pattern是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 模式， 式样； 图案， 图样v. 仿制， 模仿，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the son of Peleus brought in a spear and a caul-dron that had never been on the fire; it was worth an ox, and was chased with a pattern of flowers; and those that throw the javelin stood up to wit the son of Atreus, king of men Agamemnon, and Meriones, stalwart squire of Idomeneus.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before the barn door strutted the gallant cock, that pattern of a husband, a war-rior and a fine gentleman, clapping his burnished wings and crowing in the pride and gladness of his heart, some-times tearing up the earth with his feet, and then generously calling his ever-hungry family of wives and children to en-joy the rich morsel which he had discovered.
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：
-- The green curtains with their peacock design, hung in straight lines, and the green carpet, in the pattern of which pale rabbits frolicked among leafy trees, suggested the influence of William Morris.
-- That must be the story of innumerable couples, and the pattern of life it offers has a homely grace.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having satisfied himself that they were of the same pattern and materials, he came to a stop apparently absorbed in meditation.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had no convenient cicerone in the pattern of the Utopian books.
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 bulkheads, all painted in clear white and beaded round with gilt, bore a pattern of dirty hands.
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：
-- She was a strange figure in the class-room, wearing a large, old cloak of greenish cloth, on which was a raised pattern of dull gold.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The expressionless uniform twenty houses, all to be knocked at and rung at in the same form, all approachable by the same dull steps, all fended off by the same pattern of railing, all with the same impracticable fire-escapes, the same inconvenient fixtures in their heads, and everything without exception to be taken at a high valuation who has not dined with these?
-- New zig-zags sprung into the cruel pattern sometimes, when she saw it through a burst of tears; but beautified or hardened still, always over it and under it and through it, she was fain to look in her solitude, seeing everything with that ineffaceable brand.
-- After yielding herself up, in this pattern manner, to sisterly advice and the force of circumstances, Fanny became quite benignant: as one who had laid her own inclinations at the feet of her dearest friend, and felt a glow of conscience in having made the sacrifice.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After many serious discussions with Meg and Jo, the pattern was chosen, the materials bought, and the slippers begun.
-- Mrs. March smiled, as if well pleased, and Jo clapped her hands, exclaiming, with a laugh, 'You are almost equal to Caroline Percy, who was a pattern of prudence!Tell on, Meg.
-- When she got home, she tried to assuage the pangs of re-morse by spreading forth the lovely silk, but it looked less silvery now, didn't become her, after all, and the words 'fifty dollars' seemed stamped like a pattern down each breadth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He'll be a great man himself, and will make you one too, if you take pattern by him.--Is my handkerchief hanging out of my pocket, my dear?'
-- Oliver lay awake for some time, counting the little circles of light which the reflection of the rushlight-shade threw upon the ceiling; or tracing with his languid eyes the intricate pattern of the paper on the wall.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But unfortunately in bestowing these embraces, a pin in her ladyship's head dress slightly scratching the child's neck, produced from this pattern of gentleness such violent screams, as could hardly be outdone by any creature professedly noisy.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His suit was of a striped and crossed pattern of brown wool, new at that time, but since become familiar as a business suit.
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