pit是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 坑; 凹部; 修理站，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：
-- Come on!We'll see it through if all the fiends of the pit were loose upon the moor.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Diomed then threw, and Pallas Minerva drove the spear into the pit of Mars's stomach where his under-girdle went round him.
-- If I see anyone acting apart and helping either Trojans or Danaans, he shall be beaten inordinately ere he come back again to Olympus; or I will hurl him down into dark Tartarus far into the deepest pit under the earth, where the gates are iron and the floor bronze, as far beneath Hades as heaven is high above the earth, that you may learn how much the mightiest I am among you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Captivated with his own ingenuity, and confident in the strength of his position, which he had taken up after the method of those hardy individuals who open the pit and gallery doors of theatres on crowded nights, Mr Swiveller rained down such a shower of blows, that the noise of the bell was drowned; and the small servant, who lingered on the stairs below, ready to fly at a moment's notice, was obliged to hold her ears lest she should be rendered deaf for life.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before, I had felt as a man might feel who had fallen into a pit: my concern was with the pit and how to get out of it.
-- As you went down the length, the ground came up against these windows, until at last there was a pit like the 'area' of a London house before each, and only a narrow line of daylight at the top.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The buccaneers, with oaths and cries, began to leap, one after another, into the pit and to dig with their fingers, throwing the boards aside as they did so.
-- Well, there we stood, two on one side, five on the other, the pit between us, and nobody screwed up high enough to offer the first blow.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the rest of time she was established on the sand, built over a chasm, and, in spite of all her vanity and securities, any common maid-servant of positive, robust temper could fling her down this bottomless pit of insufficiency, by the slightest movement of jeering or contempt.
-- This was the pit furthest in the country, near the woods.
-- Another night was coming on, for another night he was to be suspended in chain of physical life, over the bottomless pit of nothingness.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, if you hear of me being discovered dead in a bog or a pit full of snow, your conscience won't whisper that it is partly your fault?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Be-ing all met, and the captain with me, I caused the men to be brought before me, and I told them I had got a full account of their villainous behaviour to the captain, and how they had run away with the ship, and were preparing to commit further robberies, but that Providence had ensnared them in their own ways, and that they were fallen into the pit which they had dug for others.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, as night came on, a queer, empty feeling at the pit of his stomach reminded the Marionette that he had eaten nothing as yet.
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