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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He heard quite distinctly a fumbling going on at his study desk down-stairs, and then a violent sneeze.
-- Mr. Bunting was now in the hall, and through the crack of the door he could see the desk and the open drawer and a candle burning on the desk.
-- He went to a little untidy desk in the corner, and began a note.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his hand he swayed a ferule, that sceptre of despotic power; the birch of justice reposed on three nails behind the throne, a constant terror to evil doers, while on the desk before him might be seen sundry contraband ar-ticles and prohibited weapons, detected upon the persons of idle urchins, such as half-munched apples, popguns, whirl-igigs, fly-cages, and whole legions of rampant little paper game-cocks.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I walked up narrow stairs, and on the landing found a sort of box, glassed in, within which were a desk and a couple of chairs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a dirty little box, this counting-house, with nothing in it but an old ricketty desk and two stools, a hat-peg, an ancient almanack, an inkstand with no ink, and the stump of one pen, and an eight-day clock which hadn't gone for eighteen years at least, and of which the minute-hand had been twisted off for a tooth-pick.
-- Daniel Quilp pulled his hat over his brows, climbed on to the desk (which had a flat top) and stretching his short length upon it went to sleep with ease of an old practitioner; intending, no doubt, to compensate himself for the deprivation of last night's rest, by a long and sound nap.
-- With that, Mr Quilp suffered himself to roll gradually off the desk until his short legs touched the ground, when he got upon them and led the way from the counting-house to the wharf outside, when the first objects that presented themselves were the boy who had stood on his head and another young gentleman of about his own stature, rolling in the mud together, locked in a tight embrace, and cuffing each other with mutual heartiness.
-- There were a couple of forms, notched and cut and inked all over; a small deal desk perched on four legs, at which no doubt the master sat; a few dog's-eared books upon a high shelf; and beside them a motley collection of peg-tops, balls, kites, fishing-lines, marbles, half-eaten apples, and other confiscated property of idle urchins.
-- As the schoolmaster, after arranging the two forms in due order, took his seat behind his desk and made other preparations for school, the child was apprehensive that she might be in the way, and offered to withdraw to her little bedroom.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore, when Arthur now made such an apology, and such a request, and moved her to her desk and seated himself on the stool, Mrs Finching merely began to talk louder and faster, as a delicate hint that she could overhear nothing, and Mr Casby stroked his long white locks with sleepy calmness.
-- That brought his head down on the desk once more.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The word 'limes' was like fire to powder, his yellow face flushed, and he rapped on his desk with an energy which made Jenny skip to her seat with unusual ra-pidity.
-- Jo's desk up here was an old tin kitchen which hung against the wall.
-- Dr. Bangs came twice a day, Hannah sat up at night, Meg kept a telegram in her desk all ready to send off at any minute, and Jo never stirred from Beth's side.
-- She never alluded to a cer-tain person, but she thought of him a good deal, dreamed dreams more than ever, and once Jo, rummaging her sister's desk for stamps, found a bit of paper scribbled over with the words, 'Mrs.
-- Tumbling about in one part of the desk among bills, passports, and business documents of various kinds were several of Jo's letters, and in another compartment were three notes from Amy, carefully tied up with one of her blue ribbons and sweetly suggestive of the little dead roses put away inside.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Limbkins was standing in front of the desk on one side; and Mr. Gamfield, with a partially washed face, on the other; while two or three bluff-looking men, in top-boots, were lounging about.
-- But, as it chanced to be immediately under his nose, it followed, as a matter of course, that he looked all over his desk for it, without finding it; and happening in the course of his search to look straight before him, his gaze encountered the pale and terrified face of Oliver Twist: who, despite all the admonitory looks and pinches of Bumble, was regarding the repulsive countenance of his future master, with a mingled expression of horror and fear, too palpable to be mistaken, even by a half-blind magistrate.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Now," said a sharp, quick-mannered Jew, who was sitting at a roll-top desk near the window, "have you ever worked in any other store?"
-- He then returned, and Carrie followed her new superior to a little desk in a corner, which he used as a kind of official centre.
-- As she turned the corner, she saw through the great shiny window the small desk at which she had applied.
-- This he exercised at his office desk with perfect deliberation.
-- It would probably be on his desk when he got back.
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