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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was nearly six o'clock, but only grey imperfect misty dawn, when we drew nigh the wharf.
-- It was one of those less lowering, but still grey and gloomy enough mornings of the transition, when with a fair wind the ship was rushing through the water with a vindictive sort of leaping and melancholy rapidity, that as I mounted to the deck at the call of the forenoon watch, so soon as I levelled my glance towards the taffrail, foreboding shivers ran over me.
-- Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish.
-- Yet, this wild hint seemed inferentially negatived, by what a grey Manxman insinuated, an old sepulchral man, who, having never before sailed out of Nantucket, had never ere this laid eye upon wild Ahab.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This time the sea looked a dark grey colour, and was overspread with curling waves and the ridges of foam as he cried out: 'O man of the sea!
-- Then they took away her fine clothes, and gave her an old grey frock to put on, and laughed at her, and turned her into the kitchen.
-- For she had run as quickly as she could through the pigeon-house and on to the hazel-tree, and had there taken off her beautiful clothes, and put them beneath the tree, that the bird might carry them away, and had lain down again amid the ashes in her little grey frock.
-- And when they came back into the kitchen, there lay Ashputtel among the ashes; for she had slipped down on the other side of the tree, and carried her beautiful clothes back to the bird at the hazel-tree, and then put on her little grey frock.
-- There they saw a little grey old man sitting at a table; and they called to him once or twice, but he did not hear: however, they called a third time, and then he rose and came out to them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the first instance we crossed some narrow streets, where we met numerous groups of galley slaves, with particolored trousers, grey and yellow, working under the orders and the sticks of severe taskmasters, and finally reached the Vor-Frelser's-Kirk.
-- The rugged summits of the rocky hills were dimly visible on the edge of the horizon, through the misty fogs; every now and then some heavy flakes of snow showed conspicuous in the morning light, while certain lofty and pointed rocks were first lost in the grey low clouds, their summits clearly visible above, like jagged reefs rising from a troublous sea.
-- Now and then we watched a falcon soaring in the grey and misty air, taking his flight towards warmer and sunnier regions.
-- From whence we started it was impossible to make out the real outlines of the peak against the grey field of sky.
-- We were trampling our way over heavy rocks of dark grey color, which, while cooling, had been moulded into six-sided prisms.
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：
-- Only a dank ride in a motor-car up a dark, damp drive, burrow-ing through gloomy trees, out to the slope of the park where grey damp sheep were feeding, to the knoll where the house spread its dark brown facade, and the housekeeper and her husband were hovering, like unsure tenants on the face of the earth, ready to stammer a welcome.
-- Grey and clammy and silent, even from the shuffling of the collieries, for the pits were working short time, and today they were stopped altogether.
-- He was in trousers and flannel shirt and a grey tie, his hair soft and damp, his face rather pale and worn-looking.
-- 'Connie's looking awfully unwell,' she said in her soft voice, fixing him with her beautiful, glowering grey eyes.
-- She looked so handsome and so young, and her grey eyes were sometimes marvellous.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With her cold grey eyes and her cold grey hair, and her immovable face, as stiff as the folds of her stony head-dress, her being beyond the reach of the seasons seemed but a fit sequence to her being beyond the reach of all changing emotions.
-- But her grey hair was not more immovable in its two folds, than were her firm lips.
-- A piece of red cloth with which that phantom had been stiffened in its lifetime was now laid bare, and poked itself up, at the back of the old man's neck, into a confusion of grey hair and rusty stock and buckle which altogether nearly poked his hat off.
-- The old man stopped and looked round, with the expression in his weak grey eyes of one whose thoughts had been far off, and who was a little dull of hearing also.
-- 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.
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