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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hermione Roddice came up, in a handsome gown of white lace, trailing an enormous silk shawl blotched with great embroidered flowers, and balancing an enormous plain hat on her head.
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：
-- Her gown was dowdy and expensive.
-- Her hair, not yet very gray, was becomingly arranged, and her black gown was modish.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Half rising, he slipped his smooth, white feet into the slippers, threw a silk morning gown over his broad shoulders, and with quick and heavy stride, walked into the adjoining dressing-room, which was permeated with the artificial odors of elixirs, perfumes, cosmetics.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cut of her dress from the waist upward, both before and behind, made her figure very like a boy's kite; and I might have pronounced her gown a little too decidedly orange, and her gloves a little too intensely green.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The soldier saw them going down through the trap-door one after another, the eldest leading the way; and thinking he had no time to lose, he jumped up, put on the cloak which the old woman had given him, and followed them; but in the middle of the stairs he trod on the gown of the youngest princess, and she cried out to her sisters, 'All is not right; someone took hold of my gown.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had brought the meat home that she should have eaten herself, and was already warming it on a gridiron over the fire for her father, clad in an old grey gown and a black cap, awaiting his supper at the table.
-- 'Miss Dorrit,' said Sally, hushing the baby from side to side, and laying her chin upon the little hand as it tried to disarrange the gown again, 'came here one afternoon with a bit of writing, telling that how she wished for needlework, and asked if it would be considered any ill-conwenience in case she was to give her address here.'
-- On a wintry afternoon at twilight, Mrs Flintwinch, having been heavy all day, dreamed this dream:She thought she was in the kitchen getting the kettle ready for tea, and was warming herself with her feet upon the fender and the skirt of her gown tucked up, before the collapsed fire in the middle of the grate, bordered on either hand by a deep cold black ravine.
-- There, the table was laid for his supper, and his old grey gown was ready for him on his chair-back at the fire.
-- Not least upon the figure in the old grey gown and the black velvet cap, as it turned towards her when she opened the door of the dim room.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You won't stop, I know, as long as you can trail round in a white gown with your hair down, and wear gold-paper jewelry.
-- exclaimed Jo, finish-ing Meg's glove by scrubbing her gown with it.
-- 'I declare, it really seems like being a fine young lady, to come home from the party in a carriage and sit in my dress-ing gown wit a maid to wait on me,' said Meg, as Jo bound up her foot with arnica and brushed her hair.
-- When I think of this deggerredation, I fell that I can bear even my flat nose and purple gown with yellow skyrockets on it.'
-- With these thrill-ing words he rushed away, and flinging open the door of the mauve salon, was about to enter, when he received...' 'A stunning blow from the big Greek lexicon, which an old fel-low in a black gown fired at him,' said Ned.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, and her petticoat; I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches deep in mud, I am absolutely certain; and the gown which had been let down to hide it not doing its office.'
-- I shall send for my clothes when I get to Longbourn; but I wish you would tell Sally to mend a great slit in my worked muslin gown before they are packed up.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a helpless creature in sickness, not very handsome in a dull-coloured bath gown and his hair uncombed.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I practiced around all day to get the hang of the things, and by and by I could do pretty well in them, only Jim said I didn't walk like a girl; and he said I must quit pulling up my gown to get at my britches-pocket.
-- Besides, you know, you'll be in costume, and that makes all the difference in the world; Juliet's in a bal-cony, enjoying the moonlight before she goes to bed, and she's got on her night- gown and her ruffled nightcap.
-- But she had stopped now with a folded gown in her lap, and had her face in her hands, crying.
-- I'll hook a gown from Aunt Sally.'
-- I'll stuff Jim's clothes full of straw and lay it on his bed to represent his mother in dis- guise, and Jim 'll take the nigger woman's gown off of me and wear it, and we'll all evade together.
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