lap是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (跑道的) 一圈; 腰以下及大腿的前面部分; vt. (赛跑中) 比(某人) 领先一圈; 轻拍，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I only hope he is not unwell,' said the house-dog; when, pop!he made a jump all on one side into the lap of the Prin-cess, who was sitting on a little golden stool close by.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The maid took a handbag and the lap dog, the butler and a porter the other baggage.
-- All her face would be visible, she would smile, she would hug him, he would sniff her fragrance, feel the softness of her arms, and cry with happiness, just as he had one evening lain on her lap while she tickled him, and he laughed and bit her white, ring-covered fingers.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His head was buried in her lap and he clung to her affection, the one reality in a world of chattering ghosts.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'In the act, my dear Annie,' repeated Mrs. Markleham, spreadingthe newspaper on her lap like a tablecloth, and patting her handsupon it.
-- One of our boys laid his head in his mother's lap to be out ofharm's way, and little Agnes (our eldest child) left her doll in achair to represent her, and thrust out her little heap of golden curlsfrom between the window-curtains, to see what happened next.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Troy recumbent in his wife's lap formed now the sole spectacle in the middle of the spacious room.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer came down, just in time to see the cat knock down a plate that covered a bowl of milk, and begin to lap in all haste.
-- de Nucingen would lap up all the mud that lies between the Rue Saint-Lazare and the Rue de Grenelle to gain admittance to my salon.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett longed to be there now, alonewith Ellen, so she could put her head in her mother's lap and cry in peace.
-- Little Wade was no longer anannoyance, for the family, black and white, and the neighbors idolized him and there was a never-ceasing rivalry as towhose lap he should occupy.
-- She put the letters back in the lap secretary and closed the lid.
-- Mrs. Meade was looking down into her lap and she did not raise her head when her name was called, but the faceof little Phil beside her was an open book that all might read.
-- People's faceslooked pinched and the few soldiers Scarlett saw wore the exhausted look of racers forcing themselves on through thelast lap of a race already lost.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But I don't mean in that form, sir," returned Mr. Pumblechook, who had an objection to being interrupted; "I mean, enjoying himself with his elders and betters, and improving himself with their conversation, and rolling in the lap of luxury.
-- This again was heightened by a certain gypsy character that set the banquet off; for while the table was, as Mr. Pumblechook might have said, the lap of luxury,--being entirely furnished forth from the coffee-house,--the circumjacent region of sitting-room was of a comparatively pastureless and shifty character; imposing on the waiter the wandering habits of putting the covers on the floor (where he fell over them), the melted butter in the arm-chair, the bread on the bookshelves, the cheese in the coal-scuttle, and the boiled fowl into my bed in the next room,--where I found much of its parsley and butter in a state of congelation when I retired for the night.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when he came into the palace, the flies were sleeping on the walls; the spit was standing still; the butler had the 36 Grimms' Fairy Talesjug of ale at his lips, going to drink a draught; the maid sat with a fowl in her lap ready to be plucked; and the cook in the kitchen was still holding up her hand, as if she was go-ing to beat the boy.
-- One of them now no-ticed a gold ring still remaining on the little finger of the murdered girl, and as he could not draw it off easily, he took a hatchet and cut off the finger; but the finger sprang into the air, and fell behind the cask into the lap of the girl who was hiding there.
-- So they sat down, and he laid his 325head in her lap and fell asleep; and whilst he was sleeping on she took the cloak from his shoulders, hung it on her own, picked up the diamonds, and wished herself home again.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whenever I had a mind to see the town, it was always in my travelling-closet; which Glumdalclitch held in her lap in a kind of open sedan, after the fashion of the country, borne by four men, and attended by two others in the queen's livery.
-- When it was finished, the queen was so delighted, that she ran with it in her lap to the king, who ordered it to be put into a cistern full of water, with me in it, by way of trial, where I could not manage my two sculls, or little oars, for want of room.
-- I ventured to offer to the learned among them a conjecture of my own, that Laputa was quasi lap outed; lap, signifying properly, the dancing of the sunbeams in the sea, and outed, a wing; which, however, I shall not obtrude, but submit to the judicious reader.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma Gordon, in whothe lap you're a lying at prethent, would be a mother to you, and Joth'phine would be a thithter to you.
-- But you must confess that you were born in the lap of luxury, yourself.
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