brown是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /a. 褐色(的) ， 棕色(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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So the pot was placed in safety, but it was not long before the cat had a great yearning for it, and said to the mouse: 'I want to tell you something, little mouse; my cousin has brought a little son into the world, and has asked me to be godmother; he is white with brown spots, and I am to hold him over the font at the christening.
-- One day, as he was roaming along in a brown study, thinking with no great comfort on what he had been and what he now was, and was like to be, all on a sudden there stood before him a little, rough-looking, black dwarf.
-- When they could see to the bottom there lay a wild man whose body was brown like rusty iron, and whose hair hung over his face down to his knees.
-- As soon as the dwarf had recovered from his first fright he cried with his shrill voice: 'Could you not have done it more carefully!You dragged at my brown coat so that it is all torn and full of holes, you clumsy creatures!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There 258 Gulliver's Travelsis indeed another custom, which I cannot altogether ap-prove of: when the king has a mind to put any of his nobles to death in a gentle indulgent manner, he commands the floor to be strewed with a certain brown powder of a dead-ly composition, which being licked up, infallibly kills him in twenty-four hours.
-- Their heads and breasts were covered with a thick hair, some frizzled, and others lank; they had beards like goats, and a long ridge of hair down their backs, and the fore parts of their legs and feet; but the rest of their bodies was bare, so that I might see their skins, which were of a brown buff colour.
-- The gray steed rubbed my hat all round with his right fore-hoof, and discomposed it so much that I was forced to adjust it better by taking it off and settling it again; whereat, both he and his compan-ion (who was a brown bay) appeared to be much surprised: the latter felt the lappet of my coat, and finding it to hang loose about me, they both looked with new signs of wonder.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In yielding up my trust here, I shall not be freed from the necessity of eating the bread of dependence:' she might have said the sweetbread, for that delicate article in a savoury brown sauce was her favourite supper: 'and I would rather receive it from your hand, than from any other.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When unmarried they wear a little brown knitted cap over a crown of plaited hair; but when married, they cover their heads with a colored handkerchief, over which they tie a white scarf.
-- The sweeping and broken waves came rolling in upon the pointed rocks; the gulf was surrounded by rocky walls--a mighty cliff, three thousand feet in height, remarkable for its brown strata, separated here and there by beds of tufa of a reddish hue.
-- Basalt is a brown rock of igneous origin.
-- Do you not admire these variegated shades of lava, which run through a whole series of colors, from reddish brown to pale yellow--by the most insensible degrees?
-- My uncle, who for a short time had been withdrawn from his absorbing reveries by the novel incidents of this sea fight, fell back again apparently into a brown study.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Constance, his wife, was a ruddy, country-looking girl with soft brown hair and sturdy body, and slow movements, full of unusual energy.
-- Wragby was a long low old house in brown stone, be-gun about the middle of the eighteenth century, and added on to, till it was a warren of a place without much distinc-tion.
-- Only a dank ride in a motor-car up a dark, damp drive, burrow-ing through gloomy trees, out to the slope of the park where grey damp sheep were feeding, to the knoll where the house spread its dark brown facade, and the housekeeper and her husband were hovering, like unsure tenants on the face of the earth, ready to stammer a welcome.
-- Connie went for walks in the park, and in the woods that joined the park, and enjoyed the soli-tude and the mystery, kicking the brown leaves of autumn, and picking the primroses of spring.
-- Being a soft, ruddy, country-looking girl, inclined to freck-les, with big blue eyes, and curling, brown hair, and a soft voice, and rather strong, female loins she was considered a little old-fashioned and 'womanly'.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The other man was lying on the stone floor, covered with a coarse brown coat.
-- As he said it, he rose, shook himself, scratched himself, tied his brown coat loosely round his neck by the sleeves (he had previously used it as a coverlet), and sat down upon the pavement yawning, with his back against the wall opposite to the grating.
-- Earrings in his brown ears, white teeth lighting up his grotesque brown face, intensely black hair clustering about his brown throat, a ragged red shirt open at his brown breast.
-- A fair girl with rich brown hair hanging free in natural ringlets.
-- 'Is it,' said Barnacle junior, taking heed of his visitor's brown face, 'anything about Tonnage or that sort of thing?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Margaret, the eldest of the four, was sixteen, and very pretty, being plump and fair, with large eyes, plenty of soft brown hair, a sweet mouth, and white hands, of which she was rather vain.
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