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：
-- His companions, aroused by his voice, rushed to the poop, and gazed in silence at the coast whose outline lay on the horizon.
-- In the northeast rose a mountain about 2,300 feet high, whose sharply defined outline was exactly like the grinning face of a monkey turned toward the sky.
-- Soon they perceived the shadowy outline of the wood showing faintly through the darkness.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the butler had gone I walked over to the black window, and I looked through a blurred pane at the driving clouds and at the tossing outline of the wind-swept trees.
-- Holmes had sprung to his feet, and I saw his dark, athlet-ic outline at the door of the hut, his shoulders stooping, his head thrust forward, his face peering into the darkness.
-- As we ran towards it the vague outline hardened into a definite shape.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sleeper was covered with a white sheet; the outline of the limbs was hardly dis-tinguishable.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I looked down and saw at once the dim suggestion of their outline sketched in splashes of mud.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tree-tops rose against the luminous blue sky in inky silhouette, and all below that outline melted into one formless blackness.
-- I began to distinguish now a deeper blackness in the black, a vague outline of a hunched-up figure.
-- The island, which was of irreg-ular outline and lay low upon the wide sea, had a total area, I suppose, of seven or eight square miles.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though his person was more than usually screened by a green and fringed hunting-shirt, like that of the white man, there was no concealment to his dark, glancing, fearless eye, alike terrible and calm; the bold outline of his high, haughty features, pure in their native red; or to the dignified elevation of his receding fore-head, together with all the finest proportions of a noble head, bared to the generous scalping tuft.
-- The land had been cleared of wood for a reasonable distance around the work, but every other part of the scene lay in the green liv-ery of nature, except where the limpid water mellowed the view, or the bold rocks thrust their black and naked heads above the undulating outline of the mountain ranges.
-- Then it was he discovered that the form of Uncas vanished, and that he beheld only the dark outline of an inequality in the embankment.
-- In the height of the mountains which surround it, and in artificial accessories, it is inferior to the finest of the Swiss and Ital-ian lakes, while in outline and purity of water it is fully their equal; and in the number and disposition of its isles and is-lets much superior to them all together.
-- Although the rugged outline of mountain, to which they were steering, presented no distinctive marks to the eyes of Duncan, the Mohican entered the little haven he had selected with the confidence and accuracy of an experienced pilot.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Maurice Huret in his famous article gave an outline of Charles Strickland's life which was well calculated to whet the appetites of the inquiring.
-- With its jagged outline it is like a Monseratt of the Pacific, and you may imagine that there Polynesian knights guard with strange rites mysteries unholy for men to know.
-- And I looked up and I saw the outline of the island.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This point abutted on the shore in a grotesque outline of high granite rocks.
-- At the northern extremity of the bay the outline of the shore was continued to a great distance in a wider curve.
-- The lake was curved at the north, which contrasted with the sharp outline of its lower part.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a form between it and her, the outline strongly developed against the light, which caused her to stop abruptly.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having made an outline of a speech, which he was to deliver to the peasants the following day, Nekhludoff went to the manager's house, and after further deliberating upon the proper disposition of the stock, he calmly and contentedly retired to a room prepared for him in the large building.
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