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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he proceeded to give Hall a vivid description of his grotesque guest.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- * This description corresponds in every respect to Noble's Isle.
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：
-- Then, holding the brand, he crossed a deep, narrow chasm in the rocks which ran at right angles with the passage they were in, but which, unlike that, was open to the heavens, and en-tered another cave, answering to the description of the first, in every essential particular.
-- While his auditors received a cheering assurance of the security of their place of concealment from this untutored description of Glenn's,* they were much inclined to judge differently from Hawkeye, of its wild beauties.
-- The description of this pic-turesque and remarkable little cataract, as given by the scout, is sufficiently correct, though the application of the water to uses of civilized life has materially injured its beau-ties.
-- Once or twice the listeners thought they could distinguish the distant rustling of bushes, as bodies of some unknown description rushed through them; nor was it long before Hawkeye pointed out the 'scampering of the wolves,' as they fled precipitately before the passage of some intruder on their proper domains.
-- Hawkeye had, in truth, in these few words, given no bad description of the prospect that now lay in their front.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it is unfortunate that I can give no description of the arduous steps by which he reached such mastery over his art as he ever acquired; for if I could show him undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy, I might excite some sympathy for a personality which, I am all too conscious, must appear singularly devoid of charm.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When be was captured, he was in the act of making a description and sketch of the battle.
-- No description can give an idea of the terrific violence of the gale as it beat upon the unprotected coast.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This Mr Swiveller gave them faithfully as regarded the wishes and character of the single gentleman, and poetically as concerned the great trunk, of which he gave a description more remarkable for brilliancy of imagination than a strict adherence to truth; declaring, with many strong asseverations, that it contained a specimen of every kind of rich food and wine, known in these times, and in particular that it was of a self-acting kind and served up whatever was required, as he supposed by clock-work.
-- In as little time as it takes to tell it, the small servant had the address in pencil on a piece of paper; a verbal description of father and son, which would enable her to recognise either, without difficulty; and a special caution to be shy of Mr Chuckster, in consequence of that gentleman's known antipathy to Kit.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus, over four pages and twenty-seven clauses, ran the description of the external appearance of the terrible, large, stout, swollen and decomposing body of the merchant who amused himself in the city.
-- "'This sentence is the result of grave errors,' he continued with emphasis, 'and ought to be reversed for the following reasons: First, the reading in the indictment of the description of the entrails of Smelkoff was interrupted by the justiciary at the very beginning.'--One."
-- Such a wonderful little woman," she said, repeating her description of the old woman, and slightly smiled.
-- It turned out that, besides the aim of his journey, which was the description of the exile system--he had another one--the preaching of the gospel, of salvation through faith.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amongst these specimens I will quote from memory only the elegant royal hammer-fish of the Indian Ocean, whose regular white spots stood out brightly on a red and brown ground, an imperial spondyle, bright-coloured, bristling with spines, a rare specimen in the European museums (I estimated its value at not less than L1000); a common hammer-fish of the seas of New Holland, which is only procured with difficulty; exotic buccardia of Senegal; fragile white bivalve shells, which a breath might shatter like a soap-bubble; several varieties of the aspirgillum of Java, a kind of calcareous tube, edged with leafy folds, and much debated by amateurs; a whole series of trochi, some a greenish-yellow, found in the American seas, others a reddish-brown, natives of Australian waters; others from the Gulf of Mexico, remarkable for their imbricated shell; stellari found in the Southern Seas; and last, the rarest of all, the magnificent spur of New Zealand; and every description of delicate and fragile shells to which science has given appropriate names.
-- Then he began his description in these words:"Here, M. Aronnax, are the several dimensions of the boat you are in.
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