silk是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 丝, 绸,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At the top, under a white sheet, was a coat of red bro-cade lined with hareskin; under it was a silk dress, then a shawl and it seemed as though there was nothing below but clothes.
-- 'Ich danke,' said the latter, and softly, with a rustle of silk she sank into the chair.
-- She forgot her fourth-hand, gaudy silk dress, so unseemly here with its ridiculous long train, and her im-mense crinoline that filled up the whole doorway, and her light-coloured shoes, and the parasol she brought with her, though it was no use at night, and the absurd round straw hat with its flaring flame-coloured feather.
-- She came in very smart in a new green silk dress with a long train.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She took outan old black silk handkerchief and wiped her eyes; but instead ofputting it in her pocket, kept it out, and wiped them again, and stillkept it out, ready for use.
-- 255My passion takes away my appetite, and makes me wear mynewest silk neckerchief continually.
-- The proverbsays, "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear."
-- At all events his face was tied up in a black silk handkerchief,which, with his hat perched on the top of it, was far fromimproving his appearance.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then this small thesmothete stepped from the table, and surged out of the hall, her black silk dress licking up a few straws and dragging them along with a scratching noise upon the floor.
-- I am nearly stifled inside this silk cage."
-- "Ay, and she wore a beautiful gold-colour silk gown, trimmed with black lace, that would have stood alone 'ithout legs inside if required.
-- Now, fetch my black silk dress, and see how it sits upon me."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Michonneau, that elderly young lady, screened her weak eyes from the daylight by a soiled green silk shade with a rim of brass, an object fit to scare away the Angel of Pity himself.
-- Vauquer (not yet dressed) heard the rustle of a silk dress and a young woman's light footstep on the stair; some one was going to Goriot's room.
-- He had not dined at the Maison Vauquer; the boarders probably would think that he would walk home at daybreak from the dance, as he had done sometimes on former occasions, after a fete at the Prado, or a ball at the Odeon, splashing his silk stockings thereby, and ruining his pumps.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Their beauty she accepted as casually asthe air she breathed and the water she drank, for she had never consciously seen beauty in anything bat women's faces,horses, silk dresses and like tangible things.
-- In spite of her choked-back tears, Scarlett thrilled to the never-failing magic of her mother's touch, to the faintfragrance of lemon verbena sachet that came from her rustling silk dress.
-- She had never had to sew tiny rows of silk ruffles in thelining of her basques, as most sixteen-year-old girls did, to give their figures the desired curves and fullness.
-- "I don't know why you're so happy this morning," said Suellen crossly, for the thought still rankled in her mindthat she would look far better in Scarlett's green silk dancing frock than its rightful owner would.
-- Today, dressed in dull black silk over unfashionably narrow hoops, she still looked as though in her habit, for thedress was as severely tailored as her riding costume and the small black hat with Ha long black plume perched overone warm, twinkling, brown eye was a replica of the battered old hat she used for hunting.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I glanced down at the foot from which the shoe was absent, and saw that the silk stocking on it, once white, now yellow, had been trodden ragged.
-- He always carried (I have not yet mentioned it, I think) a pocket-handkerchief of rich silk and of imposing proportions, which was of great value to him in his profession.
-- The whole of the Danish nobility were in attendance; consisting of a noble boy in the wash-leather boots of a gigantic ancestor, a venerable Peer with a dirty face who seemed to have risen from the people late in life, and the Danish chivalry with a comb in its hair and a pair of white silk legs, and presenting on the whole a feminine appearance.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Bring with you a skein of silk every time that you come, and I will weave a ladder with it, and when that is ready I will descend, and you will take me on your horse.'
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