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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This token was a grey and yellow garment worn and patched, an ill-omened rag thrown down at the foot of a tree.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her eyes were grey and wore a very curious expression at times.
-- The ex-pression of her grey eyes was merry and gentle, when it was not, as lately, too full of thought and anxiety.
-- Or perhaps the one about his grey horse that talked?
-- He was a tall, grey old man a terrible-looking old gentleman.
-- My queen, let me get into the fire after it say the word-I'll put my whole grey head into the fire for it!I have a poor lame wife and thirteen children.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Forthwith she rose as it were a grey mist out of the waves, sat down before him as he stood weeping, caressed him with her hand, and said, 'My son, why are you weeping?
-- He hung his bow over his shoulder, and as an overall he wore the skin of a grey wolf, while on his head he set a cap of ferret skin.
-- As the flakes that fall thick upon a winter's day, when Jove is minded to snow and to display these his arrows to mankind he lulls the wind to rest, and snows hour after hour till he has buried the tops of the high moun-tains, the headlands that jut into the sea, the grassy plains, and the tilled fields of men; the snow lies deep upon the forelands, and havens of the grey sea, but the waves as they come rolling in stay it that it can come no further, though all else is wrapped as with a mantle, so heavy are the heav-ens with snow even thus thickly did the stones fall on one side and on the other, some thrown at the Trojans, and some by the Trojans at the Achaeans; and the whole wall was in an uproar.
-- Neptune on the other hand went about among the Argives to incite them, having come up from the grey sea in secret, for he was grieved at seeing them van-quished by the Trojans, and was furiously angry with Jove.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I assert, then, that in the wondrous bodily whiteness of the bird chiefly lurks the secret of the spell; a truth the more evinced in this, that by a solecism of terms there are birds called grey albatrosses; and these I have frequently seen, but never with such emotions as when I beheld the Antarctic fowl.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The man who growled out these words, was a stoutly-built fellow of about five-and-thirty, in a black velveteen coat, very soiled drab breeches, lace-up half boots, and grey cotton stockings which inclosed a bulky pair of legs, with large swelling calves;--the kind of legs, which in such costume, always look in an unfinished and incomplete state without a set of fetters to garnish them.
-- We behold, with throbbing bosoms, the heroine in the grasp of a proud and ruthless baron: her virtue and her life alike in danger, drawing forth her dagger to preserve the one at the cost of the other; and just as our expectations are wrought up to the highest pitch, a whistle is heard, and we are straightway transported to the great hall of the castle; where a grey -headed seneschal sings a funny chorus with a funnier body of vassals, who are free of all sorts of places, from church vaults to palaces, and roam about in company, carolling perpetually.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first was this: our ship making her course towards the Canary Islands, or rather between those islands and the Af-rican shore, was surprised in the grey of the morning by a Turkish rover of Sallee, who gave chase to us with all the sail she could make.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It exactly answers my idea of a fine country, because it unites beauty with utility and I dare say it is a picturesque one too, because you admire it; I can easily believe it to be full of rocks and promontories, grey moss and brush wood, but these are all lost on me.
-- Mrs. Taylor told me of it half an hour ago, and she was told it by a particular friend of Miss Grey herself, else I am sure I should not have believed it; and I was almost ready to sink as it was.
-- Well, it is the oddest thing to me, that a man should use such a pretty girl so ill!But when there is plenty of money on one side, and next to none on the other, Lord bless you!they care no more about such things! ""The lady then Miss Grey I think you called her is very rich?"
-- "Do you know what kind of a girl Miss Grey is?
-- "I never heard any harm of her; indeed I hardly ever heard her mentioned; except that Mrs. Taylor did say this morning, that one day Miss Walker hinted to her, that she believed Mr. and Mrs. Ellison would not be sorry to have Miss Grey married, for she and Mrs. Ellison could never agree.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Flush, colourful cheeks, a light moustache, a grey fedora hat.
-- The whole suit was rather tight-fitting, and was finished off with heavy-soled tan shoes, highly polished, and the grey fedora hat.
-- When she came within a score of feet of the desired goal, she saw through the window a young man in a grey checked suit.
-- In the drag of such a grey day the secret voice would reassert itself, feebly and more feebly.
-- Carrie had thought of going for a walk, and had put on a light grey woollen dress with a jaunty double-breasted jacket.
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