ornamental是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 装饰的n. 装饰品，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He carried three books bound together by some sort of ornamental elastic ligature, and a bundle wrapped in a blue table-cloth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With that he took his trembling hands, which were like the clawsof a great bird, out of my hair; and put on a pair of spectacles, notat all ornamental to his inflamed eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The chests were taken out with all convenient despatch, and taken in to be unlocked by Mrs Jarley, who, attended by George and another man in velveteen shorts and a drab hat ornamented with turnpike tickets, were waiting to dispose their contents (consisting of red festoons and other ornamental devices in upholstery work) to the best advantage in the decoration of the room.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Casually glancing over the hedge, Oak saw coming down the incline before him an ornamental spring waggon, painted yellow and gaily marked, drawn by two horses, a waggoner walking alongside bearing a whip perpendicularly.
-- Weatherbury tower was a somewhat early instance of the use of an ornamental parapet in parish as distinct from cathedral churches, and the gurgoyles, which are the necessary correlatives of a parapet, were exceptionally prominent of the boldest cut that the hand could shape, and of the most original design that a human brain could conceive.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is a tendency to utilise underground space for the less ornamental purposes of civilisation; there is the Metropolitan Railway in London, for instance, there are new electric railways, there are subways, there are underground workrooms and restaurants, and they increase and multiply.
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 ain't partic'lar as a rule, and I don't take no blame for settling his hash, but I don't reckon him ornamental now, do you?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then my sister sealed them up in a piece of paper, and put them under some dried rose-leaves in an ornamental teapot on the top of a press in the state parlor.
-- Our punch was cooling in an ornamental lake, on whose margin the bower was raised.
-- It had an official look, however, and there was nothing merely ornamental to be seen.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My answer was, 'that we were overstocked with books of travels: that nothing could now pass which was not extraordinary; wherein I doubted some authors less consulted truth, than their own vanity, or in-terest, or the diversion of ignorant readers; that my story could contain little beside common events, without those ornamental descriptions of strange plants, trees, birds, and other animals; or of the barbarous customs and idolatry of savage people, with which most writers abound.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the members of a religious persuasion built a chapel there as the members of eighteen religious persuasions had done they made it a pious warehouse of red brick, with sometimes (but this is only in highly ornamental examples) a bell in a birdcage on the top of it.
-- Mr. Bounderby sat looking at her, as, with the points of a stiff, sharp pair of scissors, she picked out holes for some inscrutable ornamental purpose, in a piece of cambric.
-- There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind junior, as the injured men of Coketown threatened to pitch their property into the Atlantic.
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：
-- The car passed the ornamental ponds, in which the col-liers threw their newspapers, and took the private drive to the house.
-- Had the miners not made him rich!So, when he saw the gangs of unshapely men lounging by his ornamental waters not in the PRIVATE part of the park, no, he drew the line there he would say: 'the miners are perhaps not so ornamental as deer, but they are far more profitable.'
-- But this is a later stage of King Edward's landscape gar-dening, the sort that has an ornamental coal-mine on the lawn.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides his dumb-waiter, Mr Meagles had two other not dumb waiters in the persons of two parlour-maids with rosy faces and bright eyes, who were a highly ornamental part of the table decoration.
-- Not a whit less reticent and wooden was Mr Flintwinch outwardly, than in the usual course of things: the only perceptible difference in him being that the knot of cravat which was generally under his ear, had worked round to the back of his head: where it formed an ornamental appendage not unlike a bagwig, and gave him something of a courtly appearance.
-- All day long he was running towers up, taking towers down, adding a wing here, putting on a battlement there, looking to the walls, strengthening the defences, giving ornamental touches to the interior, making in all respects a superb castle of it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Halting for an instant at the foot of the ladder, and with both hands grasping the ornamental knobs of the man-ropes, Father Mapple cast a look upwards, and then with a truly sailor-like but still reverential dexterity, hand over hand, mounted the steps as if ascending the main-top of his vessel.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the little ornamental clock, which was hers.
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