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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There she stayed them, unloosed them from the chariot, and gave them their ambrosial forage; but Venus flung herself on to the lap of her mother Dione, who threw her arms about her and caressed her, saying, 'Which of the heavenly beings has been treating you in this way, as though you had been doing something wrong in the face of day?'
-- Even as fierce ravening wolves that are feasting upon a homed stag which they have killed upon the mountains, and their jaws are red with blood they go in a pack to lap water from the clear spring with their long thin tongues; and they reek of blood and slaughter; they know not what fear is, for it is hunger drives them even so did the leaders and counsel-lors of the Myrmidons gather round the good squire of the fleet descendant of Aeacus, and among them stood Achilles himself cheering on both men and horses.
-- Nevertheless the issue lies on the lap of heaven, I will therefore hurl my spear and leave the rest to Jove.'
-- Hector feared him not and answered, 'Son of Peleus, think not that your words can scare me as though I were a child; I too if I will can brag and talk unseemly; I know that you are a mighty war-rior, mightier by far than I, nevertheless the issue lies in the lap of heaven whether I, worse man though I be, may not slay you with my spear, for this too has been found keen ere now.'
-- Have pity also on your unhappy father while life yet remains to him on me, whom the son of Saturn will destroy by a terrible doom on the threshold of old age, after I have seen my sons slain and my daughters haled away as captives, my bridal chambers pillaged, little children dashed to earth amid the rage of battle, and my sons' wives dragged away by the cruel hands of the Achaeans; in the end fierce hounds will tear me in pieces at my own gates after some one has beaten the life out of my body with sword or spear-hounds that I myself reared and fed at my own table to guard my gates, but who will yet lap my blood and then lie all distraught at my doors.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He nearly drowned himself in the bath-tubs, put his nose into the ink on a writing table, and burned it on the end of the big man's cigar, for he climbed up in the big man's lap to see how writ-ing was done.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. MacAndrew smoothed down the lap of her gown, and gold bangles fell over her wrists.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Come, ma'am, you know you were born in the lap of luxury.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But if they lap us round!"
-- "They will not lap us round," was his quiet and serene answer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was so far troublesome that he was not at all wanted there, but she laid her work in her lap for a moment, and held out her left hand with her thimble on it.
-- There was no one with Flora but Mr F.'s Aunt, which respectable gentlewoman, basking in a balmy atmosphere of tea and toast, was ensconced in an easy-chair by the fireside, with a little table at her elbow, and a clean white handkerchief spread over her lap on which two pieces of toast at that moment awaited consumption.
-- And Mr Dorrit's daughter that day began, in earnest, her competition with that woman not present; and began it so well that Mr Dorrit could all but have taken his affidavit, if required, that Mrs Sparkler had all her life been lying at full length in the lap of luxury, and had never heard of such a rough word in the English tongue as Marshalsea.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You're a blighted being, and decidedly cross today be-cause you can't sit in the lap of luxury all the time.
-- She was sick all the next day, and on Saturday went home, quite used up with her fortnight's fun and feel-ing that she had 'sat in the lap of luxury' long enough.
-- And Mr. Brooke laid his book on her lap with an inviting smile.
-- It died in my lap before she got home,' cried Beth with a sob.
-- Then Polly had to be fed, the lap dog combed, and a dozen trips upstairs and down to get things or deliver orders, for the old lady was very lame and seldom left her big chair.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But being now interrupted, he put up the image; and pretty soon, going to the table, took up a large book there, and placing it on his lap began counting the pages with deliberate regularity; at every fiftieth page as I fancied stopping a moment, looking vacantly around him, and giving utterance to a long-drawn gurgling whistle of astonishment.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In her earnest meditations on the contents of the letter, on the depravity of that mind which could dictate it, and probably, on the very different mind of a very different person, who had no other connection whatever with the affair than what her heart gave him with every thing that passed, Elinor forgot the immediate distress of her sister, forgot that she had three letters on her lap yet unread, and so entirely forgot how long she had been in the room, that when on hearing a carriage drive up to the door, she went to the window to see who could be coming so unreasonably early, she was all astonishment to perceive Mrs. Jennings's chariot, which she knew had not been ordered till one.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was no sensualist, longing to drowse sleepily in the lap of luxury.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So she dropped the lump into my lap just at that moment, and I clapped my legs together on it and she went on talking.
-- And, mind you, when a girl tries to catch anything in her lap she throws her knees apart; she don't clap them together, the way you did when you catched the lump of lead.
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