gown是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 长袍, 长外衣，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While his teamed friend, Mr. Stryver, mass-ing his papers before him, whispered with those who sat near, and from time to time glanced anxiously at the jury; while all the spectators moved more or less, and grouped themselves anew; while even my Lord himself arose from his seat, and slowly paced up and down his platform, not unattended by a suspicion in the minds of the audience that his state was feverish; this one man sat leaning back, with his torn gown half off him, his untidy wig put on just as it had happened to fight on his head after its removal, his hands in his pockets, and his eyes on the ceiling as they had been all day.
-- He still had his wig and gown on, and he said, squar-ing himself at his late client to that degree that he squeezed the innocent Mr. Lorry clean out of the group: 'I am glad to have brought you off with honour, Mr. Darnay.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She puts it on, ties a saffron-colored kerchief round her neck, and then the gown looks whiter.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole gown was trimmed with Venetian guipure.
-- she added, giving Vronsky one finger of the hand in which she held her fan, and with a shrug of her shoulders she twitched down the bodice of her gown that had worked up, so as to be duly naked as she moved forward towards the footlights into the light of the gas, and the sight of all eyes.
-- Chapter 27 Anna was upstairs, standing before the looking glass, and, with Annushka's assistance, pinning the last ribbon on her gown when she heard carriage wheels crunching the gravel at the entrance.
-- On meeting Betsy coming towards her in a white gown that struck her by its elegance, Anna smiled at her just as she always did.
-- Her cheeks were flushed crimson, her eyes glittered, her little white hands thrust out from the sleeves of her dressing gown were playing with the quilt, twisting it about.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She also made beds; she showed more intelligence than the Twyford men about disinfecting herself; and as she bustled about the rusty kitchen, in a gingham gown she had borrowed from a maid, she so disturbed Martin that he forgot to be gruff.
-- "BUT"--Martin said to himself, as he sat feeling naked and lost and homeless, in the dressing- gown of gold dragon-flies on black silk which she had bought for him in Paris--"but if it'd been Leora instead of Joyce--Leora would've known Clif was a crook, and she'd've accepted it as a fact.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know it was a goodsqueeze, because, being very plump, whenever she made any littleexertion after she was dressed, some of the buttons on the back ofher gown flew off.
-- When thetable was cleared, Janet assisted her to arrange her hair, to put onher nightcap, which was of a smarter construction than usual ('incase of fire,' my aunt said), and to fold her gown back over herknees, these being her usual preparations for warming herselfbefore going to bed.
-- I was castingmy eyes with increasing complacency over these and similarobjects, when hasty footsteps were heard in the room outside, andMr. Spenlow, in a black gown trimmed with white fur, camehurrying in, taking off his hat as he came.
-- I observed, however,that Mr. Spenlow's proctorial gown and stiff cravat took Peggottydown a little, and inspired her with a greater reverence for the manwho was gradually becoming more and more etherealised in myeyes every day, and about whom a reflected radiance seemed tome to beam when he sat erect in Court among his papers, like alittle lighthouse in a sea of stationery.
-- Whenit was ready for her, she was ready for it, with her nightcap on, andthe skirt of her gown turned back on her knees.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'She had set out from Mrs. Goddard's half an hour ago she had been afraid it would rain she had been afraid it would pour down every moment but she thought she might get to Hartfield first she had hurried on as fast as possible; but then, as she was passing by the house where a young woman was making up a gown for her, she thought she would just step in and see how it went on; and though she did not seem to stay half a moment there, soon after she came out it began to rain, and she did not know what to do; so she ran on directly, as fast as she could, and took shelter at Ford's.
-- Only my pattern gown is at Hartfield.
-- But then, Mrs. Goddard will want to see it. And I could take the pattern gown home any day.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The most mysterious matter connected with her absence indeed, the only thing which gives me serious alarm is that she was seen to go out of the house by Maryann with only her indoor working gown on not even a bonnet."
-- And when the sun shone upon the bright gown and his red coat my!how handsome they looked.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So that shows you, sir student, that all the time your Countess was smiling, dancing, flirting, swaying her peach-flower crowned head, with her gown gathered into her hand, her slippers were pinching her, as they say; she was thinking of her protested bills, or her lover's protested bills."
-- Rastignac turned abruptly and saw her standing before him, coquettishly dressed in a loose white cashmere gown with knots of rose-colored ribbon here and there; her hair was carelessly coiled about her head, as is the wont of Parisian women in the morning; there was a soft fragrance about her--doubtless she was fresh from a bath;--her graceful form seemed more flexible, her beauty more luxuriant.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your pink gown is lovely and suitable to your complexion, Scarlett's is tohers.
-- Her long hair was drenched in sweat and her gown stuck in wet spotsto her body.
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