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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A great roofless palace crowned the hill, and the marble of the courtyards and the fountains was split, and stained with red and green, and the very cobblestones in the court-yard where the king's elephants used to live had been thrust up and apart by grasses and young trees.
-- There was a ruined sum-mer-house of white marble in the center of the terrace, built for queens dead a hundred years ago.
-- But the walls were made of screens of marble tracery beautiful milk-white fretwork, set with agates and cornelians and jasper and lapis lazuli, and as the moon came up behind the hill it shone through the open work, casting shadows on the ground like black velvet embroidery.
-- Kaa looked carefully till he found a discolored crack in the marble tracery showing a weak spot, made two or three light taps with his head to get the distance, and then lifting up six feet of his body clear of the ground, sent home half a dozen full-power smashing blows, nose-first.
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：
-- Marble could not be colder, calmer, or steadier than the countenance he put upon this sudden and vin-dictive attack.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You will excuse my wearing my hat, but the palace is damp, and the marble floor is if I may be allowed the expression sloppy.'
-- Quick! Have we not enough to do to drive away that marble cold, and keep her warm!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After washing his hands with perfumed soap, carefully brushing his trimmed nails and washing his face and stout neck in a marble basin, he walked into a third room, where a shower-bath was ready.
-- he again repeated to himself, glancing at the half-nude woman with splendid marble shoulders and arms and a triumphant smile on her lips.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it caught my eye that the corner of the marble table near me was fractured.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ; and some admirable statues in marble and bronze, after the finest antique models, stood upon pedestals in the corners of this magnificent museum.
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：
-- There was a circle of people, Sir Joshua with his eighteenth-century appearance, Gerald the amused, handsome young Englishman, Alexander tall and the handsome politician, democratic and lucid, Hermione strange like a long Cassandra, and the women lurid with colour, all dutifully smoking their long white pipes, and sitting in a half-moon in the comfortable, soft-lighted drawing-room, round the logs that flickered on the marble hearth.
-- He moved his feet uneasily on the marble hearth, and put his cigarette to his mouth, looking up at the ceiling.
-- He turned, and flipped the ash from his cigarette on to the great marble hearth-stones, that lay bare in the room, without fender or bar.
-- Gudrun was aware of the beautiful old marble panels of the fireplace, swelling softly carved, round him and above him.
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