color是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 颜色； 颜料； 肤色v. 给…着色，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 head was small and the body flattened, the legs were long and slender, the skin fine, and the hair the color of cafe au lait.
-- Both in form and color the animal was of perfect beauty.
-- On the banks and bushes about these, king-wrens were hopping about and larks singing joyously in concert with the tangaras, the rivals in color of the brilliant humming birds.
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：
-- The color of the Indian, the writer believes, is peculiar to himself, and while his cheek-bones have a very striking in-dication of a Tartar origin, his eyes have not.
-- Her complexion was not brown, but it rather appeared charged with the color of the rich blood, that seemed ready to burst its bounds.
-- 'I am not a prejudiced man, nor one who vaunts himself on his natural privileges, though the worst enemy I have on earth, and he is an Iroquois, daren't deny that I am genuine white,' the scout replied, surveying, with secret satisfaction, the faded color of his bony and sinewy hand, 'and I am will-ing to own that my people have many ways, of which, as an honest man, I can't approve.
-- He turned and beheld the speaker, whose color had changed to a deadly paleness, and whose lips quivered, gazing after him, with an expression of interest which immediately recalled him to her side.
-- The wound of David had dyed the leaves of sassafras with a color that the native well knew as anticipating the season.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The color was returning to his cheeks, which till now had been as pale as death.
-- From thence they clearly saw smoke of a yellowish color rising in the air.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The unexpected spectacle restored some color to my pallid cheeks.
-- The leaves were wholly devoid of verdure, and the flowers, so numerous during the Tertiary period which gave them birth, were without color and without perfume, something like paper discolored by long exposure to the atmosphere.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo saw her color rise and was down upon her in a minute.
-- 'What color do you like best?'
-- Jo couldn't help smiling at the important air which Meg had unconsciously assumed and which was as becoming as the pretty color varying in her cheeks.
-- 'You won't give anyone a chance,' said Laurie, with a sidelong glance and a little more color than before in his sunburned face.
-- There is a fresh color in her brown cheeks, a soft shine in her eyes, and only gentle words fall from her sharp tongue today.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There warn't no color in his face, where his face showed; it was white; not like another man's white, but a white to make a body sick, a white to make a body's flesh crawl a tree-toad white, a fish-belly white.
-- Miss Sophia she turned pale, but the color come back when she found the man warn't hurt.
-- And everybody runs to see, and she snatches off my hat, and out comes the bread and what was left of the butter, and she grabbed me, and hugged me, and says: 'Oh, what a turn you did give me!and how glad and grate-ful I am it ain't no worse; for luck's against us, and it never rains but it pours, and when I see that truck I thought we'd lost you, for I knowed by the color and all it was just like your brains would be if Dear, dear, whyd'nt you TELL me that was what you'd been down there for, I wouldn't a cared.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His name was Geppetto, but to the boys of the neighborhood he was Polendina,* on account of the wig he always wore which was just the color of yellow corn.
-- On hearing himself called Polendina, Mastro Geppetto turned the color of a red pepper and, facing the carpenter, said to him angrily: "Why do you insult me?"
-- Dawn was breaking when, without any warning whatsoever, Pinocchio found his path barred by a deep pool full of water the color of muddy coffee.
-- Her coat was not white or black or brown as that of any other goat, but azure, a deep brilliant color that reminded one of the hair of the lovely maiden.
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