curve是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 曲线; v. 弄弯, 成曲线，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He heard nothing but the swish of scythes, and saw before him Tit's upright figure mowing away, the crescent-shaped curve of the cut grass, the grass and flower heads slowly and rhythmically falling before the blade of his scythe, and ahead of him the end of the row, where would come the rest.
-- The driver knew the Shtcherbatskys' house, and drew up at the entrance with a curve of his arm and a "Wo!"
-- He knelt down, and laying his head in the curve of her arm, which burned him as with fire through the sleeve, he sobbed like a little child.
-- A handsome head waiter, with thick pomaded hair parted from the neck upwards, an evening coat, a broad white cambric shirt front, and a bunch of trinkets hanging above his rounded stomach, stood with his hands in the full curve of his pockets, looking contemptuously from under his eyelids while he gave some frigid reply to a gentleman who had stopped him.
-- She moved her white hands in a curve before her waist with extraordinary rapidity, as happens during moments of excitement; ideas and memories rushed into Darya Alexandrovna's head.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pearl had pointed out that his agreeable results in first phaging the whole of Carib village must be questioned, because it was possible that when he began, the curve of the disease had already passed its peak.
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：
-- And even the curve of his spine was expressive of the hor-rible insult he had received.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thechanges that were rung upon dots, which in such a position meantsuch a thing, and in such another position something else, entirelydifferent; the wonderful vagaries that were played by circles; theunaccountable consequences that resulted from marks like flies'legs; the tremendous effects of a curve in a wrong place; not onlytroubled my waking hours, but reappeared before me in my sleep.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Disputable, however, as might be the taste of such a termination, it was in itself a charming walk, and the view which closed it extremely pretty. The considerable slope, at nearly the foot of which the Abbey stood, gradu-ally acquired a steeper form beyond its grounds; and at half a mile distant was a bank of considerable abruptness and grandeur, well clothed with wood; and at the bottom of this bank, favourably placed and sheltered, rose the Abbey Mill Farm, with meadows in front, and the river making a close and handsome curve around it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hill was covered on its northern side by an ancient and decaying plantation of beeches, whose upper verge formed a line over the crest, fringing its arched curve against the sky, like a mane.
-- His weary face now began to be painted over with a rich orange glow, and the whole front of his smock-frock and gaiters was covered with a dancing shadow pattern of thorn-twigs the light reaching him through a leafless intervening hedge and the metallic curve of his sheep-crook shone silver-bright in the same abounding rays.
-- Somebody's some woman's hand had travelled softly over the paper bearing his name; her unrevealed eyes had watched every curve as she formed it; her brain had seen him in imagination the while.
-- Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am giving you my name like Ariadne's clue of thread to take with you into the labyrinth; make no unworthy use of it," she said, with a queenly glance and curve of her throat; "give it back to me unsullied.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they had rounded the curve of the dusty road that hid them from Tara, Brent drew his horse to a stop undera clump of dogwood.
-- Soon she was at the end of the driveway and out on the main road, but she didnot stop until she had rounded a curve that put a large clump of trees between her and the house.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He laid his hand on her shoulder, and softly, gently, it began to travel down the curve of her back, blindly, with a blind stroking motion, to the curve of her crouching loins.
-- And there his hand softly, softly, stroked the curve of her flank, in the blind instinctive caress.
-- She took it obediently, and he watched the full curve of her hips as she went up the first stairs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Society,' said Mrs Merdle, with another curve of her little finger, 'is so difficult to explain to young persons (indeed is so difficult to explain to most persons), that I am glad to hear that.
-- Mrs General, with a graceful curve of acknowledgment, descended into the chair which Mr Dorrit offered.
-- said Mr Flintwinch at length, screwing himself a curve or two in the direction of the window-seat, and rubbing the palms of his hands on his coat-tail as if he were preparing them to do something: 'Whatever has to be said among us had better be begun to be said without more loss of time. So, Affery, my woman, take yourself away!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was quickly lowered to Ahab, who at once comprehending it all, slid his solitary thigh into the curve of the hook (it was like sitting in the fluke of an anchor, or the crotch of an apple tree), and then giving the word, held himself fast, and at the same time also helped to hoist his own weight, by pulling hand-over-hand upon one of the running parts of the tackle.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was brought out of this feeling by the sudden appearance of a curve ahead, which he had not expected.
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