canvas是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 粗帆布, 油画布，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：
-- A mere shred of canvas though it was, it was enough to drive the DUNCAN forward with inconceivable rapidity to the northeast, of course in the same direction as the hurricane.
-- They had not to wait long for the same night the hurricane had ceased entirely, and there was only a manageable breeze from the S. W. Preparations for sailing were instantly commenced, and at four o'clock in the morning the crew lifted the anchors, and got under way with fresh canvas outspread, and a wind blowing right for the Australian shores.
-- But in spite of this additional canvas the brig made very little way.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then the whole tumultuous rush has passed and the Iping street with its gauds and flags is deserted save for the still raging unseen, and littered with cocoanuts, overthrown canvas screens, and the scattered stock in trade of a sweetstuff stall.
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：
-- It was during these moments of deep silence that the canvas which concealed the entrance to a spacious mar- quee in the French encampment was shoved aside, and a man issued from beneath the drapery into the open air.
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：
-- He had never been so poor that he could not buy canvas and paint, and really he needed nothing else.
-- I had the feeling that he worked on a canvas with all the force of his violent personality, oblivious of everything in his effort to get what he saw with the mind's eye; and then, having finished, not the picture perhaps, for I had an idea that he seldom brought anything to completion, but the passion that fired him, he lost all care for it.
-- Suddenly he caught sight of a canvas with its face to the wall.
-- In one corner of the room was the bed, and in the middle was an easel with the canvas upon it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither did the place present any extraordinary aspect of life or activity, as its only human occupant was an amphibious boy in a canvas suit, whose sole change of occupation was from sitting on the head of a pile and throwing stones into the mud when the tide was out, to standing with his hands in his pockets gazing listlessly on the motion and on the bustle of the river at high-water.
-- Instead of speaking, however, she sat looking at the child for a long time in silence, and then getting up, brought out from a corner a large roll of canvas about a yard in width, which she laid upon the floor and spread open with her foot until it nearly reached from one end of the caravan to the other.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My mother pulled it up with impatience, and there lay before us, the last things in the chest, a bundle tied up in oilcloth, and looking like papers, and a canvas bag that gave forth, at a touch, the jingle of gold.
-- He was clothed with tatters of old ship's canvas and old sea-cloth, and this extraordinary patchwork was all held together by a system of the most various and incongruous fastenings, brass buttons, bits of stick, and loops of tarry gaskin.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We borrowed a wheelbarrow, and embarking our things, including my own poor carpet-bag, and Queequeg's canvas sack and hammock, away we went down to "the Moss," the little Nantucket packet schooner moored at the wharf.
-- After their departure, taking place in inverted order to their arrival, the canvas cloth was cleared, or rather was restored to some hurried order by the pallid steward.
-- When the painted canvas cover is clapped on the American line-tub, the boat looks as if it were pulling off with a prodigious great wedding-cake to present to the whales.
-- As the line passed round and round the loggerhead; so also, just before reaching that point, it blisteringly passed through and through both of Stubb's hands, from which the hand-cloths, or squares of quilted canvas sometimes worn at these times, had accidentally dropped.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He warn't one of the family, at that time; and one night he was robbed of three hundred and twenty-seven guineas in a canvas bag, that was stole out of his bedroom in the dead of night, by a tall man with a black patch over his eye, who had concealed himself under the bed, and after committing the robbery, jumped slap out of window: which was only a story high.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every idea that had been brought forward by the house-keeper was favourable to his character, and as she stood before the canvas on which he was represented, and fixed his eyes upon herself, she thought of his regard with a deep-er sentiment of gratitude than it had ever raised before; she remembered its warmth, and softened its impropriety of ex-pression.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We crowded also as much canvas as our yards would spread, or our masts carry, to get clear; but finding the pirate gained upon us, and would certain-ly come up with us in a few hours, we prepared to fight; our ship having twelve guns, and the rogue eighteen.
-- In a word, I brought away all the sails, first and last; only that I was fain to cut them in piec-es, and bring as much at a time as I could, for they were no more useful to be sails, but as mere canvas only.
-- This was a most difficult thing even to think on, for to be sure I had nothing like the necessary thing to make it - I mean fine thin canvas or stuff to searce the meal through.
-- Accordingly, we went on board, took the arms which were left on board out of her, and whatever else we found there - which was a bottle of brandy, and another of rum, a few biscuit-cakes, a horn of powder, and a great lump of sugar in a piece of canvas (the sugar was five or six pounds): all which was very welcome to me, especially the brandy and sugar, of which I had had none left for many years.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At a little pond near by some cleanly dressed children were sailing white canvas boats.
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