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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He had left his own marks all over that small patch of gravel.
-- The whole front was draped in ivy, with a patch clipped bare here and there where a window or a coat-of-arms broke through the dark veil.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A ray of candle-light penetrating a torn patch in the right shoulder, made a triangle of light under the left ribs.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was too far to see any details; it seemed to me then simply a low-lying patch of dim blue in the uncer- tain blue-grey sea.
-- The rivulet was hidden by the luxuriant vegetation of the banks save at one point, where I caught a triangular patch of its glittering water.
-- I was startled by a great patch of vivid scarlet on the ground, and going up to it found it to be a peculiar fungus, branched and corrugated like a foliaceous lichen, but deli-quescing into slime at the touch; and then in the shadow of some luxuriant ferns I came upon an unpleasant thing, the dead body of a rabbit covered with shining flies, but still warm and with the head torn off.
-- The ocean rose up around me, hiding that low, dark patch from my eyes.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last Mowgli rounded up the bewildered herd at the head of the ravine on a grassy patch that sloped steeply down to the ravine itself.
-- Rikki-tikki heard them going up the path from the sta-bles, and he raced for the end of the melon patch near the wall.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The scout stooped to the task, and instantly added: 'You are right, boy; here is the patch we saw so often in the other chase.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man sat watching the shadows as they trembled in this patch of light, until the sun went down; and when it was night, and the moon was slowly rising, he still sat in the same spot.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In front of them was a patch of lilac bushes, behind which no one ran, but Katiousha, turning toward Nekhludoff, motioned him with her head to join her there.
-- Wherever there was a patch of unpaved ground the green grass burst forth; the lindens were covered with green nap; the fowl-cherry and poplar unfolded their long, fragrant leaves.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was right, as appeared later; but in the meantime, the house being stifling hot and the little patch of sand inside the palisade ablaze with midday sun, I began to get another thought into my head, which was not by any means so right.
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：
-- They turned off the main road, past a black patch of common-garden, where sooty cabbage stumps stood shameless.
-- Far across shone the little yellow lights of Beldover, many of them, spread in a thick patch on another dark hill.
-- And the colliers' sweethearts would, like herself, hang their heads back limp over their shoulder, and look out from the dark archway, at the close patch of yellow lights on the unseen hill in the distance, or at the vague form of trees, and at the buildings of the colliery wood-yard, in the other direction.
-- When she opened her eyes again, and saw the patch of lights in the distance, it seemed to her strange that the world still existed, that she was standing under the bridge resting her head on Gerald's breast.
-- The old market-square was not very large, a mere bare patch of granite setts, usually with a few fruit-stalls under a wall.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Several times she came so late as scarcely to have an hour in which to patch up a meal and start for the theatre.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I poked into the place a-ways and come to a little open patch as big as a bedroom all hung around with vines, and found a man laying there asleep and, by jings, it was my old Jim!
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