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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lyons,' said I, as I rose from this long and incon-clusive interview, 'you are taking a very great responsibility and putting yourself in a very false position by not making an absolutely clean breast of all that you know.
-- I brought Cartwright down with me you remember the little chap at the express office and he has seen after my simple wants: a loaf of bread and a clean collar.
-- I was dependent upon him for food and clean linen.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was reached by a clean light staircase, and consisted of seven rooms, a nice enough lodg-ing, and one would have thought a little too good for a clerk on two thousand roubles a year.
-- It was a small wooden villa, and he was struck by its at-tractive and clean appearance; it stood in a pleasant little garden, full of flowers.
-- Five months ago I separated myself entirely from the family, and no one dared enter my room except at stated times, to clean and tidy it, and so on, and to bring me my meals.
-- What if I were now to commit some terrible crime murder ten fel-low-creatures, for instance, or anything else that is thought most shocking and dreadful in this world what a dilem-ma my judges would be in, with a criminal who only has a fortnight to live in any case, now that the rack and other forms of torture are abolished!Why, I should die comfort-ably in their own hospital in a warm, clean room, with an attentive doctor probably much more comfortably than I should at home.
-- Believe me, he would betray himself before five days were out; he would burst into tears, and make a clean breast of the matter; especially if managed with tact, and if you and his family watched his every step, so to speak.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thereon the son of Lycaon shouted out and said, 'You are hit clean through the belly; you will not stand out for long, and the glory of the fight is mine.'
-- Meanwhile Ajax sprang on him and pierced his shield, but the spear did not go clean through, though it hustled him back that he could come on no further.
-- Many a man's body was wounded with the pitiless bronze, as he turned round and bared his back to the foe, and many were struck clean through their shields; the wall and battlements were everywhere deluged with the blood alike of Trojans and of Achaeans.
-- He was longing to strike down Idome-neus, but ere he could do so Idomeneus smote him with his spear in the throat under the chin, and the bronze point went clean through it.
-- He laid open the vein that runs all the way up the back to the neck; he cut this vein clean away throughout its whole course, and Thoon fell in the dust face upwards, stretching out his hands imploringly towards his comrades.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There!I clean forgot it.
-- "If this don't beat cock-fighting!Most remarkable! And there I can see a rabbit clean through you, 'arf a mile away!Not a bit of you visible except " He scrutinised the apparently empty space keenly.
-- At last I had a breathing space and rubbed my feet clean with my hands, and so got away altogether.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My ship,' began the captain, waving his hand unsteadily towards the cages, 'was a clean ship.
-- 'Overboard with 'em!We'll have a clean ship soon of the whole bilin' of 'em.'
-- He began with a clean sheet, mentally; had no memories left in his mind of what he had been.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So Mowgli stretched himself in some long, clean grass at the edge of the field, but before he had closed his eyes a soft gray nose poked him under the chin.
-- Mowgli heard an an-swering bellow from the foot of the ravine, saw Shere Khan turn (the tiger knew if the worst came to the worst it was better to meet the bulls than the cows with their calves), and then Rama tripped, stumbled, and went on again over something soft, and, with the bulls at his heels, crashed full into the other herd, while the weaker buffaloes were lifted clean off their feet by the shock of the meeting.
-- The first thing he did was to crawl inland, and there he met tens of thousands of babies of his own age, and they played together like puppies, went to sleep on the clean sand, and played again.
-- Kerick Booterin turned nearly white under his oil and smoke, for he was an Aleut, and Aleuts are not clean people.
-- I will go out until the day, until the morning break Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake.
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