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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The man was covered up warm, and had drawn the white curtain at his head, so that he could be only heard, not seen.
-- The curtain shook next moment, and a lady, raising it with a heavily ringed hand, dropped it behind her again as she entered.
-- The windows are blocked up where any one could look out, and the walls have been all drawn over with chalk and charcoal by others who have lived there before oh, I should think, for years!There is a curtain more dust-coloured than red, which divides it, and the part behind the curtain makes the private sitting-room.
-- As often as the little bell rang, he started and peeped out secretly, with the end of the little curtain in his hand and the rest before his face; evidently not at all satisfied but that the man he dreaded had tracked him through all his doublings and turnings, with the certainty of a terrible bloodhound.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the curtain fell, and the audience reposed and ate candy while discussing the merits of the play.
-- A good deal of hammering went on before the curtain rose again, but when it became evident what a masterpiece of stage carpentery had been got up, no one murmured at the delay.
-- A tower rose to the ceiling, halfway up appeared a window with a lamp burning in it, and behind the white curtain appeared Zara in a lovely blue and silver dress, waiting for Roderigo.
-- He consents without a mur-mur, all join in a joyful chorus, and the curtain falls upon the lovers kneeling to receive Don Pedro's blessing in atti-tudes of the most romantic grace.
-- I beg your pardon for being so rude, but sometimes you forget to put down the curtain at the window where the flowers are.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After musing for some minutes, the old gentleman walked, with the same meditative f ace, into a back anteroom opening from the yard; and there, retiring into a corner, called up before his mind's eye a vast amphitheatre of faces over which a dusky curtain had hung for many years.
-- The curtain at the bed's head was hastily drawn back, and a motherly old lady, very neatly and precisely dressed, rose as she undrew it, from an arm-chair close by, in which she had been sitting at needle-work.
-- The honest gentleman held the curtain in his hand, and looked on, for a minute or so, in silence.
-- And there was one looker-on, who remained with eyes fixed upon the spot where the carriage had disappeared, long after it was many miles away; for, behind the white curtain which had shrouded her from view when Harry raised his eyes towards the window, sat Rose herself.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Look at him any time within the half hour before the curtain was up, he was a member of an eminent group--a rounded company of five or more whose stout figures, large white bosoms, and shining pins bespoke the character of their success.
-- Chapter XIX AN HOUR IN ELFLAND--A CLAMOUR HALF HEARD At last the curtain was ready to go up.
-- It was heightened for him by the applause of the audience as the curtain descended and the fact that it was Carrie.
-- As the curtain for the next act arose, Drouet came back.
-- "Made quite a curtain address at Hooley's last night.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Boggs rode up before the biggest store in town, and bent his head down so he could see under the curtain of the aw-ning and yells: 'Come out here, Sherburn!Come out and meet the man you've swindled.
-- Chapter XXIII ELL, all day him and the king was hard at it, rigging Wup a stage and a curtain and a row of candles for foot-lights; and that night the house was jam full of men in no time.
-- When the place couldn't hold no more, the duke he quit tending door and went around the back way and come on to the stage and stood up before the curtain and made a little speech, and praised up this tragedy, and said it was the most thrillingest one that ever was; and so he went on a- bragging about the tragedy, and about Edmund Kean the Elder, which was to play the main principal part in it; and at last when he'd got everybody's expecta- tions up high enough, he rolled up the curtain, and the next minute the king come a-prancing out on all fours, naked; and he was painted all over, ring- streaked-and-striped, all sorts of col-ors, as splendid as a rainbow.
-- Then the duke he lets the curtain down, and bows to the people, and says the great tragedy will be per- formed only two nights more, on accounts of pressing London engage-ments, where the seats is all sold already for it in Drury Lane; and then he makes them another bow, and says if he has succeeded in pleasing them and instructing them, he will be deeply obleeged if they will mention it to their friends and get them to come and see it.
-- 'Your head's level agin, duke,' says the king; and he comes a-fumbling under the curtain two or three foot from where I was.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The curtain was up and the performance had started.
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