description是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 描写, 描绘, 叙述，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You will soon, I earnestly hope, know her thoroughly yourself. No description can describe her.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Description of Farmer Oak An IncidentWhen Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sleep fled from my eyes; I wandered like an evil spirit, for I had committed deeds of mischief beyond description horrible, and more, much more (I persuaded myself) was yet behind.
-- Everything is relat-ed in them which bears reference to my accursed origin; the whole detail of that series of disgusting circumstances which produced it is set in view; the minutest description 154 Frankensteinof my odious and loathsome person is given, in language which painted your own horrors and rendered mine indel-ible.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This description must be received with a week-day limitation.
-- As I am now generalizing a period of my life with the object of clearing my way before me, I can scarcely do so better than by at once completing the description of our usual manners and customs at Barnard's Inn.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I shall not anticipate the reader with further de-scriptions of this kind, because I reserve them for a greater work, which is now almost ready for the press; containing a general description of this empire, from its first erection, through along series of princes; with a particular account of their wars and politics, laws, learning, and religion; their plants and animals; their peculiar manners and customs, with other matters very curious and useful; my chief design at present being only to relate such events and transactions as happened to the public or to myself during a residence of about nine months in that empire.
-- lthough I intend to leave the description of this em-Apire to a particular treatise, yet, in the mean time, I am content to gratify the curious reader with some general ideas.
-- A description of the inhabitants.
-- 112 Gulliver's TravelsChapter II A description of the farmer's daughter.
-- My master took a lodging in the principal street of the city, not far from the royal palace, and put out bills in the usual form, containing an exact description of my per-son and parts.
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：
-- 'But also, it seems to me a per-fect description of the whole of the industrial ideal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Several projectors, likewise, availed themselves of the same opportunity to correspond with Mr Meagles; as, for example, to apprise him that their attention having been called to the advertisement by a friend, they begged to state that if they should ever hear anything of the young person, they would not fail to make it known to him immediately, and that in the meantime if he would oblige them with the funds necessary for bringing to perfection a certain entirely novel description of Pump, the happiest results would ensue to mankind.
-- This, with exact particulars of time and locality, and with a good detailed description of the foreign gentleman who had so mysteriously vanished, Mr Dorrit read at large.
-- Nevertheless, he did not come forth from his own rooms until late in the afternoon; and, although he then caused himself to be magnificently arrayed for a drive with Mrs General and his daughter, his appearance was scarcely up to his description of himself.
-- Concurrently with this measure (the description of which cost Mr Rugg innumerable wry faces and great uneasiness in his limbs), he would address a letter to all the creditors, exonerating his partner in a solemn manner, informing them of the stoppage of the House until their pleasure could be known and his partner communicated with, and humbly submitting himself to their direction.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her teachers complained that instead of doing her sums she covered her slate with animals, the blank pages of her atlas were used to copy maps on, and car-icatures of the most ludicrous description came fluttering out of all her books at unlucky moments.
-- Jo liked his good breeding, and didn't mind having a laugh at Aunt March, so she gave him a lively description of the fidgety old lady, her fat poodle, the parrot that talked Spanish, and the library where she reveled.
-- Perhaps curiosity might have conquered resentment, if Beth had not been there to inquire and receive a glowing description of the play.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This man interested me at once; and since the sea-gods had ordained that he should soon become my shipmate (though but a sleeping-partner one, so far as this narrative is concerned), I will here venture upon a little description of him.
-- Another runs to read the bill that's stuck against the spile upon the wharf to which the ship is moored, offering five hundred gold coins for the apprehension of a parricide, and containing a description of his person.
-- I shall not pretend to a minute anatomical description of the various species, or in this place at least to much of any description.
-- It is much the same with him who endeavors the description of the scene.
-- Already has it been related how the great leviathan is afar off descried from the mast-head; how he is chased over the watery moors, and slaughtered in the valleys of the deep; how he is then towed alongside and beheaded; and how (on the principle which entitled the headsman of old to the garments in which the beheaded was killed) his great padded surtout becomes the property of his executioner; how, in due time, he is condemned to the pots, and, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, his spermaceti, oil, and bone pass unscathed through the fire; but now it remains to conclude the last chapter of this part of the description by rehearsing singing, if I may the romantic proceeding of decanting off his oil into the casks and striking them down into the hold, where once again leviathan returns to his native profundities, sliding along beneath the surface as before; but, alas!never more to rise and blow.
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