grey是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 灰色的 n. 灰色，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：
-- Then, the grey water of both began to be ghostly in the light, and the eyes of the stone faces of the chateau were opened.
-- When the foremost billows rolled past, bear-ing the prison officers with them, and threatening them all with instant death if any secret nook remained undisclosed, Defarge laid his strong hand on the breast of one of these men a man with a grey head, who had a lighted torch in his hand separated him from the rest, and got him be-tween himself and the wall.
-- In the howling universe of passion and contention that seemed to encompass this grim old officer conspicuous in his grey coat and red decoration, there was but one quite steady figure, and that was a woman's.
-- 'I hope, sir,' pleaded the abashed Mr. Cruncher, 'that a gentleman like yourself wot I've had the honour of odd job-bing till I'm grey at it, would think twice about harming of me, even if it wos so I don't say it is, but even if it wos.
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：
-- Some persons cannot bear to touch grey paper, or they become ill; others shiver in every limb if one rub a pane of glass with a nail: I have just such a feeling on hearing you say thou to me; I feel myself as if pressed to the earth in my first situation with you.
-- She had an old grey linen apron hanging over her head and back: it was so wet, it certainly must have been raining.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Mr. Batulcar, caressing the thick grey beard which hung from his chin.
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：
-- The persons still in the tavern were a man who appeared to be an artisan, drunk, but not ex-tremely so, sitting before a pot of beer, and his companion, a huge, stout man with a grey beard, in a short full-skirted coat.
-- He had a straight-forward, sensible, soldierly face, with grey moustaches and whiskers.
-- It was a grey and heavy day, the country was exactly as he remembered it; in-deed he recalled it far more vividly in his dream than he had done in memory.
-- Wringing his hands and screaming, he rushed up to the grey-headed old man with the grey beard, who was shaking his head in disapproval.
-- He glanced with a defiant and desperate air at the porter, who without a word held out a grey folded paper sealed with bottle-wax.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How well I recollect it, on acold grey afternoon, with a dull sky, threatening rain!
-- 'No,' I said, 'I don't think-' 'In breeches and gaiters, broad-brimmed hat, grey coat, speckled choker,' said the waiter.
-- Its panelledrooms, discoloured with the dirt and smoke of a hundred years, Idare say; its decaying floors and staircase; the squeaking andscuffling of the old grey rats down in the cellars; and the dirt androttenness of the place; are things, not of many years ago, in mymind, but of the present instant.
-- Into this shop, which was low and small, and which was darkenedrather than lighted by a little window, overhung with clothes, andwas descended into by some steps, I went with a palpitating heart;which was not relieved when an ugly old man, with the lower partof his face all covered with a stubbly grey beard, rushed out of adirty den behind it, and seized me by the hair of my head.
-- I have associated it, ever since, with the sunny street ofCanterbury, dozing as it were in the hot light; and with the sight ofits old houses and gateways, and the stately, grey cathedral, withthe rooks sailing round the towers.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The other was spotted, grey and white.
-- George, the elder, exhibited an ebony-tipped nose, surrounded by a narrow margin of pink flesh, and a coat marked in random splotches approximating in colour to white and slaty grey; but the grey, after years of sun and rain, had been scorched and washed out of the more prominent locks, leaving them of a reddish-brown, as if the blue component of the grey had faded, like the indigo from the same kind of colour in Turner's pictures.
-- This aged man was now sitting opposite the fire, his frosty white hair and beard overgrowing his gnarled figure like the grey moss and lichen upon a leafless apple-tree.
-- The fact that four centuries had neither proved it to be founded on a mistake, inspired any hatred of its purpose, nor given rise to any reaction that had battered it down, invested this simple grey effort of old minds with a repose, if not a grandeur, which a too curious reflection was apt to disturb in its ecclesiastical and military compeers.
-- He was buttoning on a heavy grey overcoat of Noachian cut, with cape and high collar, the latter being erect and rigid, like a girdling wall, and nearly reaching to the verge of a travelling cap which was pulled down over his ears.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He appeared about fifty years of age, but with an aspect expres-sive of the greatest benevolence; a few grey hairs covered his temples, but those at the back of his head were nearly black.
-- Cursed, cursed be the fiend that brought misery on his grey hairs and doomed him to waste in wretchedness!
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