wire是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 金属线， 电线； 电报， 电信v. 发电报(给)，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 neck was long and slender, and round the thick rim there was still an end of wire hanging, though eaten away with rust.
-- But before starting he confided an important missive to a swifter agent than himself, and a few minutes afterward it flashed along the electric wire to London, to appear next day in the Times and Morning Chronicle in the following words: "For information respecting the fate of the three-mast vessel BRITANNIA, of Glasgow, Captain Grant, apply to Lord Glenarvan, Malcolm Castle, Luss, Dumbartonshire, Scotland."
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：
-- I have had a wire that he arrived at South-ampton this morning.
-- Let me have a report by wire at Baker Street before evening.
-- And now, Watson, it only remains for us to find out by wire the identity of the cabman, No.
-- Very good, we will send a second wire to the postmaster, Grimpen: 'Telegram to Mr. Barrymore to be delivered into his own hand.
-- If absent, please return wire to Sir Henry Baskerville, Northumberland Hotel.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He it must have been who cut the telegraph wire to Adderdean just beyond Higgins' cottage on the Adderdean road.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was easy to do, since the steamer stopped at Singapore, whence there is a telegraphic wire to Hong Kong.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I said you were a wonder in medic school, and maybe we'd get married when you finished your internship, and then when your wire came, they wanted to know why you were coming, and why it was you wired from Wisconsin, and what color necktie you had on when you were sending the wire, and I couldn't make 'em understand I didn't know.
-- The firm was controlled by a Live Wire who had once been a county superintendent of schools.
-- They prepared sera; the assistant in the Department of Bio-Physics was inventing electrified wire entanglements; Dr. Billy Smith, who six months before had been singing Studentenlieder at Luchow's, was working on poison gas to be used against all singers of Lieder; and to Martin was assigned the manufacture of lipovaccine, a suspension of finely ground typhoid and paratyphoid organisms in oil.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This room with windows in the rear wall was divided in two not by one, but by two wire nets which stretched from the ceiling to the floor.
-- "However, I will consult about it, and will wire you to-morrow."
-- In everything simplifying his life, he did not wire from the station of his arrival, but hired a two-horse country coach.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had a good mind to ask an old man, in wire spectacles,who was breaking stones upon the road, to lend me his hammerfor a little while, and let me begin to beat a path to Dora out ofgranite.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile Troy had added a few touches to his ordinary make-up for the character, the more effectually to disguise himself, and though he had felt faint qualms on first entering, the metamorphosis effected by judiciously "lining" his face with a wire rendered him safe from the eyes of Bathsheba and her men.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Eugene, in the blind desperation that drives a young man to plunge deeper and deeper into an abyss, as if he might hope to find a fortunate issue in its lowest depths, nodded in reply to the driver's signal, and stepped into the cab; a few stray petals of orange blossom and scraps of wire bore witness to its recent occupation by a wedding party.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We all three went to it, behind the wire blind, and presently saw the client go by in an accidental manner, with a murderous-looking tall individual, in a short suit of white linen and a paper cap.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This travelling-closet was an exact square, with a window in the middle of three of the squares, and each window was latticed with iron wire on the outside, to pre-vent accidents in long journeys.
-- That the weather be-ing calm, he rowed round me several times, observed my windows and wire lattices that defended them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the mothers could (and did) dance, upon the slack wire and the tight-rope, and perform rapid acts on bare-backed steeds; none of them were at all particular in respect of showing their legs; and one of them, alone in a Greek chariot, drove six in hand into every town they came to.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The battery and wire are carried in a leather bag, which the traveler fastens by a strap to his shoulders.
-- In order to make myself heard, I too must speak as it were along the side of the gallery, which would carry the sound of my voice just as the wire carries the electric fluid from point to point.
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