flower是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 花； 精华， 精粹， 精英； 盛时vi. 开花，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A widow had to wear hideous black dresses without even a touch of braid to enliven them, no flower or ribbon orlace or even jewelry, except onyx mourning brooches or necklaces made from the deceased's hair.
-- Home!The sprawling white house with fluttering white curtains at the windows, the thick clover on the lawn withthe bees busy in it, the little black boy on the front steps shooing the ducks and turkeys from the flower beds, theserene red fields and the miles and miles of cotton turning white in the sun!Home!
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.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she saw Jorindel she was very angry, and screamed with rage; but she could not come within two yards of him, for the flower he held in his hand was his safeguard.
-- Then the maiden changed her-self into a beautiful flower which stood in the midst of a briar hedge, and her sweetheart Roland into a fiddler.
-- It was not long before the witch came striding up towards them, and said to the musician: 'Dear musician, may I pluck that beautiful flower for myself?'
-- As she was hastily creeping into the hedge and was just going to pluck the flower, knowing per-fectly well who the flower was, he began to play, and whether she would or not, she was forced to dance, for it was a magi-cal dance.
-- The shepherd did as she bade him, and next morning just as day dawned, he saw the chest open, and the flower come out.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Josephine Sleary, in her celebrated graceful Equestrian Tyrolean Flower Act, was then announced by a new clown (who humorously said Cauliflower Act), and Mr. Sleary appeared, leading her in.
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：
-- She was to be content to weave a steady life with him, all one fabric, but perhaps brocaded with the occasional flower of an adventure.
-- It killed, he said to himself, the real flower of the intimacy between him and her.
-- The fine flower of their intimacy was to her rather like an orchid, a bulb stuck parasitic on her tree of life, and pro-ducing, to her eyes, a rather shabby flower.
-- It was cold on this hillside, and not a flower in the darkness of larches.
-- And she pushed a campion flower in his moustache, where it stuck, dangling under his nose.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In course of time, and in the very self-same course of time, the Father of the Marshalsea gradually developed a new flower of character.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meg knew Sallie and was at her ease very soon, but Jo, who didn't care much for girls or girlish gossip, stood about, with her back carefully against the wall, and felt as much out of place as a colt in a flower garden.
-- Gardening, walks, rows on the river, and flower hunts employed the fine days, and for rainy ones, they had house diversions, some old, some new, all more or less original.
-- Knights and ladies, elves and pages, monks and flower girls, all mingled gaily in the dance.
-- Quite flushed with excitement were their ruddy fac-es, as they swung in the wind, whispering to one another what they had seen, for some peeped in at the dining room windows where the feast was spread, some climbed up to nod and smile at the sisters as they dressed the bride, others waved a welcome to those who came and went on various errands in garden, porch, and hall, and all, from the rosiest full-blown flower to the palest baby bud, offered their trib-ute of beauty and fragrance to the gentle mistress who had loved and tended them so long.
-- Amy is with truth considered 'the flower of the family', for at sixteen she has the air and bearing of a full-grown woman, not beautiful, but possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You meet them on the Line in time for the full flower of the Equatorial feeding season, having just returned, perhaps, from spending the summer in the Northern seas, and so cheating summer of all unpleasant weariness and warmth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After another fortnight, when the fine warm weather had fairly begun, and every tree and flower was putting forth its young leaves and rich blossoms, they made preparations for quitting the house at Chertsey, for some months.
-- Then, he had his own lesson for the next day to prepare; and at this, he would work hard, in a little room which looked into the garden, till evening came slowly on, when the ladies would walk out again, and he with them: listening with such pleasure to all they said: and so happy if they wanted a flower that he could climb to reach, or had forgotten anything he could run to fetch: that he could never be quick enough about it.
-- 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.
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