carving是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 雕塑，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To the soup succeeded the peccaries, which Pencroft insisted on carving himself, and of which he served out monstrous portions to each of the guests.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Crowds of well-dressed people, with hats bright in the sun, swarmed about the entrance and along the well-swept little paths between the little houses adorned with carving in the Russian style.
-- My writing is something after the fashion of those little baskets and carving which Liza Mertsalova used to sell me from the prisons.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an old door in this playground, on which the boys had acustom of carving their names.
-- I could not help wondering in my ownmind, as I contemplated the boiled leg of mutton before me,previous to carving it, how it came to pass that our joints of meatwere of such extraordinary shapes- and whether our butchercontracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; butI kept my reflections to myself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This screen, together with two seats in the broad chimney, had at some forgotten date been part of the church or convent; for the oak, hastily appropriated to its present purpose, had been little altered from its former shape, and presented to the eye a pile of fragments of rich carving from old monkish stalls.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The arch of the doorway was richly carved, but naturally I did not observe the carving very narrowly, though I fancied I saw suggestions of old Ph脜聯nician decorations as I passed through, and it struck me that they were very badly broken and weather-worn.
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：
-- "I thought it was savage carving again."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before passing the threshold, I paused to admire a quantity of grotesque carving lavished over the front, and especially about the principal door; above which, among a wilderness of crumbling griffins and shameless little boys, I detected the date '1500,' and the name 'Hareton Earnshaw.'
-- But, with the help of Satan, I shall make you swallow the carving knife, Nelly!You needn't laugh; for I've just crammed Kenneth, head downmost, in the Blackhorse marsh; and two is the same as one and I want to kill some of you: I shall have no rest till I do!
-- But I don't like the carving knife, Mr. Hindley,' I answered; 'it has been cutting red herrings.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Whose name, Tom,' said Mr. Harthouse, putting his hand upon his shoulder and turning him, so that they all three walked towards the house together, 'have you been carving on the trees?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mounting to his attic, attended by Mrs Plornish as interpreter, he found Mr Baptist with no furniture but his bed on the ground, a table, and a chair, carving with the aid of a few simple tools, in the blithest way possible.
-- 'Why, sir,' rejoined Mrs Plornish, 'he turns out to have quite a power of carving them flowers that you see him at now.'
-- His carving is his livelihood.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them; and though, while the valiant butchers over the deck-table are thus cannibally carving each other's live meat with carving-knives all gilded and tasselled, the sharks, also, with their jewel-hilted mouths, are quarrelsomely carving away under the table at the dead meat; and though, were you to turn the whole affair upside down, it would still be pretty much the same thing, that is to say, a shocking sharkish business enough for all parties; and though sharks also are the invariable outriders of all slave ships crossing the Atlantic, systematically trotting alongside, to be handy in case a parcel is to be carried anywhere, or a dead slave to be decently buried; and though one or two other like instances might be set down, touching the set terms, places, and occasions, when sharks do most socially congregate, and most hilariously feast; yet is there no conceivable time or occasion when you will find them in such countless numbers, and in gayer or more jovial spirits, than around a dead sperm whale, moored by night to a whaleship at sea.
-- Many spare hours he spent, in carving the lid with all manner of grotesque figures and drawings; and it seemed that hereby he was striving, in his rude way, to copy parts of the twisted tattooing on his body.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could have understood the meaning of a little stone-cutter's yard at Columbia City, carving little pieces of marble for individual use, but when the yards of some huge stone corporation came into view, filled with spur tracks and flat cars, transpierced by docks from the river and traversed overhead by immense trundling cranes of wood and steel, it lost all significance in her little world.
-- There were soft rugs, rich, upholstered chairs and divans, a grand piano, a marble carving of some unknown Venus by some unknown artist, and a number of small bronzes gathered from heaven knows where, but generally sold by the large furniture houses along with everything else which goes to make the "perfectly appointed house."
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