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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Foliage carved in the stone, and emulating the mastery of Nature's hand, yet remained to tell how many times the leaves outside had come and gone, while it lived on unchanged.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently I noticed how dry was some of the foliage above me, for since my arrival on the Time Machine, a matter of a week, no rain had fallen.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two little rivers, or rather two swamps, emptied out into this pond, as you might call it; and the foliage round that part of the shore had a kind of poisonous brightness.
-- Then I came to a long thicket of these oaklike trees live, or evergreen, oaks, I heard afterwards they should be called which grew low along the sand like brambles, the boughs curiously twisted, the foliage compact, like thatch.
-- As I continued to thread the tall woods, I could hear from far before me not only the continuous thunder of the surf, but a certain tossing of foliage and grinding of boughs which showed me the sea breeze had set in higher than usual.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, under the thick foliage of this wood, a world of parrots were flying from branch to branch, only needing a careful education to speak the human language.
-- We occupied, in this place, the centre of a vast glade surrounded by the lofty foliage of the submarine forest.
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：
-- In the opening of the doorway was a shower of fine foliage and flowers, a whiteness of satin and lace, and a sound of a gay voice saying:"How do I get out?"
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees.
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