brush是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 刷(子) ， 毛刷； 画笔v. 刷， 擦， 掸， 拂； 掠过，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cowherd girls, picking up their petticoats, ran splashing through the mud with bare legs, still white, not yet brown from the sun, waving brush wood in their hands, chasing the calves that frolicked in the mirth of spring.
-- But in order to signify in some way her preparation for dinner, she asked the maid to brush her dress, changed her cuffs and tie, and put some lace on her head.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Pickerbaugh twins, Arbuta and Gladiola, now aged six, were to show the public how to brush its teeth, and in fact they did, until a sixty-year-old farmer of whom they had lovingly inquired, "Do you brush your teeth daily?"
-- He discovered that a valet had laid out for him to put on, that first evening, all the small store of underclothes he had brought, and had squeezed out on his brush a ribbon of toothpaste.
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：
-- 'Why, Dmitri and I were paint-ing there all day, and we were just getting ready to go, and Dmitri took a brush and painted my face, and he ran off and I after him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My hair hadknown no comb or brush since I left London.
-- He may brush his hair too regular, or toounregular.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But, dear me, I had better go back for my bag, because my slippers and brush and comb are in it; you run home whilst I fetch it, and I'll promise to be in your parlour in ten minutes."
-- When he struck a light indoors there appeared upon the table a thin glistening streak, as if a brush of varnish had been lightly dragged across it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Melanie rustled in from her room,a worried frown puckering her forehead, a brush in her hands, her usually tidy black hair, freed of its net, fluffing abouther face in a mass of tiny curls and waves.
-- She felt something brush her hair and wondered vaguely through her tumult if it were his lips.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ashputtel's two sisters were asked to come; so they called her up, and said, 'Now, comb our hair, brush our shoes, and tie our sashes for us, for we are going to dance at the king's feast.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their apprehensions arise from several changes they dread in the celestial bodies: for instance, that the earth, by the continual approaches of the sun towards it, must, in course of time, be absorbed, or swallowed up; that the face of the sun, will, by degrees, be encrusted with its own efflu-via, and give no more light to the world; that the earth very 205narrowly escaped a brush from the tail of the last comet, which would have infallibly reduced it to ashes; and that the next, which they have calculated for one-and-thirty years hence, will probably destroy us.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'On your chest it's nearly black, and your hair isn't dark on your head: but your moustache is hard and dark red, and your hair here, your love-hair, is like a little brush of bright red-gold mistletoe.
-- And his finger-tips touched the two se-cret openings to her body, time after time, with a soft little brush of fire.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He asked this member of the fraternity (who had two red herrings in his hand, and a loaf and a blacking brush under his arm), where was the nearest place to get a cup of coffee at.
-- 'Or say, Cattivo Soggetto Mio,' returned Gowan, touching the painted face with his brush in the part where the real face had moved, 'a murderer after the fact.
-- 'I have not forsworn society since I joined the brotherhood of the brush (the most delightful fellows on the face of the earth), and am glad enough to smell the old fine gunpowder now and then, though it did blow me into mid-air and my present calling.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I planned to spend mine in new music,' said Beth, with a little sigh, which no one heard but the hearth brush and kettle holder.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here, brush this old hair aside; it blinds me, that I seem to weep.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It exactly answers my idea of a fine country, because it unites beauty with utility and I dare say it is a picturesque one too, because you admire it; I can easily believe it to be full of rocks and promontories, grey moss and brush wood, but these are all lost on me.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was for him to brush the doubts away and clear the path if he could.
-- He had a notion to tell her that he was joking and so brush away her sweet seriousness, but the effect of it was too delightful.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every-body was talking about the murder, but the captain broke in and says: 'Look sharp, now; the current sets in the closest here, and maybe he's washed ashore and got tangled amongst the brush at the water's edge.
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