outline是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 提纲; 外形, 轮廓, 略图; vt. 概述, 概括; 描…外形, 描…轮廊，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：
-- The outline of the mountains was wholly altered, and the Pampas guides would have sought vainly for the accustomed landmarks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For as its belt sparkled and glittered now in one part and now in an-other, and what was light one instant, at another time was dark, so the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness: be-ing now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a body: of which dissolving parts, no outline would be visible in the dense gloom wherein they melted away.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among these papers lay the necessary evidence and a rough outline of the speech he intended to make.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her head and neck, shoulders, ears, arms, hands, and toes were loaded down with jewels and gems with bracelets, earrings, and rings; while a tunic bordered with gold, and covered with a light muslin robe, betrayed the outline of her form.
-- Her narrow and supple waist, which a hand may clasp around, sets forth the outline of her rounded figure and the beauty of her bosom, where youth in its flower displays the wealth of its treasures; and beneath the silken folds of her tunic she seems to have been modelled in pure silver by the godlike hand of Vicvarcarma, the immortal sculptor."
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It came from the direction of a small dark object under the plantation hedge a shepherd's hut now presenting an outline to which an uninitiated person might have been puzzled to attach either meaning or use.
-- A rectangular space of light appeared in the side of the hut, and in the opening the outline of Farmer Oak's figure.
-- As the wind blows the fire inwards, the portion in flames completely disappears like melting sugar, and the outline is lost to the eye.
-- THE MALTHOUSE THE CHAT NEWSWarren's Malthouse was enclosed by an old wall inwrapped with ivy, and though not much of the exterior was visible at this hour, the character and purposes of the building were clearly enough shown by its outline upon the sky.
-- By its outline upon the colourless background, a close observer might have seen that it was small.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To begin with, the sight of the fair carefully arranged curls on the other's comely head had convinced him that his own crop was hideous; Maxime's boots, moreover, were elegant and spotless, while his own, in spite of all his care, bore some traces of his recent walk; and, finally, Maxime's overcoat fitted the outline of his figure gracefully, he looked like a pretty woman, while Eugene was wearing a black coat at half-past two.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the shadowy outline did take form.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I promised myself that I would do something for them one of these days, and formed a plan in outline for bestowing a dinner of roast-beef and plum-pudding, a pint of ale, and a gallon of condescension, upon everybody in the village.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle, turning in a westerly direction, pointed out to me a light cloud of vapor, a kind of haze, with a faint outline of land rising out of the waters.
-- The day passed away, and not the faintest outline of a shadow could be seen at the bottom of the crater.
-- The ship and its inmates, Iceland, M. Fridriksson, and the great summit of Mount Sneffels!I said to myself that, if in my position I retained the most faint and shadowy outline of a hope, it would be a sure sign of approaching delirium.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She traced the outline of her left eyebrow, and put it right.
-- He then, softening the nature of his old apprehensions as much as was possible consistently with their being made intelligible and never alluding to his mother by name, but speaking vaguely of a relation of his, confided to Mr Pancks a broad outline of the misgivings he entertained, and of the interview he had witnessed.
-- With his rapid native action, his hands made the outline of a high hook nose, pushed his eyes near together, dishevelled his hair, puffed out his upper lip to represent a thick moustache, and threw the heavy end of an ideal cloak over his shoulder.
-- Without disclosing the precise nature of the documents that had fallen into Rigaud's hands, Little Dorrit had confided the general outline of that story to Mr Meagles, to whom she had also recounted his fate.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular comprehensive classification, if only an easy outline one for the present, hereafter to be filled in all its departments by subsequent laborers.
-- In this book is an outline purporting to be a "Picture of a Physeter or Spermaceti whale, drawn by scale from one killed on the coast of Mexico, August, 1793, and hoisted on deck."
-- Of the Right Whale, the best outline pictures are in Scoresby; but they are drawn on too small a scale to convey a desirable impression.
-- For the most part, the English and American whale draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the mechanical outline of things, such as the vacant profile of the whale; which, so far as picturesqueness of effect is concerned, is about tantamount to sketching the profile of a pyramid.
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