expression是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 表达； 表情； 声调； 腔调； 榨出； 措词； 式； 符号，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Kill-e," cried Queequeg, twisting his tattooed face into an unearthly expression of disdain, "ah!him bevy small-e fish-e; Queequeg no kill-e so small-e fish-e; Queequeg kill-e big whale!"
-- And, not to speak of the highly presumable difference of contour between a young sucking whale and a full-grown Platonian Leviathan; yet, even in the case of one of those young sucking whales hoisted to a ship's deck, such is then the outlandish, eel-like, limbered, varying shape of him, that his precise expression the devil himself could not catch.
-- Sometimes these tufts impart a rather brigandish expression to his otherwise solemn countenance.
-- Can you catch the expression of the Sperm Whale's there?
-- Still, in that famous work of his, Lavater not only treats of the various faces of men, but also attentively studies the faces of horses, birds, serpents, and fish; and dwells in detail upon the modifications of expression discernible therein.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every now and then I could see a fresh white head, and a slightly melancholy expression of countenance, peering at me through the vapor.
-- Then tranquilly, with the air of an automaton, without any more expression in one kiss than another, he embraced the host and hostess and their nineteen children.
-- My uncle was watching--his eyes fixed intently on my countenance, a grave expression on his face, a tear in his eye.
-- At that moment, if he did not indeed quite share our natural emotion, he allowed his feelings so far to give way as to indulge in an extraordinary expression for him.
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：
-- It is curious what a subtle but unmistakable transmutation it makes, both in the body of men and women: the woman more blooming, more subtly rounded, her young angularities softened, and her expression either anxious or triumphant: the man much quieter, more inward, the very shapes of his shoulders and his buttocks less assertive, more hesitant.
-- He sat square and well-groomed in his chair, his hair sleek and blond, and his face fresh, his blue eyes pale, and a little prominent, his expression inscrutable, but well-bred.
-- But there he would sit, with a blank entranced expression on his face, like a person losing his mind, and listen, or seem to listen, to the unspeakable thing.
-- The expression died utterly out of his face, out of his whole body.
-- The face in the bed seemed to deepen its expression of wild, but motionless distraction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was waiting to be fed, looking sideways through the bars that he might see the further down the stairs, with much of the expression of a wild beast in similar expectation.
-- The child put all these things between the bars into the soft, Smooth, well-shaped hand, with evident dread more than once drawing back her own and looking at the man with her fair brow roughened into an expression half of fright and half of anger.
-- Neither is there any expression of the human countenance at all like that expression in every little line of which the frightened heart is seen to beat.
-- One could hardly see the face, so still and scornful, set off by the arched dark eyebrows, and the folds of dark hair, without wondering what its expression would be if a change came over it.
-- With the coldest of farewells, and with a certain worn expression on her beauty that gave it, though scarcely yet in its prime, a wasted look, she left the room.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth, or Beth, as everyone called her, was a rosy, smoothhaired, bright-eyed girl of thirteen, with a shy manner, a timid voice, and a ;peaceful expression which was seldom disturbed.
-- Jo put her arm round her and, leaning cheek to cheek, read also, with the quiet expression so seldom seen on her rest-less face.
-- He only looked dawn a minute, and the expression of his face puzzled Jo when he said very gently, 'Never mind that.
-- Just before school closed, Jo appeared, wearing a grim expression as she stalked up to the desk, and delivered a let-ter from her mother, then collected Amy's property, and departed, carefully scraping the mud from her boots on the door mat, as if she shook that dust of the place off her feet.
-- He glanced at her frizzled head, bare shoulders, and fan-tastically trimmed dress with an expression that abashed her more than his answer, which had not particle of his usu-al politeness in it.
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