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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Absolute calm reigned in the atmosphere; not a leaf stirred on the tree, not a ripple disturbed the surface of the water.
-- Not a bird built its nest in these aerial skeletons; not a leaf trembled on the dry branches, which rattled together like bones.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had turned down the leaf at the open page, and pocketed it before they could explain that it was a library book.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore I say, and swear it with a great oath nay, by this my sceptre which shalt sprout neither leaf nor shoot, nor bud anew from the day on which it left its parent stem upon the mountains for the axe stripped it of leaf and bark, and now the sons of the Achaeans bear it as judges and guardians of the decrees of heaven so surely and solemnly do I swear that hereafter they shall look fondly for Achilles and shall not find him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He bit the end savagely before Kemp could find a knife, and cursed when the outer leaf loosened.
-- Over the leaf the report in the morning paper had been reprinted.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I turned as noiselessly as possible, and becoming ev-ery now and then rigid with the fear of being discovered, as a branch cracked or a leaf rustled, I pushed back into the bushes.
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：
-- He still heard the gentle breathings of the sisters, who lay within a few feet of him, and not a leaf was ruffled by the passing air of which his ear did not detect the whispering sound.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On my objecting to this retreat, he took us into another room with a dinner-table for thirty, and in the grate a scorched leaf of a copy-book under a bushel of coal-dust.
-- It is impossible to turn this leaf of my life, without putting Bentley Drummle's name upon it; or I would, very gladly.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gnat, who was the most crafty, flew into the forest where the enemy was assembled, and hid herself beneath a leaf of the tree where the password was to be announced.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the fly leaf was what appeared to be a blot of ink, but on examination proved to be a line of writing almost effaced by time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, there's a tame bird to kiss the little hand!This sausage in a vine leaf is for Monsieur Rigaud.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Don't talk that way, turn over a new leaf and begin again, Teddy, my son.'
-- 'I'll take a leaf out of her book, and try not only to seem glad, but to be so, and not grudge her one minute of happiness.
-- So he put her up at the table, opened the great dic-tionary she had brought, and gave her a paper and pencil, and she scribbled away, turning a leaf now and then, and passing her little fat finger down the page, as if finding a word, so soberly that I nearly betrayed myself by a laugh, while Mr. Bhaer stood stroking her pretty hair with a fa-therly look that made me think she must be his own, though she looked more French than German.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ear has no external leaf whatever; and into the hole itself you can hardly insert a quill, so wondrously minute is it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is very possible that he fancied himself there, indeed; for it was plain, from his abstraction, that he saw not the book-stall, nor the street, nor the boys, nor, in short, anything but the book itself: which he was reading straight through: turning over the leaf when he got to the bottom of a page, beginning at the top line of the next one, and going regularly on, with the greatest interest and eagerness.
-- The sun shone brightly; as brightly as if it looked upon no misery or care; and, with every leaf and flower in full bloom about her; with life, and health, and sounds and sights of joy, surrounding her on every side: the fair young creature lay, wasting fast.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Marianne, as she wandered alone before the house, on the last evening of their being there; "when shall I cease to regret you! when learn to feel a home elsewhere! Oh!happy house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you no more! And you, ye well-known trees! but you will continue the same. No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer! No; you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade! But who will remain to enjoy you?"
-- She went to it; but the music on which her eye first rested was an opera, procured for her by Willoughby, containing some of their favourite duets, and bearing on its outward leaf her own name in his hand-writing. That would not do. She shook her head, put the music aside, and after running over the keys for a minute, complained of feebleness in her fingers, and closed the instrument again; declaring however with firmness as she did so, that she should in future practice much.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And after supper he talked to him about temperance and such things till the old man cried, and said he'd been a fool, and fooled away his life; but now he was a-going to turn over a new leaf and be a man nobody wouldn't be ashamed of, and he hoped the judge would help him and not look down on him.
-- Store tobacco is flat black plug, but these fellows mostly chaws the natural leaf twisted.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Round about him, not a leaf stirred.
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