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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was known to be brave to excess, and full of daring and chivalry—a Fer-gus of the nineteenth century; but his goodness excelled every other quality, and he was more charitable than St. Martin himself, for he would have given the whole of his cloak to any of the poor Highlanders.
-- Is there not a constant repetition going on of the story of the fable where the storm, blow as it will, cannot tear the cloak from the shoulders of the traveler, while the first warm rays of sunshine make him throw it off immediately?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His wide sleeveless mantle with a large cape to it the sort of cloak one sees upon travellers during the winter months in Swit-zerland or North Italy was by no means adapted to the long cold journey through Russia, from Eydkuhnen to St. Petersburg.
-- The wearer of this cloak was a young fellow, also of about twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age, slightly above the middle height, very fair, with a thin, pointed and very light coloured beard; his eyes were large and blue, and had an in-tent look about them, yet that heavy expression which some people affirm to be a peculiarity.
-- The readiness of the fair-haired young man in the cloak to answer all his opposite neighbour's questions was surprising.
-- I see you are still uneasy about me and keep eyeing my cloak and bundle.
-- Sure enough the cloak was lying on the ground.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ulysses knew the voice as that of the goddess: he flung his cloak from him and set off to run.
-- The day that robs a child of his parents severs him from his own kind; his head is bowed, his cheeks are wet with tears, and he will go about destitute among the friends of his father, plucking one by the cloak and another by the shirt.
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：
-- He was enveloped in a cloak that might have been intended as a protection from the chilling damps of the woods, but which served equally well as a mantle to conceal his person.
-- In this dilemma, with little or no time for reflection, he suddenly determined to cloak his in-valuable friend, at any or every hazard to himself.
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：
-- The ironic philosopher reflects with a smile that Sir Walter Raleigh is more safely inshrined in the memory of mankind because he set his cloak for the Virgin Queen to walk on than because he carried the English name to undiscovered countries.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was surprised to see the child standing patiently by with a cloak upon her arm, and in her hand a hat, and stick.
-- Having seen the old lady safely in her seat, and assisted in the arrangement of her cloak and a small basket which formed an indispensable portion of her equipage, Mr Abel got into a little box behind which had evidently been made for his express accommodation, and smiled at everybody present by turns, beginning with his mother and ending with the pony.
-- The man who had been watching this fire, and whose task was ended for the present, gladly withdrew, and left them with their friend, who, spreading Nell's little cloak upon a heap of ashes, and showing her where she could hang her outer-clothes to dry, signed to her and the old man to lie down and sleep.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shells were a little open; the Captain came near and put his dagger between to prevent them from closing; then with his hand he raised the membrane with its fringed edges, which formed a cloak for the creature.
-- These wonders of Nature, these masterpieces of art, amongst which for so many days my life had been concentrated, I was going to abandon them for ever!I should like to have taken a last look through the windows of the saloon into the waters of the Atlantic: but the panels were hermetically closed, and a cloak of steel separated me from that ocean which I had not yet explored.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a strange figure in the class-room, wearing a large, old cloak of greenish cloth, on which was a raised pattern of dull gold.
-- Handsome was her stiff, long body, her straight-stepping white legs, there was a static magnificence about her as she let the cloak float loosely away from her striding.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The crazy old woman was too much occupied in bewailing the loss of her cloak (which the undertaker had taken off), to pay him any attention; so they threw a can of cold water over him; and when he came to, saw him safely out of the churchyard, locked the gate, and departed on their different ways.
-- 'The shadow!I saw the shadow of a woman, in a cloak and bonnet, pass along the wainscot like a breath!'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She met with painful rebuffs, the most trying of which had been in a manufacturing cloak house, where she had gone to the fourth floor to inquire.
-- What we know of foot-rests, swivel-back chairs, dining-rooms for the girls, clean aprons and curling irons supplied free, and a decent cloak room, were unthought of.
-- Then he gathered his cloak about him and strolled out into the night.
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