cloak是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 斗蓬， 披风； 掩饰， 幌子vt. 掩盖， 掩饰，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But there are other scoundrels who masquerade under the cloak of the blockader for their own selfish gains, and Icall down the just wrath and vengeance of an embattled people, fighting in the justest of Causes, on these humanvultures who bring in satins and laces when our men are dying for want of quinine, who load their boats with tea andwines when our heroes are writhing for lack of morphia.
-- Nor can I masquerade in a cloak of romance and patriotism, no matter how convenient it might be.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "When he come to the grave," said our conductor, "he showed his cloak beautiful.
-- Poor dear Joe, entangled in a little black cloak tied in a large bow under his chin, was seated apart at the upper end of the room; where, as chief mourner, he had evidently been stationed by Trabb.
-- Standing at this table, I became conscious of the servile Pumblechook in a black cloak and several yards of hatband, who was alternately stuffing himself, and making obsequious movements to catch my attention.
-- Still, in the same moment, I saw the prisoner start up, lean across his captor, and pull the cloak from the neck of the shrinking sitter in the galley.
-- He added that he did not pretend to say what he might or might not have done to Compeyson, but that, in the moment of his laying his hand on his cloak to identify him, that villain had staggered up and staggered back, and they had both gone overboard together, when the sudden wrenching of him (Magwitch) out of our boat, and the endeavor of his captor to keep him in it, had capsized us.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The soldier saw them going down through the trap-door one after another, the eldest leading the way; and thinking he had no time to lose, he jumped up, put on the cloak which the old woman had given him, and followed them; but in the middle of the stairs he trod on the gown of the youngest princess, and she cried out to her sisters, 'All is not right; someone took hold of my gown.'
-- An-other told him that he had found a cloak which rendered its wearer invisible; and the third had caught a horse which would carry its rider over any obstacle, and even up the glass mountain.
-- Then the prince thanked his little friend with the scarlet cloak for his friendly aid, and took the wand and the bread, and went travelling on and on, over sea and over land, till he came to his journey's end, and found everything to be as the dwarf had told him.
-- '; a cloak that made the owner invisible, or gave him any form he pleased; and a pair of boots that carried the wearer wherever he wished.
-- 'The cloak is very well,' said he: 'now give me the sword.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then she uncovered her head, and letting her cloak and hood fall where they might, stood looking at him: so colourless, so dishevelled, so defiant and despairing, that he was afraid of her.
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：
-- His very presence was an affront to a man of society, cloak it as he might in an assumed good manner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He jerked his great cloak more heavily upon him by an impatient movement of one shoulder, and growled, 'To the devil with this Brigand of a Sun that never shines in here!'
-- 'Well,' cried the other, uneasily flinging the end of his cloak over his shoulder with an oath, 'let them do their worst!'
-- He lighted another of his paper cigars at his companion's; put it tightly between his teeth; covered his head with a soft slouched hat; threw the end of his cloak over his shoulder again; and walked out into the side gallery on which the door opened, without taking any further notice of Signor Cavalletto.
-- With an old sheepskin knapsack at his back, and a rough, unbarked stick cut out of some wood in his hand; miry, footsore, his shoes and gaiters trodden out, his hair and beard untrimmed; the cloak he carried over his shoulder, and the clothes he wore, sodden with wet; limping along in pain and difficulty; he looked as if the clouds were hurrying from him, as if the wail of the wind and the shuddering of the grass were directed against him, as if the low mysterious plashing of the water murmured at him, as if the fitful autumn night were disturbed by him.
-- Making his way to an empty little table in a corner of the room behind the stove, he put down his knapsack and his cloak upon the ground.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was not elegantly dressed, but a noble-looking woman, and the girls thought the gray cloak and unfashionable bonnet covered the most splendid mother in the world.
-- The big trunk stood ready in the hall, Mother's cloak and bonnet lay on the sofa, and Mother herself sat trying to eat, but look-ing so pale and worn with sleeplessness and anxiety that the girls found it very hard to keep their resolution.
-- asked Jo, buttoning Amy's cloak as she used to but-ton her pinafores.
-- 'With all my heart, if you will be a brave St. Martin, stop-ping as you ride gallantly through the world to share your cloak with the beggar.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An old black cloak had been thrown over the rags of the old woman and the man; and the bare coffin having been screwed down, was hoisted on the shoulders of the bearers, and carried into the street.
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