silver是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 银； 银器； 银币v. 镀银，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pork entered the room, bearing a plate, silver and a napkin.
-- The Wilkes butler, Tom, was hurrying through the halls, a silver tray in his hands, bowing and grinning, as he offeredtall glasses to young men in fawn and gray trousers and fine ruffled linen shirts.
-- Thebarbecue had reached its peak and the warm air was full of laughter and talk, the click of silver on porcelain and therich heavy smells of roasting meats and redolent gravies.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meantime, Mrs. Joe put clean white curtains up, and tacked a new flowered flounce across the wide chimney to replace the old one, and uncovered the little state parlor across the passage, which was never uncovered at any other time, but passed the rest of the year in a cool haze of silver paper, which even extended to the four little white crockery poodles on the mantel-shelf, each with a black nose and a basket of flowers in his mouth, and each the counterpart of the other.
-- "And they fought for veal-cutlets out of a silver basket."
-- The table was comfortably laid--no silver in the service, of course--and at the side of his chair was a capacious dumb-waiter, with a variety of bottles and decanters on it, and four dishes of fruit for dessert.
-- Nothing was needed but this; the wretched man, after loading wretched me with his gold and silver chains for years, had risked his life to come to me, and I held it there in my keeping!If I had loved him instead of abhorring him; if I had been attracted to him by the strongest admiration and affection, instead of shrinking from him with the strongest repugnance; it could have been no worse.
-- I've been locked up as much as a silver tea-kittle.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he gave him a lump of silver as big as his head.
-- Hans took out his pocket-handkerchief, put the piece of silver into it, threw it over his shoulder, and jogged off on his road homewards.
-- 'With all my heart,' said Hans: 'but as you are so kind to me, I must tell you one thing you will have a weary task to draw that silver about with you.'
-- 'I gave a lump of silver as big as my head for it.'
-- The moon shone brightly, and the white pebbles which lay in front of the house glittered like real silver pennies.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In one of my fobs there was a silver watch, and in the other a small quantity of gold in a purse.
-- In the left pocket we saw a huge silver chest, with a cover of the same metal, which we, the searchers, were not able to lift.
-- Out of the right fob hung a great silver chain, with a wonderful kind of engine at the bottom.
-- I then gave up my silver and copper money, my purse, with nine large pieces of gold, and some smaller ones; my knife and razor, my comb and silver snuff-box, my handkerchief and jour-36 Gulliver's Travelsnal-book.
-- I had an entire set of silver dishes and plates, and other necessar-ies, which, in proportion to those of the queen, were not much bigger than what I have seen in a London toy-shop for the furniture of a baby-house: these my little nurse kept in her pocket in a silver box, and gave me at meals as I want-ed them, always cleaning them herself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gold and silver coin, precious paper, secrets that if divulged would bring vague destruction upon vague persons (generally, however, people whom she disliked), were the chief items in her ideal catalogue thereof.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The weather remarkably fine; that is to say, the clouds have ascended very high, and are light and fleecy, and surrounded by an atmosphere resembling silver in fusion.
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：
-- 'Oh, there's nothing sacrosanct about a silver tea-pot,' said Connie.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She rose with the rest, and silently withdrew to a remote corner of the great room, where she sat herself on a couch in a window, seeming to watch the reflection of the water as it made a silver quivering on the bars of the lattice.
-- Again, there would be places where they stayed the week together in splendid rooms, had banquets every day, rode out among heaps of wonders, walked through miles of palaces, and rested in dark corners of great churches; where there were winking lamps of gold and silver among pillars and arches, kneeling figures dotted about at confessionals and on the pavements; where there was the mist and scent of incense; where there were pictures, fantastic images, gaudy altars, great heights and distances, all softly lighted through stained glass, and the massive curtains that hung in the doorways.
-- The rich and beautiful wardrobe purchased by these agents, in the course of a few weeks made its way through the intervening country, bristling with custom-houses, garrisoned by an immense army of shabby mendicants in uniform who incessantly repeated the Beggar's Petition over it, as if every individual warrior among them were the ancient Belisarius: and of whom there were so many Legions, that unless the Courier had expended just one bushel and a half of silver money relieving their distresses, they would have worn the wardrobe out before it got to Rome, by turning it over and over.
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