curtain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 窗帘， 门帘； 幕(布) ； 结束vt遮掩，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：
-- Until then, though no one was ever presented to her consciousness save the woman and myself, one or other of them had always jealously sat behind the curtain at the head of the bed when I was there.
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：
-- One night the stranger awoke he slept with the doors of the balcony open the curtain before it was raised by the wind, and he thought that a strange lustre came from the opposite neighbor's house; all the flowers shone like flames, in the most beautiful colors, and in the midst of the flow-ers stood a slender, graceful maiden it was as if she also shone; the light really hurt his eyes.
-- Yes!if anyone had paid particu-lar attention to it, they would have seen, quite distinctly, that the shadow went in through the half-open balcony-door of their opposite neighbor, just as the stranger went into his own room, and let the long curtain fall down after him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Either I receive a humiliating refusal or consent.... Well, I have received his consent, say..." Anna was at that moment at the furthest end of the room, and she stopped there, doing something to the curtain at the window.
-- The first time he passed Vronsky's compartment he noticed that the curtain was drawn over the window; but as he passed it the second time he saw the old countess at the window.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole northern and eastern horizon was bounded by the immense semi-circular curtain which is formed by the southern portion of the Rocky Mountains, the highest being Laramie Peak.
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：
-- 'It's in the houses of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness,' Raskolnikov thought again, and he stole a curious glance at the cotton curtain over the door leading into another tiny room, in which stood the old woman's bed and chest of drawers and into which he had never looked before.
-- The old woman fumbled in her pocket for her keys, and disappeared behind the curtain into the other room.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No one has ever raised that curtain since.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A rick-cloth was brought, and they hung it like a curtain across the channel.
-- They consisted in about equal proportions of gnarled and flexuous forms, the former being the men, the latter the women, who wore tilt bonnets covered with nankeen, which hung in a curtain upon their shoulders.
-- The shutters were not closed, nor was any blind or curtain drawn over the window, neither robbery nor observation being a contingency which could do much injury to the occupant of the domicile.
-- He hastily thrust aside the curtain dividing his own little dressing space from that of the manager and proprietor, who now appeared as the individual called Tom King as far down as his waist, and as the aforesaid respectable manager thence to his toes.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So by the end of the month of November 1819, at the time when the curtain rises on this drama, every one in the house had come to have a very decided opinion as to the poor old man.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more.
-- Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wife liked the thought; so they left a light burning, and hid themselves in a corner of the room, behind a curtain that was hung up there, and watched what would happen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That is to say, he saw that some one lay there, and he knew too well it must be she; but Rachael's hands had put a curtain up, so that she was screened from his eyes.
-- He thought he saw the curtain move.
-- Then the curtain moved more perceptibly, and the woman in the bed put it back, and sat up.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The atmosphere is being gradually loaded with vapors, which carry with them the electricity formed by the constant evaporation of the saline waters; the clouds are slowly but sensibly falling towards the sea, and are assuming a dark-olive texture; the electric rays can scarcely pierce through the opaque curtain which has fallen like a drop scene before this wondrous theater, on the stage of which another and terrible drama is soon to be enacted.
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：
-- But he did not see Mrs Bolton come to the window and draw back the old curtain of dark-blue silk, and stand herself in the dark room, looking out on the half-dark of the approaching day, looking for the longed-for dawn, waiting, waiting for Clifford to be really reassured that it was daybreak.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The night was dark; and the prison lamps in the yard, and the candles in the prison windows faintly shining behind many sorts of wry old curtain and blind, had not the air of making it lighter.
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