tower是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 塔v. 高耸，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge out of a Gothic window in the wall, became invisible, and struck the hours and quarters in the clouds, with tremulous vibrations af-terwards as if its teeth were chattering in its frozen head up there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'She had laid her head upon my shoulder, that night when I was summoned out she had a fear of my going, though 62 A tale of two citiesI had none and when I was brought to the North Tower they found these upon my sleeve.
-- 'To the eye it is fair enough, here; but seen in its integrity, under the sky, and by the daylight, it is a crumbling tower of waste, mismanagement, extortion, debt, mortgage, oppres-sion, hunger, nakedness, and suffering.'
-- Crouching down again in a cor-ner there, and looking in, he made out the three fishermen creeping through some rank grass!and all the gravestones in the churchyard it was a large churchyard that they were in looking on like ghosts in white, while the church tower itself looked on like the ghost of a monstrous giant.
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：
-- The morn now came; and as soon as the sun appeared, the whole town and the king's palace crumbled together, and one tower after the other; and at last only a single one remained stand-ing where the castle had been before,* and the town was so small and poor, and the school boys came along with their books under their arms, and said, '2000 inhabitants!'
-- One solitary tower only, and some remains of a wall, show where the cas-tle once stood.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lofty tower of its City Hall overlooked the whole panorama of the streets and avenues, which cut each other at right-angles, and in the midst of which appeared pleasant, verdant squares, while beyond appeared the Chinese quarter, seemingly imported from the Celestial Empire in a toy-box.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now he pondered, "Like to see that tower every day--clouds and storms behind it and everything--so sort of satisfying."
-- He had, to the north, not the Woolworth Tower alone but the Singer Building, the arrogant magnificence of the City Investing Building.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here we see resolution in the first stage, but resolution of a special kind: he resolved to do it like jumping over a precipice or from a bell tower and his legs shook as he went to the crime.
-- A high tower stood up on the left.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the pony-chaise stopped at the door, and my eyes wereintent upon the house, I saw a cadaverous face appear at a smallwindow on the ground floor (in a little round tower that formedone side of the house), and quickly disappear.
-- My stool was such a tower ofobservation, that as I watched him reading on again, after thisrapturous exclamation, and following up the lines with hisforefinger, I observed that his nostrils, which were thin andpointed, with sharp dints in them, had a singular and mostuncomfortable way of expanding and contracting themselves; that 223they seemed to twinkle instead of his eyes, which hardly evertwinkled at all.
-- We varied the legal characterof these proceedings by going to see some perspiring waxwork, inFleet Street (melted, I should hope, these twenty years); and byvisiting Miss Linwood's Exhibition, which I remember as amausoleum of needle-work, favourable to self-examination andrepentance; and by inspecting the Tower of London; and going tothe top of St. Paul's.
-- 723CHAPTER LVTempestI NOW approach an event in my life, so indelible, so awful, sobound by an infinite variety of ties to all that has preceded it, inthese pages, that, from the beginning of my narrative, I have seen itgrowing larger and larger as I advanced, like a great tower in aplain, and throwing its fore-cast shadow even on the incidents ofmy childish days.
-- There was a dark gloom in my solitary chamber, when I at lengthreturned to it; but I was tired now, and, getting into bed again, fell-off a tower and down a precipice- into the depths of sleep.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the interior face of the west wall of the tower projected a little canopy with a quarter-jack and small bell beneath it, the automaton being driven by the same clock machinery that struck the large bell in the tower.
-- Between the tower and the church was a close screen, the door of which was kept shut during services, hiding this grotesque clockwork from sight.
-- Then followed the dull and remote resonance of the twelve heavy strokes in the tower above.
-- "The reason of that is," she said eagerly, "that he goes in privately by the old tower door, just when the service commences, and sits at the back of the gallery.
-- In passing the tower he thought of what she had said about the sergeant's virtuous habit of entering the church unperceived at the beginning of service.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul's towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Tarleton rolled her red-brown eyes and sucked in her tower lip in burlesqued appreciation, and the girlscried, "Ma, stop making, eyes or well tell Pa!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So I changed my excuse into an acceptance,--the few words I had uttered, serving for the beginning of either,--and we went along Cheapside and slanted off to Little Britain, while the lights were springing up brilliantly in the shop windows, and the street lamp-lighters, scarcely finding ground enough to plant their ladders on in the midst of the afternoon's bustle, were skipping up and down and running in and out, opening more red eyes in the gathering fog than my rushlight tower at the Hummums had opened white eyes in the ghostly wall.
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