sofa是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 长沙发， 沙发，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At every fresh question that was put to him, this nephew burst into a fresh roar of laughter; and was so inexpressibly tickled, that he was obliged to get up off the sofa and stamp.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lion then composed himself on his back on a sofa on one side of the drinking-table, while the jackal sat at his own paper-bestrewn table proper, on the other side of it, with the bottles and glasses ready to his hand.
-- said Stryver the portly, with his hands in his waistband, glancing round 195from the sofa where he lay on his back.
-- How came he to have fallen asleep, in his clothes, on the sofa in Doctor Manette's con-sulting-room, and to be debating these points outside the Doctor's bedroom door in the early morning?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky--Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world-- woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o'clock in the morning, not in his wife's bedroom, but on the leather-covered sofa in his study.
-- When Stepan Arkadyevitch had disappeared, she went back to the sofa where she had been sitting, surrounded by the children.
-- she glanced towards the sofa beside her, and he instantly sat down.
-- But the louder he spoke, the lower she dropped her once proud and gay, now shame-stricken head, and she bowed down and sank from the sofa where she was sitting, down on the floor, at his feet; she would have fallen on the carpet if he had not held her.
-- After having some lunch, he lay down on the sofa immediately, and in five minutes memories of the hideous scenes he had witnessed during the last few days were confused together and joined on to a mental image of Anna and of the peasant who had played an important part in the bear hunt, and Vronsky fell asleep.
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：
-- The furniture, all very old and of yellow wood, consisted of a sofa with a huge bent wooden back, an oval table in front of the sofa, a dressing-table with a looking-glass fixed on it between the windows, chairs along the walls and two or three half-penny prints in yellow frames, representing German damsels with birds in their hands that was all.
-- There was nothing in the room except two chairs and a sofa covered with American leather, full of holes, be-fore which stood an old deal kitchen-table, unpainted and uncovered.
-- A big clumsy sofa occupied almost the whole of one wall and half the floor space of the room; it was once covered with chintz, but was now in rags and served Ras-kolnikov as a bed.
-- When the soup had been brought, and he had begun upon it, Nastasya sat down beside him on the sofa and be-gan chatting.
-- ***** On returning from the Hay Market he flung himself on the sofa and sat for a whole hour without stirring.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Janet looked a little surprised to see me lying stiffly on the sofa (Iwas afraid to move lest it should be displeasing to my aunt), butwent on her errand.
-- Feelingalso very faint and drowsy, I soon lay down on the sofa again andfell asleep.
-- I was veryglad to see her too, and, after an affectionate greeting on both sides,sat down on the small sofa near her.
-- I was still looking at the doorway,thinking that Miss Mowcher was a long while making herappearance, when, to my infinite astonishment, there camewaddling round a sofa which stood between me and it, a pursydwarf, of about forty or forty-five, with a very large head and face,a pair of roguish grey eyes, and such extremely little arms, that, toenable herself to lay a finger archly against her snub-nose as sheogled Steerforth, she was obliged to meet the finger half-way andlay her nose against it.
-- The mattress of the sofa (which was agreat deal too short for his lank figure), the sofa pillows, a blanket,the table-cover, a clean breakfast-cloth, and a great-coat, made hima bed and covering, for which he was more than thankful.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The corner of the sofa is very good.
-- 'The evil of the distance from Enscombe,' said Mr. Weston, 'is, that Mrs. Churchill, as we understand, has not been able to leave the sofa for a week together.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therealso the family idled while Ellen's quill scratched across her ledgers, Gerald in the old rocker, the girls on the saggingcushions of the sofa that was too battered and worn for the front of the house.
-- He would disdain the bridge and swim his horse through the river and come home roaring, to be putto bed on the sofa in the office by Pork who always waited up with a lamp in the front hall on such occasions.
-- Shecaught hold of the back of the chair, her knees going weak under her, as Rhett Butler rose from the sofa where he hadbeen lying and made her a bow of exaggerated politeness.
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