clean是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 清洁的， 干净的v. 除去…污垢， 把…弄干净，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not in the coffee-room that I found Steerforth expecting me,but in a snug private apartment, red-curtained and Turkey-carpeted, where the fire burnt bright, and a fine hot breakfast wasset forth on a table covered with a clean cloth; and a cheerfulminiature of the room, the fire, the breakfast, Steerforth, and all,was shining in the little round mirror over the sideboard.
-- There was a great stage, too, looking very clean and smooth afterthe streets; and there were people upon it, talking about somethingor other, but not at all intelligibly.
-- The mattress of the sofa (which was agreat deal too short for his lank figure), the sofa pillows, a blanket,the table-cover, a clean breakfast-cloth, and a great-coat, made hima bed and covering, for which he was more than thankful.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It will be as clean as Randalls by candlelight.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jacob stooped to the God-forgive-me, which was a two-handled tall mug standing in the ashes, cracked and charred with heat: it was rather furred with extraneous matter about the outside, especially in the crevices of the handles, the innermost curves of which may not have seen daylight for several years by reason of this encrustation thereon formed of ashes accidentally wetted with cider and baked hard; but to the mind of any sensible drinker the cup was no worse for that, being incontestably clean on the inside and about the rim.
-- The third item of consciousness was that of seeing the same sword, perfectly clean and free from blood held vertically in Troy's hand (in the position technically called "recover swords").
-- At one place in the path he saw a tuft of stringy roots washed white and clean as a bundle of tendons.
-- Nearly all the flowers were washed clean out of the ground, and they lay, roots upwards, on the spots whither they had been splashed by the stream.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In that district the pavements are clean and dry, there is neither mud nor water in the gutters, grass grows in the chinks of the walls.
-- The hearth is always so clean and neat that it is evident that a fire is only kindled there on great occasions; the stone chimney-piece is adorned by a couple of vases filled with faded artificial flowers imprisoned under glass shades, on either side of a bluish marble clock in the very worst taste.
-- He was always obliging, always in good spirits; if anything went wrong with one of the locks, he would soon unscrew it, take it to pieces, file it, oil and clean and set it in order, and put it back in its 莽卢卢 7 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 place again; "I am an old hand at it," he used to say.
-- Where else in Paris would they have found wholesome food in sufficient quantity at the prices she charged them, and rooms which they were at liberty to make, if not exactly elegant or comfortable, at any rate clean and healthy?
-- He usually wore a coat of corn-flower blue; his rotund and portly person was still further set off by a clean white waistcoat, and a gold chain and seals which dangled over that broad expanse.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Having thus arranged my dwelling and carpeted it with clean straw, I retired, for I saw the figure of a man at a dis-tance, and I remembered too well my treatment the night before to trust myself in his power.
-- Through this crevice a small room was visible, whitewashed and clean but very bare of furni-ture.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a nice-looking boy with a riot of soft brown curls on his whiteforehead and eyes as deep brown, as clean and as gentle as a collie dog's.
-- He lookeddown at her radiantly, his whole clean simple heart in his eyes.
-- So you were mad clean through.
-- And I'm sure I'll clean up a million on the blockade."
-- Many of them had run away from school to jointhe army, and here and there were clumps of them in the cadet uniforms of military academies, the black cock featherson their tight gray caps wet with rain, the clean white canvas straps crossing their chests sodden.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meantime, Mrs. Joe put clean white curtains up, and tacked a new flowered flounce across the wide chimney to replace the old one, and uncovered the little state parlor across the passage, which was never uncovered at any other time, but passed the rest of the year in a cool haze of silver paper, which even extended to the four little white crockery poodles on the mantel-shelf, each with a black nose and a basket of flowers in his mouth, and each the counterpart of the other.
-- Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.
-- When my ablutions were completed, I was put into clean linen of the stiffest character, like a young penitent into sackcloth, and was trussed up in my tightest and fearfullest suit.
-- What lay heaviest on my mind was, the consideration that six days intervened between me and the day of departure; for I could not divest myself of a misgiving that something might happen to London in the meanwhile, and that, when I got there, it would be either greatly deteriorated or clean gone.
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