foliage是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 叶子(总称)，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：
-- CHAPTER XXIII A SINGULAR ABODETHE tree on which Glenarvan and his companions had just found refuge, resembled a walnut-tree, having the same glossy foliage and rounded form.
-- Nature made no mistake in giving this peculiar foliage to the tree, but men have erred in calling them EUCALYPTUS."
-- However, this disposition of foliage was certainly to be regretted, for the journey through the forest was often long and painful, as the traveler had no protection whatever against the sun's fierce rays.
-- He found it drew capitally, and the smoke was lost in the dark foliage above.
-- A few steps more and they were hid from sight in the thick foliage of the trees.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The son of Telamon now struck him under the ear with a spear which he then drew back again, and Imbrius fell headlong as an ash-tree when it is felled on the crest of some high mountain beacon, and its deli-cate green foliage comes toppling down to the ground.
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：
-- The tendrils of the peas hung down over the boxes; and the rose-trees shot up long branches, twined round the win-dows, and then bent towards each other: it was almost like a triumphant arch of foliage and flowers.
-- It was so thick, and the foliage so dense, that it was quite fatiguing to proceed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pepper plants replaced the prickly hedges of European fields; sago-bushes, large ferns with gorgeous branches, varied the aspect of this tropical clime; while nutmeg-trees in full foliage filled the air with a penetrating perfume.
-- On the branches of the cedars were perched large eagles; amid the foliage of the weeping willows were herons, solemnly standing on one leg; and on every hand were crows, ducks, hawks, wild birds, and a multitude of cranes, which the Japanese consider sacred, and which to their minds symbolise long life and prosperity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I stopped short, among the thick foliage outside, for themoon was up now, though obscured; and I recognised the manwhom I had once supposed to be a delusion of Mr. Dick's, and hadonce encountered with my aunt in the streets of the City.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Uncas maintained his elevated stand, keeping his eyes on the form of Cora, until the colors of her dress were blended with the foliage of the forest; when he descended, and, moving silently through the throng, he disappeared in that lodge from which he had so recently issued.
-- The instant, however, he was concealed by the foliage of the bushes, his dusky form was to be seen gliding, like that of a serpent, toward the de-sired treasure.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the recesses of this knot of foliage the loud notes of three cuckoos were resounding through the still air.
-- By reason of the density of the interwoven foliage overhead, it was gloomy there at cloudless noontide, twilight in the evening, dark as midnight at dusk, and black as the ninth plague of Egypt at midnight.
-- Tufts and garlands of green foliage decorated the walls, beams, and extemporized chandeliers, and immediately opposite to Oak a rostrum had been erected, bearing a table and chairs.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Look at that castle which overhangs yon precipice; and that also on the island, almost concealed amongst the foliage of those lovely trees; and now that group of labourers coming from among their vines; and that village half hid in the re-cess of the mountain.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The freshly green foliage lookedsickly, the dogwood pallid, and the flowering crab, so beautifully pink a moment ago, faded and dreary.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cat sprang nimbly up a tree, and sat down at the top of it, where the branches and foliage quite concealed her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The child watched him from the porch until the intervening foliage hid him from her view, and then stepped softly out into the old churchyard so solemn and quiet that every rustle of her dress upon the fallen leaves, which strewed the path and made her footsteps noiseless, seemed an invasion of its silence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rich foliage of the trees, the luxuriant grass diversified with wild flowers, the little green islands in the river, the beds of rushes, the water-lilies floating on the surface of the stream, the distant voices in boats borne musically towards him on the ripple of the water and the evening air, were all expressive of rest.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The last rays of the sun gleamed through the thick foliage and glanced on the little waterfall, making the spray sparkle with all the colors of the rainbow.
-- The exploration of these dense masses of wood was difficult in the extreme, and the reporter never ventured there without the pocket-compass, for the sun scarcely pierced through the thick foliage and it would have been very difficult for them to retrace their way.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fern fronds he had stood between came swishing together, I pushed out of the brake after him, and was astonished to find him swinging cheerfully by one lank arm from a rope of creeper that looped down from the foliage overhead.
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