butt是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 大酒桶， 桶，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Throwing aside my cigarette, I closed my hand upon the butt of my revolver and, walking swiftly up to the door, I looked in.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gania also was often made the butt of the jester's sarcasms, who used this meth-od of keeping in Nastasia Philipovna's good graces.
-- He is a target for all the world, the butt of any fool who chooses to kick him.
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：
-- cried Hawkeye, once more elevating the butt of the long and fatal rifle; 'a finishing blow from a man without a cross will never tell against his honor, nor rob him of his right to the scalp.'
-- 'Now let it be proved, in the face of this tribe of Dela-wares, which is the better man,' cried the scout, tapping the butt of his piece with that finger which had pulled so many fatal triggers.
-- 'You are a young man, major,' said the scout, dropping the butt of 'killdeer' to the earth, and leaning on the bar-rel, a little fatigued with his previous industry; 'and it may be your gift to lead armies, at some future day, ag'in these imps, the Mingoes.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If Pa and you would tend to things instead of standing around fussing, I wouldn't have to butt in.
-- Hesselink gloated and the village roared and Martin was the butt of the land.
-- And the amount of good you can do!Why, I got across more Health Instruction and ideas about the value of the lab in that three-quarters of an hour than-- I don't care for being a big gun but it's fine to have people where they have to listen to what you've got to say and can't butt in, way they did in Wheatsylvania.
-- "Doc, I don't want to butt in on your department--my specialty is never butting in--but it certainly strikes me that after being trained by a seventy-horse-power booster like Pickerbaugh, you ought to know that it's all damn' foolishness to spend so much time in the laboratory, when you can hire an A1 laboratory fellow for thirty bucks a week.
-- "Say, Slim," Terry blurted, "just wanted to butt in and suggest, now for St. Gottlieb's sake keep your phage notes complete and up- to-date, and keep 'em in ink!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would have been strange if the careless profligate, who was the butt of both, had been harassed by any such consideration; for his high opinion of his own merits and deserts rendered the project rather a laudable one than otherwise; and if he had been visited by so unwonted a guest as reflection, he would being a brute only in the gratification of his appetites have soothed his conscience with the plea that he did not mean to beat or kill his wife, and would therefore, after all said and done, be a very tolerable, average husband.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he thought of the previous evening, spent at the Korchagins, a wealthy and influential family, whose daughter, rumor had it, he was to marry, he sighed, and throwing away the butt of his cigarette, he was on the point of taking another from the silver cigarette holder, but changed his mind.
-- Maslenikoff said, frowning as he recalled how Fanarin, examining him as a witness the year before, in the most polite manner made him the butt of ridicule.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, as in a school, as in the world itself, there was among the eighteen men and women who met round the dinner table a poor creature, despised by all the others, condemned to be the butt of all their jokes.
-- As for the rest, the current of life in Paris daily awaited them, and swept them away with it; so soon as they left the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve, they forgot the existence of the old man, their butt at dinner.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the last of the soldiers were passing, a small figure in the rear rank, his rifle butt dragging the ground, wavered,stopped and stared after the others with a dirty face so dulled by fatigue he looked like a sleepwalker.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the Nautilus men gave me a simple gun, the butt end of which, made of steel, hollow in the centre, was rather large.
-- A box of projectiles in a groove in the thickness of the butt end contained about twenty of these electric balls, which, by means of a spring, were forced into the barrel of the gun.
-- Captain Nemo pointed out the hideous crustacean, which a blow from the butt end of the gun knocked over, and I saw the horrible claws of the monster writhe in terrible convulsions.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Unless I butt one of them into an appointed corner, and you butt the other,' said Ferdinand, 'it will not come off after all.'
-- 'I'll butt Merdle, if you like; but not my lord.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As it slipped from my hand, I had to butt in the dark with my head I could hear the Morlock's skull ring to recover it.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No drownded him in a butt of mamsey, like a cat.
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