drawing是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 绘图， 图样，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：
-- There Diomed wounded him, tearing his fair flesh and then drawing his spear out again.
-- They flayed the carcass, made it ready, and divided it into joints; these they cut carefully up into smaller pieces, putting them on the spits, roast-ing them sufficiently, and then drawing them off.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "One thing is indisputable," said Bunting, drawing up a chair next to that of Cuss.
-- The room was soon full of the appliances I had bought with his money; the work was going on steadily, successfully, drawing near an end.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But I am drawing near the fastness.
-- 'I want food,' said I, almost apologetically, and drawing near.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It still lay on the veranda, and Nagaina came nearer and nearer to it, till at last, while Rik-ki-tikki was drawing breath, she caught it in her mouth, turned to the veranda steps, and flew like an arrow down the path, with Rikki-tikki behind her.
-- There were white-tusked wild males, with fallen leaves and nuts and twigs lying in the wrinkles of their necks and the folds of their ears; fat, slow-footed she-elephants, with restless, little pinky black calves only three or four feet high running under their stomachs; young elephants with their tusks just beginning to show, and very proud of them; lanky, scraggy old-maid elephants, with their hollow anxious fac-es, and trunks like rough bark; savage old bull elephants, scarred from shoulder to flank with great weals and cuts of bygone fights, and the caked dirt of their solitary mud baths dropping from their shoulders; and there was one with a broken tusk and the marks of the full-stroke, the terrible drawing scrape, of a tiger's claws on his side.
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：
-- The sun had already disappeared, and the woods, suddenly deprived of his light*, were assuming a dusky hue, which keenly reminded him that the hour the savage usually chose for his most barbarous and remorseless acts of ven-geance or hostility, was speedily drawing near.
-- 'Come, friend,' said Hawkeye, drawing out a keg from be-neath a cover of leaves, toward the close of the repast, and addressing the stranger who sat at his elbow, doing great justice to his culinary skill, 'try a little spruce; 'twill wash away all thoughts of the colt, and quicken the life in your bosom.
-- asked Cora who stood drawing her veil about her person, with a calmness to which her agitated sister was a stranger.
-- cried the scout, drawing his long knife, while his quick eyes began to flash with ardor, 'take the last of the screeching imps; of the other two we are sartain!'
-- Hawkeye dropped the breech of his rifle to the earth, and drawing a long, free breath, exclaimed, in an audible whis-per: 'Ay!they respect the dead, and it has this time saved their own lives, and, it may be, the lives of better men too.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the dance was at an end, Ichabod was attracted to a knot of the sager folks, who, with Old V an Tassel, sat smoking at one end of the piazza, gossiping over former times, and drawing out long stories about the war.
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：
-- Chapter VIIThe season was drawing to its dusty end, and everyone I knew was arranging to go away.
-- He's been drawing in his horns for the last year."
-- The blighter came round this morning the master, you know; when he saw my drawing he just raised his eyebrows and walked on."
-- It was not only the bold simplification of the drawing which showed so rich and so singular a personality; it was not only the painting, though the flesh was painted with a passionate sensuality which had in it something miraculous; it was not only the solidity, so that you felt extraordinarily the weight of the body; there was also a spirituality, troubling and new, which led the imagination along unsuspected ways, and suggested dim empty spaces, lit only by the eternal stars, where the soul, all naked, adventured fearful to the discovery of new mysteries.
-- Accustomed to the drawing of the old masters, and convinced that Ingres was the greatest draughtsman of recent times, I thought that Strickland drew very badly.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My boy," replied the sailor, bending over the trap and drawing out one of these representatives of the family of sus by the little appendage which served it as a tail.
-- "I suppose so," replied Pencroft, drawing from his lips the object which had cost him a grinder!
-- He was already taught to make himself useful by drawing loads of wood and carting away the stones which were extracted from the bed of Creek Glycerine.
-- A single thing had the honor of drawing him, but for one day only, from his dockyard.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You won't do it agin,' said the boy, nodding his head and drawing back, with the elbows ready in case of the worst; 'now ''Stand still, you dog,' said Quilp.
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