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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Certain matters, however, in which old instinct was at war with Moreau's convenience, were in a less stable condi-tion.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There shall be no war be-tween any of us in the Pack.
-- There is an old war between this lame tiger and my-self a very old war, and I have won.'
-- This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bath-rooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment.
-- He could fluff up his tail till it looked like a bottle brush, and his war cry as he scuttled through the long grass was: 'Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!'
-- But he remembered Nag and Nagaina, and though it was very pleasant to be patted and petted by Teddy's mother, and to sit on Teddy's shoulder, his eyes would get red from time to time, and he would go off into his long war cry of 'Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!'
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：
-- They mutually exhorted each other to be of use in the event of the chances of war throwing either of the parties into the hands of his enemies.
-- It was in this scene of strife and bloodshed that the inci-dents we shall attempt to relate occurred, during the third year of the war which England and France last waged for the possession of a country that neither was destined to re-tain.
-- Though he may understand it, he affects, like most of his people, to be ignorant of the English; and least of all will he condescend to speak it, now that the war de-mands the utmost exercise of his dignity.
-- 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?'
-- He had seated himself more within the circle of light, where the frequent, uneasy glances of his guests were better enabled to separate the natural expres-sion of his face from the artificial terrors of the war paint.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Certain it is, his advances were signals for rival can-didates to retire, who felt no inclination to cross a lion in his amours; insomuch, that when his horse was seen tied to Van Tassel's paling, on a Sunday night, a sure sign that his master was courting, or, as it is termed, ' sparking,' within, all other suitors passed by in despair, and carried the war into other quarters.
-- There were several more that had been equally great in the field, not one of whom but was persuaded that he had a considerable hand in bringing the war to a happy termination.
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 true I knew him more intimately than most: I met him first before ever he became a painter, and I saw him not infrequently during the difficult years he spent in Paris; but I do not suppose I should ever have set down my recollections if the hazards of the war had not taken me to Tahiti.
-- Now the war has come, bringing with it a new attitude.
-- Of their elders some, by imitating the antics of youth, strive to persuade themselves that their day is not yet over; they shout with the lustiest, but the war cry sounds hollow in their mouth; they are like poor wantons attempting with pencil, paint and powder, with shrill gaiety, to recover the illusion of their spring.
-- Then, imagine to yourself, just before the war my brother wrote to me from Paris, and said: 'Do you know anything about an English painter who lived in Tahiti?
-- I ran across him in the street and congratulated him on the knighthood with which his eminent services during the war had been rewarded.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were prisoners of war whose boldness had induced them to escape in this extraordinary manner.
-- But Heaven had reserved them for a strange destiny, and after having, on the 20th of March, escaped from Richmond, besieged by the troops of General Ulysses Grant, they found themselves seven thousand miles from the capital of Virginia, which was the principal stronghold of the South, during the terrible War of Secession.
-- This was no other than Gideon Spilen, a reporter for the New York Herald, who had been ordered to follow the changes of the war in the midst of the Northern armies.
-- And that evening, before sleeping, the new colonists talked of their absent country; they spoke of the terrible war which stained it with blood; they could not doubt that the South would soon be subdued, and that the cause of the North, the cause of justice, would triumph, thanks to Grant, thanks to Lincoln!
-- Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race unhappily."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dwarf's lodging on Tower hill comprised, besides the needful accommodation for himself and Mrs Quilp, a small sleeping-closet for that lady's mother, who resided with the couple and waged perpetual war with Daniel; of whom, notwithstanding, she stood in no slight dread.
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