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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She ran off a few steps, like a blown leaf along the ground, then crouched unobtrusively, in submissive, wild patience.
-- Dora drifted away at once, like a leaf lifted on a breath of wind.
-- There is a long way we can travel, after the death-break: after that point when the soul in intense suffering breaks, breaks away from its organic hold like a leaf that falls.
-- She was a leaf upon a dying tree.
-- And she was a leaf of the old great tree of knowledge that was withering now.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Here," replied Spilett, after some hesitation tearing a leaf out of his note-book.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And there, too, is the ever faithful Barbara's mother, still holding the baby as if she had never put it down since that sad day when they little hoped to have such joy as this there she is, Heaven bless her, crying her eyes out, and sobbing as never woman sobbed before; and there is little Barbara poor little Barbara, so much thinner and so much paler, and yet so very pretty trembling like a leaf and supporting herself against the wall; and there is Mrs Garland, neater and nicer than ever, fainting away stone dead with nobody to help her; and there is Mr Abel, violently blowing his nose, and wanting to embrace everybody; and there is the single gentleman hovering round them all, and constant to nothing for an instant; and there is that good, dear, thoughtful little Jacob, sitting all alone by himself on the bottom stair, with his hands on his knees like an old man, roaring fearfully without giving any trouble to anybody; and each and all of them are for the time clean out of their wits, and do jointly and severally commit all manner of follies.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she demanded, tying an apron over her neat black frock, and standing with a spoonful of the leaf poised over the pot.
-- It was a Testament, in lean type, and smelling dreadfully musty: a fly leaf bore the inscription 'Catherine Earnshaw, her book,' and a date some quarter of a century back.
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：
-- 'By the Lord, if the Oneidas are outlying upon the trail, we shall by flanked by devils on every side of us!Now, to white eyes there is no difference between this bit of skin and that of any other In-dian, and yet the Sagamore declares it came from the poll of a Mingo; nay, he even names the tribe of the poor devil, with as much ease as if the scalp was the leaf of a book, and each hair a letter.
-- Not a leaf was left unturned.
-- The form of Hawkeye had crouched like a beast about to take its spring, and his frame trembled so violently with eagerness that the muzzle of the half-raised rifle played like a leaf fluttering in the wind.
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