patch是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 补钉, 眼罩; 斑点; 小块土地; vt. 补缀; 修补, 平息，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet even when his eyes were opened on the mist and rain, on the moving patch of light from the lamps, and the 19hedge at the roadside retreating by jerks, the night shad-ows outside the coach would fall into the train of the night shadows within.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, of course," said Konstantin, looking at the patch of red that had come out on his brother's projecting cheek bones.
-- The weather had become worse than ever towards evening; the hail lashed the drenched mare so cruelly that she went along sideways, shaking her head and ears; but Levin was all right under his hood, and he looked cheerfully about him at the muddy streams running under the wheels, at the drops hanging on every bare twig, at the whiteness of the patch of unmelted hailstones on the planks of the bridge, at the thick layer of still juicy, fleshy leaves that lay heaped up about the stripped elm-tree.
-- Vronsky took off his soft, wide-brimmed hat and passed his handkerchief over his heated brow and hair, which had grown half over his ears, and was brushed back covering the bald patch on his head.
-- In spite of his assertion to the contrary, she was firmly persuaded that he was as much a Christian as she, and indeed a far better one; and all that he said about it was simply one of his absurd masculine freaks, just as he would say about her broderie anglaise that good people patch holes, but that she cut them on purpose, and so on.
-- They were all flying from the beehives behind the hedge, and they disappeared over the hemp patch in the direction of the marsh.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To this hour I don't know whether my aunt had any lawful right ofway over that patch of green; but she had settled it in her ownmind that she had, and it was all the same to her.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Smith, and Miss Bickerton, another parlour board-er at Mrs. Goddard's, who had been also at the ball, had walked out together, and taken a road, the Richmond road, which, though apparently public enough for safety, had led them into alarm. About half a mile beyond Highbury, making a sudden turn, and deeply shaded by elms on each side, it became for a considerable stretch very retired; and when the young ladies had advanced some way into it, they 404 Emmahad suddenly perceived at a small distance before them, on a broader patch of greensward by the side, a party of gipsies.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A rusty patch immediately upon the verse, caused by previous pressure of an iron substance thereon, told that this was not the first time the old volume had been used for the purpose.
-- They scanned the shady green patch by the roadside.
-- He pulled the horse's head from the large patch of turf it had eaten bare, readjusted the boughs over the coffin, and drove along through the unwholesome night.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After some time the young queen heard her husband say in his dreams at night: 'Boy, make me the doublet, and patch the pantaloons, or else I will rap the yard-measure over your ears.'
-- The little tailor, who was only pretending to be asleep, began to cry out in a clear voice: 'Boy, make me the doublet and patch me the pantaloons, or I will rap the yard-measure over your ears.
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：
-- And beyond that again, in the wide rolling regions of the castles, smoke waved against steam, and patch after patch of raw reddish brick showed the newer mining settlements, sometimes in the hollows, sometimes gruesomely ugly along the sky-line of the slopes.
-- The chair gave a sort of scurry, reeled on a few more yards, and came to her end amid a particularly promising patch of bluebells.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before it, a square court-yard where a shrub or two and a patch of grass were as rank (which is saying much) as the iron railings enclosing them were rusty; behind it, a jumble of roots.
-- When the time for opening came again, he was so anxious to see Bob, that they were fain to patch up a narrative how that Bob many a year dead then, gentle turnkey had taken cold, but hoped to be out to-morrow, or the next day, or the next at furthest.
-- A blurred circle of yellow haze had risen up in the sky in lieu of sun, and he had watched the patch it put upon his wall, like a bit of the prison's raggedness.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His clothes were rusty, his hands were large, and he hadn't a really handsome feature in his face, except his beautiful teeth, yet I liked him, for he had a fine head, his linen was very nice, and he looked like a gentle-man, though two buttons were off his coat and there was a patch on one shoe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He warn't one of the family, at that time; and one night he was robbed of three hundred and twenty-seven guineas in a canvas bag, that was stole out of his bedroom in the dead of night, by a tall man with a black patch over his eye, who had concealed himself under the bed, and after committing the robbery, jumped slap out of window: which was only a story high.
-- Next morning, Spyers took his old place, and looked out, from behind the curtain, for a tall man with a black patch over his eye, till his own two eyes ached again.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Evidently his wife was not going to patch up peace at a word.
-- There must be some way round, some way to make her own up that he was right and she was wrong--to patch up a peace and shut out Hurstwood for ever.
-- He expected to find her, to justify his return by claiming that he came to get the remaining portion of his wardrobe, and before he got away again to patch up a peace.
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