sketch是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 草图, 素描; 短剧; 简述; v. 草拟，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：
-- During the short passage from the isle to the yacht, his children had given him a brief sketch of the DUNCAN'S history.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The princess gave us a sketch of Alexey Alexandrovitch," said the ambassador's wife with a smile, as she sat down at the table.
-- he said to himself, sat down to the table, and, opening a portfolio, he set to work at once with peculiar fervor at a sketch he had begun.
-- He was making a sketch for the figure of a man in a violent rage.
-- A sketch had been made before, but he was dissatisfied with it.
-- The paper with the discarded sketch on it was found, but it was dirty, and spotted with candle-grease.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Manson on Tropical Diseases mentions Sondelius's admirable method of killing rats with hydrocyanic acid gas, and The Sketch once mentioned his atrocious system in baccarat.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here is my sketch of the fourth, who was a baby.
-- Then here is my last,' unclosing a pretty sketch of a gentleman in small size, whole-length 'my last and my best my brother, Mr. John Knightley.
-- The sitting was altogether very satisfactory; she was quite enough pleased with the first day's sketch to wish to go on.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Description of Farmer Oak An IncidentWhen Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.
-- That matters should continue pleasant Maryann spoke, who, what with her brown complexion, and the working wrapper of rusty linsey, had at present the mellow hue of an old sketch in oils notably some of Nicholas Poussin's: "Do anybody know of a crooked man, or a lame, or any second-hand fellow at all that would do for poor me?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The forge was shut up for the day, and Joe inscribed in chalk upon the door (as it was his custom to do on the very rare occasions when he was not at work) the monosyllable HOUT, accompanied by a sketch of an arrow supposed to be flying in the direction he had taken.
-- But there was recompense in the joy with which Herbert would come home of a night and tell me of these changes, little imagining that he told me no news, and would sketch airy pictures of himself conducting Clara Barley to the land of the Arabian Nights, and of me going out to join them (with a caravan of camels, I believe), and of our all going up the Nile and seeing wonders.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lion and I being determined not to waste anything of our weekly visit, turned out early, and came over from Kingston, my present headquarters, where I am making a sketch or two.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As young readers like to know 'how people look', we will take this moment to give them a little sketch of the four sisters, who sat knitting away in the twilight, while the December snow fell quietly without, and the fire crackled cheerfully within.
-- Miss Kate took out her sketch again, and Margaret watched her, while Mr. Brooke lay on the grass with a book, which he did not read.
-- Miss Kate put up her glass, and, having taken a survey of the little tableau before her, shut her sketch book, say-ing with condescension, 'You've a nice accent and in time will be a clever reader.
-- To my dear sister Margaret, I give my turkquoise ring (if I get it), also my green box with the doves on it, also my; piece of real lace for her neck, and my sketch of her as a me-morial of her 'little girl'.
-- said Amy, trying to decide how she would group the lovers in a sketch she was planning to make.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I can readily believe,' answered he gravely, 'that reports may vary greatly with respect to me; and I could wish, Miss Bennet, that you were not to sketch my character at the present moment, as there is reason to fear that the perfor-mance would reflect no credit on either.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Be pleased to take a sketch of my figure, as follows.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps Mrs. Jennings was in hopes, by this vigorous sketch of their future ennui, to provoke him to make that offer, which might give himself an escape from it; and if so, she had soon afterwards good reason to think her object gained; for, on Elinor's moving to the window to take more expeditiously the dimensions of a print, which she was going to copy for her friend, he followed her to it with a look of particular meaning, and conversed with her there for several minutes.
-- In Edward she knew not what she saw, nor what she wished to see; happy or unhappy, nothing pleased her; she turned away her head from every sketch of him.
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