diamond是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 金钢石， 钻石； 菱形，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, I sold the bonds, but I didn't take the seven thousand roubles to the office; I went straight to the English shop and chose a pair of earrings, with a diamond the size of a nut in each.
-- I liked you especially when you told us about the diamond earrings; but I liked you before that as well, though you have such a dark-clouded sort of face.
-- But I had a little diamond pin, and this I sold to a travelling pedlar; he gave me eight francs for it it was worth at least forty.
-- He had plump white hands, and wore a magnificent diamond ring on one finger.
-- His costume was the same as it had been in the morning, except for a new silk handkerchief round his neck, bright green and red, fastened with a huge diamond pin, and an enormous diamond ring on his dirty forefinger.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Daring bur-glaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellowtradesman whom he stopped in his character of 'the Captain,' gallantly shot him through the head and rode away; the mall was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, 'in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:' after which the mall was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the Lord May-or of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond cross-es from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the mus-keteers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If so, I can do it"; and then he rattled a whole bunch of valuable seals that hung to his watch, and he stuck his hand in the thick gold chain he wore around his neck nay!how all his fingers glittered with diamond rings; and then all were pure gems.
-- It was dressed entirely in black, and of the very finest cloth; it had patent leather boots, and a hat that could be folded together, so that it was bare crown and brim; not to speak of what we already know it had seals, gold neck-chain, and diamond rings; yes, the shadow was well-dressed, and it was just that which made it quite a man.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was in her the glow of the real diamond among glass imitations.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If I was ever to be a lady, I'd give him a sky-blue coatwith diamond buttons, nankeen trousers, a red velvet waistcoat, acocked hat, a large gold watch, a silver pipe, and a box of money.'
-- A glorious old room it was, with more oakbeams, and diamond panes; and the broad balustrade going all theway up to it.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A sister's heart is a diamond for purity, a deep sea of tenderness!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he went on, taking my watch out of my pocket, and turning towards him a ring on my finger, while I recoiled from his touch as if he had been a snake, "a gold 'un and a beauty: that's a gentleman's, I hope!A diamond all set round with rubies; that's a gentleman's, I hope!Look at your linen; fine and beautiful!Look at your clothes; better ain't to be got!And your books too," turning his eyes round the room, "mounting up, on their shelves, by hundreds!And you read 'em; don't you?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Very clever were some of their productions, pasteboard guitars, antique lamps made of old-fashioned butter boats covered with silver paper, gorgeous robes of old cotton, glittering with tin spangles from a pickle factory, and armor covered with the same useful diamond shaped bits left inn sheets when the lids of preserve pots were cut out.
-- They had a charming time, for THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE DIAMOND LAKE was as brilliant and wonderful as heart could wish.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, though in the clear air of day, suspended against a blue-veined neck, the pure-watered diamond drop will healthful glow; yet, when the cunning jeweller would show you the diamond in its most impressive lustre, he lays it against a gloomy ground, and then lights it up, not by the sun, but by some unnatural gases.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The merry old gentleman, placing a snuff-box in one pocket of his trousers, a note-case in the other, and a watch in his waistcoat pocket, with a guard-chain round his neck, and sticking a mock diamond pin in his shirt: buttoned his coat tight round him, and putting his spectacle-case and handkerchief in his pockets, trotted up and down the room with a stick, in imitation of the manner in which old gentlemen walk about the streets any hour in the day.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Silver!A diamond box would neither absorb much of the light nor reflect much from the general surface, but just here and there where the surfaces were favourable the light would be reflected and refracted, so that you would get a brilliant appearance of flashing reflections and translucencies a sort of skeleton of light.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the most part he lounged about, dressed in excellent tailored suits of imported goods, a solitaire ring, a fine blue diamond in his tie, a striking vest of some new pattern, and a watch-chain of solid gold, which held a charm of rich design, and a watch of the latest make and engraving.
-- She had some jewelry--a diamond ring and pin and several other pieces.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No, it shall be of gold and silver with diamond buttons.
-- "First of all," answered the Marionette, "I want to buy a fine new coat for my father, a coat of gold and silver with diamond buttons; after that, I'll buy an A-B-C book for myself."
-- He wore a jaunty coat of chocolate-colored velvet, with diamond buttons, and with two huge pockets which were always filled with bones, dropped there at dinner by his loving mistress.
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