gold是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 金， 黄金； 金币； 金黄色a. 金的， 金制的，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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And Miss Estella--that's her niece, I think--handed her in cake and wine at the coach-window, on a gold plate.
-- And we all had cake and wine on gold plates.
-- "Estella waved a blue flag, and I waved a red one, and Miss Havisham waved one sprinkled all over with little gold stars, out at the coach-window.
-- And his watch is a gold repeater, and worth a hundred pound if it's worth a penny.
-- "Gentlemen," said Mr. Jaggers, deliberately putting down the glass, and hauling out his gold repeater by its massive chain, "I am exceedingly sorry to announce that it's half past nine."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when he went in he saw his wife sitting on a throne of gold and diamonds, with a gold-en crown upon her head; and on each side of her stood six 52 Grimms' Fairy Talesfair maidens, each a head taller than the other.
-- The gate was opened, and as the girl passed through, a shower of gold fell upon her, and the gold clung to her, so that she was covered with it from head to foot.
-- The first day she was very obedient and industrious, and exerted herself to please Mother Holle, for she thought of the gold she should get in return.
-- The lazy girl was de-lighted at this, and thought to herself, 'The gold will soon be mine.'
-- One of them now no-ticed a gold ring still remaining on the little finger of the murdered girl, and as he could not draw it off easily, he took a hatchet and cut off the finger; but the finger sprang into the air, and fell behind the cask into the lap of the girl who was hiding there.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He held his sword drawn in his hand to defend himself, if I should happen to break loose; it was almost three inches long; the hilt and scabbard were gold enriched with diamonds.
-- The ladies and courtiers were all most magnificently clad; so that the spot they stood upon seemed to resemble a petti-coat spread upon the ground, embroidered with figures of gold and silver.
-- In one of my fobs there was a silver watch, and in the other a small quantity of gold in a purse.
-- It is upon this account that the image of Justice, in their courts of judicature, is formed with six eyes, two before, as many behind, and on each side one, to signify circumspec-tion; with a bag of gold open in her right hand, and a sword sheathed in her left, to show she is more disposed to reward than to punish.
-- below par; that I had cost his 74 Gulliver's Travelsmajesty above a million and a half of sprugs' (their great-est gold coin, about the bigness of a spangle) 'and, upon the whole, that it would be advisable in the emperor to take the first fair occasion of dismissing me.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Coketown did not come out of its own furnaces, in all respects like gold that had stood the fire.
-- You don't expect to be set up in a coach and six, and to be fed on turtle soup and venison, with a gold spoon, as a good many of 'em do!'
-- I see traces of the turtle soup, and venison, and gold spoon in this.
-- Shortly after which oration, as they were going on a nuptial trip to Lyons, in order that Mr. Bounderby might take the opportunity of seeing how the Hands got on in those parts, and whether they, too, required to be fed with gold spoons; the happy pair departed for the railroad.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett could not imagine her mother's handswithout her gold thimble or her rustling figure unaccompanied by the small negro girl whose sole function in life wasto remove basting threads and carry the rosewood sewing box from room to room, as Ellen moved about the housesuperintending the cooking, the cleaning and the wholesale clothes-making for the plantation.
-- Her heavyearbobs with their long gold fringe hung down from loops of tidily netted hair, swinging close to her brown eyes, eyesthat had the still gleam of a forest pool in winter when brown leaves shine up through quiet water.
-- There was no one there so handsome, thought Scarlett, as shemarked how graceful was his negligent pose and how the sun gleamed on his gold hair and mustache.
-- All she could think of was that she loved him everything about him, from the proud lift of his gold head to hisslender dark boots, loved his laughter even when it mystified her, loved his bewildering silences.
-- There were parties and balls and bazaars every week and war weddingswithout number, with the grooms on furlough in bright gray and gold braid and the brides in blockade-run finery,aisles of crossed swords, toasts drunk in blockaded champagne and tearful farewells.
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