wash是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 洗； 洗的衣物vt. 冲刷， 洗； 冲出vi. 洗澡，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prince had hardly had time to wash and tidy himself a little when the door opened once more, and another figure appeared.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But save me and take me to your ship; cut out the arrow from my thigh; wash the black blood from off it with warm water, and lay upon it those gracious herbs which, so they say, have been shown you by Achilles, who was himself shown them by Chiron, most righteous of all the centaurs.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the morning Snowdrop told them all her story; and they pitied her, and said if she would keep all things in or-178 Grimms' Fairy Talesder, and cook and wash and knit and spin for them, she might stay where she was, and they would take good care of her.
-- The second night twelve others will come: and the third night twenty-four, who will even cut off your head; but at the twelfth hour of that night their power is gone, and I shall be free, and will come and bring you the Water of Life, and will wash you with it, and bring you back to life and health.'
-- He drew it quickly out again, but saw that it was quite gilded, and whatsoever pains he took to wash the gold off again, all was to no pur-pose.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and can I not distinguish the wash of a great sea?"
-- "If I could but wash this corpse in a solution of sulphuric acid," continued my uncle, "I would undertake to remove all the earthy particles, and these resplendent shells, which are incrus ted all over this body.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this yard a wash of sheets and table-cloths tried (in vain, for want of air) to get itself dried on a line or two; and among those flapping articles was sitting in a chair, like the last mariner left alive on the deck of a damp ship without the power of furling the sails, a little woe-begone young man.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, like all happiness, it did not last long, for as sure as she had just reached the heart of the story, the sweetest verse of a song, or the most perilous adventure of her traveler, a shrill voice called, 'Josy-phine!Josy-phine!and she had to leave her paradise to wind yarn, wash the poodle, or read Belsham's Essays by the hour together.
-- Prim little Winkle too is here, With every hair in place, A model of propriety, Though he hates to wash his face.
-- I wash my hands of the dinner party, and since you have asked Laurie on your own responsibility, you may just take care of him.'
-- 'We three will be ready in a minute,' cried Amy, running away to wash her hands.
-- Give him my lovingest hug that ever was, and kiss yourself a dozen times for your... TOPSY-TURVY JO A SONG FROM THE SUDS Queen of my tub, I merrily sing, While the white foam rises high, And sturdily wash and rinse and wring, And fasten the clothes to dry.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He complied, and then proceeded to wash himself.
-- Seeing himself placed next the Priest, and noting the ceremony, and thinking himself being Captain of a ship as having plain precedence over a mere island King, especially in the King's own house the Captain coolly proceeds to wash his hands in the punchbowl; taking it I suppose for a huge finger-glass.
-- The same waves wash the moles of the new-built Californian towns, but yesterday planted by the recentest race of men, and lave the faded but still gorgeous skirts of Asiatic lands, older than Abraham; while all between float milky-ways of coral isles, and low-lying, endless, unknown Archipelagoes, and impenetrable Japans.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- '(Susan, take Oliver and them two brats upstairs, and wash 'em directly.)
-- Bring it here; and I'll give you a basin to wash in, my dear.'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The blue heaven, holding its one golden orb, poured down a crystal wash of warm light.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Watchman your grandmother,' I says; 'there ain't noth-ing to watch but the texas and the pilot- house; and do you reckon anybody's going to resk his life for a texas and a pi-lot-house such a night as this, when it's likely to break up and wash off down the river any minute?'
-- But s'pose she DON'T break up and wash off?'
-- Next, for about a half an hour, I whoops now and then; at last I hears the answer a long ways off, and tries to follow it, but I couldn't do it, and directly I judged I'd got into a nest of towheads, for I had little dim glimpses of them on both sides of me sometimes just a narrow channel between, and some that I couldn't see I knowed was there because I'd hear the wash of the current against the old dead brush and trash that hung over the banks.
-- There was a big fire-place that was bricked on the bottom, and the bricks was kept clean and red by pouring water on them and scrubbing them with another brick; some- times they wash them over with red water-paint that they call Spanish-brown, same as they do in town.
-- The doctor says: 'All right; I wash MY hands of the matter.
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