marble是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 大理石, (游戏用的) 玻璃弹子，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Molten lead and iron boiled in the marble basin of the fountain; the water ran dry; the extinguisher tops of the towers vanished like ice before the heat, and trickled down into four rugged wells of flame.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cocks are flying up fro m Kjoge!You will have a farm-yard, so large, oh!so very large!You will suffer neither hunger nor thirst!You will get on in the world!You will be a rich and happy man!Your house will exalt itself like King Waldemar's tower, and will be richly decorated with marble statues, like that at Prastoe.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The marble washstand, the dressing table, the little sofa, the tables, the bronze clock on the chimney piece, the window curtains, and the portieres were all new and expensive.
-- Then he showed them marble baths, and beds with extraordinary springs.
-- Levin maintained that the mistake of Wagner and all his followers lay in their trying to take music into the sphere of another art, just as poetry goes wrong when it tries to paint a face as the art of painting ought to do, and as an instance of this mistake he cited the sculptor who carved in marble certain poetic phantasms flitting round the figure of the poet on the pedestal.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in its day it was the proudest inn between Chicago and Pittsburgh; an oriental palace, the entrance a score of brick Moorish arches, the lobby towering from a black and white marble floor, up past gilt iron balconies, to the green, pink, pearl, and amber skylight seven stories above.
-- As they entered the bar of the Grand Hotel, with its paintings of lovely but absent-minded ladies, its mirrors, its thick marble rail along a mahogany bar, he blurted: "Well, I got mine, too.
-- The Ice House, that dimmest and most peaceful among saloons, with its cool marble tables, its gilt- touched white walls, had not been closed, though only the oldest topers and the youngest bravos, fresh out from Home and agonizingly lonely for Peckham or Walthamstow, for Peel Park or the Cirencester High Street, were desperate enough to go there, and of the attendants there remained only one big Jamaica barman.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stern and already rigid profile of her face looked as though chiselled of marble too, and the smile on her pale lips was full of an immense unchildish misery and sorrowful appeal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You put that in a parlour window,' saidTraddles, falling a little back from it to survey it with the greateradmiration, 'with a plant in it, and- and there you are!This littleround table with the marble top (it's two feet ten in circumference),I bought.
-- Shewas quite mad, and had to be held by force; or, if she couldn't havegot to a knife, or got to the sea, she'd have beaten her head againstthe marble floor.'
-- There's your old friend, you see,' said Traddles,nodding triumphantly at the flower-pot and stand; 'and there's thetable with the marble top!All the other furniture is plain andserviceable, you perceive.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The soft and continual shimmer of the dying lightning showed a marble face high against the black sky of the opposite quarter.
-- Reaching the town, Troy descended into a side street and entered a pair of gates surmounted by a board bearing the words, "Lester, stone and marble mason."
-- "Here's a marble headstone beautifully crocketed, with medallions beneath of typical subjects; here's the footstone after the same pattern, and here's the coping to enclose the grave.
-- The end of the liquid parabola has come forward from the wall, has advanced over the plinth mouldings, over a heap of stones, over the marble border, into the midst of Fanny Robin's grave.
-- The disturbed earth was washed over the grass and pathway in the guise of the brown mud he had already seen, and it spotted the marble tombstone with the same stains.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the opposite wall, at the further end of the graveled walk, a green marble arch was painted once upon a time by a local artist, and in this semblance of a shrine a statue representing Cupid is installed; a Parisian Cupid, so blistered and disfigured that he looks like a candidate for one of the adjacent hospitals, and might suggest an allegory to lovers of symbolism.
-- There is a round table in the middle, with a purplish-red marble top, on which there stands, by way of ornament, the inevitable white china tea-service, covered with a half-effaced gilt network.
-- 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.
-- The poorest sample of humanity, the street arab, will pull the bell handle at every street door in bitter weather, and scramble up to write his name on the unsullied marble of a monument.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It barely cleared the tall back of thesofa and splintered with a little crash against the marble mantelpiece.
-- said Scarlett, almost sobbing, as she dropped the comb and caught at the marble top of the dresserfor support.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next day, just as the princess had sat down to din-ner, she heard a strange noise tap, tap plash, plash as if something was coming up the marble staircase: and soon afterwards there was a gentle knock at the door, and a little voice cried out and said: 'Open the door, my princess dear, Open the door to thy true love here!
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