desk是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 书桌， 办公桌， 服务台，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：
-- 'I am going,' said Mr. Stryver, leaning his arms confi-dentially on the desk: whereupon, although it was a large double one, there appeared to be not half desk enough for him: 'I am going to make an offer of myself in marriage to your agreeable little friend, Miss Manette, Mr.
-- said Stryver, slapping the desk with his conten-tious hand, opening his eyes wider, and taking a long breath, 'if I understand you, Mr. Lorry, I'll be hanged!'
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：
-- But I have remained here must always remain here, sitting at my desk in the office, and patiently see other people fetch their passports to go abroad.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He waited till another student, a stuttering gawk of a student, had finished talking to Gottlieb, dark, lean, impassive at his desk in a cubbyhole of an office, then he plunged.
-- But he was conscious that in the cotton-plugged test-tube between the instrument-bath and the bichloride jar on the demonstrator's desk were millions of fatal anthrax germs.
-- If in his house there was but one comfortable chair, on his desk were letters, long, intimate, and respectful, from the great ones of France and Germany, Italy and Denmark, and from scientists whom Great Britain so much valued that she gave them titles almost as high as those with which she rewarded distillers, cigarette- manufacturers, and the owners of obscene newspapers.
-- Wise pulled down the sleazy window-shades and from a warped drawer of his desk brought up a bottle out of which they both drank, wiping the mouth of the bottle with circling palms.
-- He found chocolate belonging to an innocent technician; he even invaded the office of the Director and in the desk of the Diana-like Pearl Robbins unearthed tea and a kettle (as well as a lip-stick, and a love-letter beginning "My Little Ickles").
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All day long, and until seven oreight in the evening, Mr. Mell, at his own detached desk in theschoolroom, worked hard with pen, ink, ruler, books, and writing-paper, making out the bills (as I found) for last half-year.
-- Here I sit at the desk again, watching his eye- humbly watching hiseye, as he rules a ciphering-book for another victim whose handshave just been flattened by that identical ruler, and who is trying towipe the sting out with a pocket-handkerchief.
-- Here I sit at the desk again, on a drowsy summer afternoon.
-- After laying hishead on the desk for a little while, he would cheer up somehow,begin to laugh again, and draw skeletons all over his slate, beforehis eyes were dry.
-- It was my book thathe struck his desk with; and as I stood beside him, following his 96eye as it glanced round the room, I saw the boys all stop, somesuddenly surprised, some half afraid, and some sorry perhaps.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Liddy, you may as well bring me my desk and I'll direct it at once."
-- Bathsheba took from her desk a gorgeously illuminated and embossed design in post-octavo, which had been bought on the previous market-day at the chief stationer's in Casterbridge.
-- Then she jumped up with a manner of decision, and fetched her desk from a side table.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The watchmaker, always poring over a little desk with a magnifying-glass at his eye, and always inspected by a group of smock-frocks poring over him through the glass of his shop-window, seemed to be about the only person in the High Street whose trade engaged his attention.
-- "Very much," was Wemmick's reply, "for I have had my legs under the desk all day, and shall be glad to stretch them.
-- I often paid him a visit in the dark back-room in which he consorted with an ink-jar, a hat-peg, a coal-box, a string-box, an almanac, a desk and stool, and a ruler; and I do not remember that I ever saw him do anything else but look about him.
-- Wemmick was out, and though he had been at his desk he could have done nothing for me.
-- Stepping in for a moment at the open gate, and looking around me with the uncomfortable air of a stranger who had no business there, I saw the auctioneer's clerk walking on the casks and telling them off for the information of a catalogue-compiler, pen in hand, who made a temporary desk of the wheeled chair I had so often pushed along to the tune of Old Clem.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a comfortable room, handsomely furnished in the higher official manner; an presenting stately suggestions of the absent Barnacle, in the thick carpet, the leather-covered desk to sit at, the leather-covered desk to stand at, the formidable easy-chair and hearth-rug, the interposed screen, the torn-up papers, the dispatch-boxes with little labels sticking out of them, like medicine bottles or dead game, the pervading smell of leather and mahogany, and a general bamboozling air of How not to do it.
-- He observed anew that wherever he went, he saw, or heard, or touched, the celebrated name of Merdle; he found it difficult even to remain at his desk a couple of hours, without having it presented to one of his bodily senses through some agency or other.
-- It was a charming little woman to whom he said it a sprightly little woman, dressed in perfect taste, who came out of a green velvet bower to attend upon him, from posting up some dainty little books of account which one could hardly suppose to be ruled for the entry of any articles more commercial than kisses, at a dainty little shining desk which looked in itself like a sweetmeat.
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