the deck immediately with his three companions, and rejoined the ladies, who were anxiously watching the DENOUEMENT of this war with the elements.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That is the script of the Russian War Office.
-- In the American War some of the most ad-vanced Liberals took sides with the planters on the score that the blacks were an inferior race to the whites, and that might was the right of the white race.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Son of Atreus,' said he, 'I deem that we should now turn roving home if we would escape destruction, for we are be-ing cut down by war and pestilence at once.
-- 'All who have not since perished must remember as though it were yesterday or the day before, how the ships of the Achaeans were detained in Aulis when we were on our way hither to make war on Priam and the Trojans.
-- Thus war became sweeter in their eyes even than returning home in their ships.
-- In his likeness Iris spoke, saying, 'Old man, you talk idly, as in time of peace, while war is at hand.
-- It is they that have brought about this terrible war with the Achaeans.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What wonder, then, that these Nantucketers, born on a beach, should take to the sea for a livelihood!They first caught crabs and quohogs in the sand; grown bolder, they waded out with nets for mackerel; more experienced, they pushed off in boats and captured cod; and at last, launching a navy of great ships on the sea, explored this watery world; put an incessant belt of circumnavigations round it; peeped in at Behring's Straits; and in all seasons and all oceans declared everlasting war with the mightiest animated mass that has survived the flood; most monstrous and most mountainous!That Himmalehan, salt-sea Mastodon, clothed with such portentousness of unconscious power, that his very panics are more to be dreaded than his most fearless and malicious assaults!
-- Now, as a vessel of war readily passes through the Dardanelles, hence a sperm whale could, by the same route, pass out of the Mediterranean into the Propontis.
-- Nor when expandingly lifted by your subject, can you fail to trace out great whales in the starry heavens, and boats in pursuit of them; as when long filled with thoughts of war the Eastern nations saw armies locked in battle among the clouds.
-- Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.
-- Here be it known, that though these wild fishermen do not, as a general thing, and according to the great military maxim, make the enemy defray the current expenses of the war (at least before realizing the proceeds of the voyage), yet now and then you find some of these Nantucketers who have a genuine relish for that particular part of the Sperm Whale designated by Stubb; comprising the tapering extremity of the body.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Bennet was restored to her usual querulous serenity; and, by the middle of June, Kitty was so much recovered as to be able to enter Meryton without tears; an event of such happy promise as to make Elizabeth hope that by the following Christmas she might be so tolerably reasonable as not to mention an officer above once a day, unless, by some cruel and malicious arrangement at the War Office, another regi-ment should be quartered in Meryton.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They think it no more a crime to kill a captive taken in war than we do to kill an ox; or to eat human flesh than we do to eat mutton.'
-- He said, 'No, they make brother with them;' that is, as I understood him, a truce; and then he added, 'They no eat mans but when make the war fight;' that is to say, they never eat any men but such as come to fight with them and are taken in battle.
-- who, as to me, were innocent, and whose barbarous customs were their own disaster, being in them a token, indeed, of God's having left them, with the other nations of that part of the world, to such stupidity, and to such inhuman courses, but did not call me to take upon me to be a judge of their actions, much less an executioner of His justice - that whenever He thought fit He would take the cause into His own hands, and by national vengeance punish them as a people for na-tional crimes, but that, in the meantime, it was none of my business - that it was true Friday might justify it, because he was a declared enemy and in a state of war with those very particular people, and it was lawful for him to attack them - but I could not say the same with regard to myself.
-- myself, generalissimo; Friday, my lieutenant-general; the captain and his two men, and the three prisoners of war whom we had trusted with arms.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In Carrie--as in how many of our worldlings do they not?-- instinct and reason, desire and understanding, were at war for the mastery.
-- What a revelation do you make to me now!What is it makes you continually war with your happiness?"
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