leaf是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 叶子； (书刊的) 一页， 一张； 金属薄片，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was quiet and attentive; watched the 87opening proceedings with a grave interest; and stood with his hands resting on the slab of wood before him, so com-posedly, that they had not displaced a leaf of the herbs with which it was strewn.
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：
-- Here one of the sorrows of life, in which there is real poetry, gave itself vent; not that barren grief which the poet may only hint at, but never depict in its detail misery and want: that animal necessity, in short, to snatch at least at a fallen leaf of the bread-fruit tree, if not at the fruit itself.
-- Oh, how tender and wearied her little feet were!All around it looked so cold and raw: the long willow-leaves were quite yellow, and the fog dripped from them like wa-ter; one leaf fell after the other: the sloes only stood full of fruit, which set one's teeth on edge.
-- And they went into the garden in the large avenue, where one leaf was falling after the other; and when the lights in the palace had all gradually disappeared, the Raven led lit-tle Gerda to the back door, which stood half open.
-- THE HAPPY FAMILY eally, the largest green leaf in this country is a dockleaf; Rif one holds it before one, it is like a whole apron, and if one holds it over one's head in rainy weather, it is almost as good as an umbrella, for it is so immensely large.
-- The roads crossed each other in the depths of the forest, 162 Andersen's Fairy Talesand she no longer knew whither she should go!then there stood a thorn-bush; there was neither leaf nor flower on it, it was also in the cold winter season, and ice-flakes hung on the branches.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Levin said to himself, noticing a wet, slate- colored aspen leaf moving beside a blade of young grass.
-- Her hand shook as it played with a leaf she had picked.
-- she thought, still staring at him in the same way, and feeling the hand that held the leaf was trembling more and more.
-- The leaf in her hand shook more violently, but she did not take her eyes off him, watching how he would take it.
-- "Besides, I want to turn over a new leaf completely now.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was shaking like a leaf as he said this.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The blossom is blighted, the leaf iswithered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and-and in short you are for ever floored.
-- Under a dull lamp in the road, Iwrote our two addresses on a leaf of my pocket-book, which I toreout and gave to her, and which she put in her poor bosom.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He heard what seemed to be the flitting of a dead leaf upon the breeze, and looked.
-- "We thought we heard a hand pawing about the door for the bobbin, but weren't sure 'twere not a dead leaf blowed across," said another.
-- "I suppose not," said Gabriel bitterly, and going on with his turning, his words rising and falling in a regular swell and cadence as he stooped or rose with the winch, which directed them, according to his position, perpendicularly into the earth, or horizontally along the garden, his eyes being fixed on a leaf upon the ground.
-- There was no perceptible motion in the air, not a visible drop of water fell upon a leaf of the beeches, birches, and firs composing the wood on either side.
-- He stooped over the table, pulled a leaf from a warped pocket-book, and wrote upon the paper, in a round hand "Your husband is here.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought it a little too much that he should complain of being cut short in his flower after all, as if he had not been running to seed, leaf after leaf, ever since his course began.
-- interrupted Biddy, looking closely at the leaf in her hand.
-- Biddy, having rubbed the leaf to pieces between her hands,--and the smell of a black-currant bush has ever since recalled to me that evening in the little garden by the side of the lane,--said, "Have you never considered that he may be proud?"
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