dusty是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 沾满灰尘的，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Matthew marked on the dusty floor with his whip-handle[Illustration: The word J A M E S appears here with the "J", "E", and "S" printed backwards]"And how Farmer James would cuss, and call thee a fool, wouldn't he, Joseph, when 'a seed his name looking so inside-out-like?"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A mantle of ivy conceals the bricks and attracts the eyes of passers-by to an effect which is picturesque in Paris, for each of the walls is covered with trellised vines that yield a scanty dusty crop of fruit, and furnish besides a subject of conversation for Mme.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they had rounded the curve of the dusty road that hid them from Tara, Brent drew his horse to a stop undera clump of dogwood.
-- Yesterday she had worked until she was worn out in the dusty old bam of an Armory draping yellowand pink and green cheesecloth on the booths that lined the walls.
-- How would they all get into the hall!It had seemed such a large place a few minutes before, and now it waspacked, warm with summer-night odors of sachet and cologne water and hair pomade and burning bayberry candles,fragrant with flowers, faintly dusty as many feet trod the old drill floors.
-- There wereso many men jolting down this dark, dusty road whom she knew so well, so many men dying here before her eyes,mosquitoes and gnats swarming their bloody faces, men with whom she had danced and laughed, for whom she hadplayed music and sung songs, teased, comforted and loved a little.
-- Thirty days of siege!The city ringedwith red-clay rifle pits, the monotonous booming of cannon that never rested, the long lines of ambulances and oxcarts dripping blood down the dusty streets toward the hospitals, the overworked burial squads dragging out men whenthey were hardly cold and dumping them like so many logs in endless rows of shallow ditches.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now the reality was in my hold, I only felt that I was dusty with the dust of small-coal, and that I had a weight upon my daily remembrance to which the anvil was a feather.
-- I wondered whether the two swollen faces were of Mr. Jaggers's family, and, if he were so unfortunate as to have had a pair of such ill-looking relations, why he stuck them on that dusty perch for the blacks and flies to settle on, instead of giving them a place at home.
-- I thought the windows of the sets of chambers into which those houses were divided were in every stage of dilapidated blind and curtain, crippled flower-pot, cracked glass, dusty decay, and miserable makeshift; while To Let, To Let, To Let, glared at me from empty rooms, as if no new wretches ever came there, and the vengeance of the soul of Barnard were being slowly appeased by the gradual suicide of the present occupants and their unholy interment under the gravel.
-- At last, the old woman and the niece came in,--the latter with a head not easily distinguishable from her dusty broom,--and testified surprise at sight of me and the fire.
-- Mr. Wopsle, conceding his fin with a gracious dignity, was immediately shoved into a dusty corner, while everybody danced a hornpipe; and from that corner, surveying the public with a discontented eye, became aware of me.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the evening when she was tired, she had no bed to lie down on, but was made to lie by the hearth among the ashes; and as this, of course, made her al-200 Grimms' Fairy Talesways dusty and dirty, they called her Ashputtel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The streets were hot and dusty on the summer day, and the sun was so bright that it even shone through the heavy vapour drooping over Coketown, and could not be looked at steadily.
-- Did he see himself, a white-haired decrepit man, bending his hitherto inflexible theories to appointed circumstances; making his facts and figures subservient to Faith, Hope, and Charity; and no longer trying to grind that Heavenly trio in his dusty little mills?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Other bodies were found, as we trod the dusty plain, and my uncle was able to choose the most marvelous of these specimens in order to convince the most incredulous.
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：
-- The hazel thicket was a lace-work, of half-open leaves, and the last dusty perpendicular of the catkins.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Far away the dusty vines overhanging wayside cottages, and the monotonous wayside avenues of parched trees without shade, drooped beneath the stare of earth and sky.
-- The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the heavens, and the fire-flies mimicked them in the lower air, as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of beings; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in repose and so deep a hush was on the sea, that it scarcely whispered of the time when it shall give up its dead.
-- And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another, move all we restless travellers through the pilgrimage of life.
-- Strange, if the little sick-room light were in effect a watch-light, burning in that place every night until an appointed event should be watched out!Which of the vast multitude of travellers, under the sun and the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another; which of the host may, with no suspicion of the journey's end, be travelling surely hither?
-- Presently he changed the subject of his lamentations, and clasping his hands about her as she embraced him, cried, O Amy, his motherless, forlorn child!O the days that he had seen her careful and laborious for him!Then he reverted to himself, and weakly told her how much better she would have loved him if she had known him in his vanished character, and how he would have married her to a gentleman who should have been proud of her as his daughter, and how (at which he cried again) she should first have ridden at his fatherly side on her own horse, and how the crowd (by which he meant in effect the people who had given him the twelve shillings he then had in his pocket) should have trudged the dusty roads respectfully.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dim, dusty room, with the busts staring down from the tall bookcases, the cozy chairs, the globes, and best of all, the wilderness of books in which she could wander where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
-- exclaimed Meg, coming home one warm day to find Jo laid upon the sofa in an unusual state of exhaustion, while Beth took off her dusty boots, and Amy made lemon-ade for the refreshment of the whole party.
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