soap是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 肥皂，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her mother was an old, old woman, and they used to sell string and thread, and soap and tobac-co, out of the window of their little house, and lived on the pittance they gained by this trade.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog to and fro on the floor, up and down, and around in great circles, but his eyes were red and he held on as the body cart-whipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap dish and the flesh brush, and banged against the tin side of the bath.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "How wonderfully they make this soap," he said gazing at a piece of soap he was handling, which Agafea Mihalovna had put ready for the visitor but Oblonsky had not used.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Coughlin and Mrs. Tromp bewailed the cost of laundry soap and butter, and exchanged recipes for pickled peaches, while the men, sitting on the edge of the porch, their knees crossed, eloquently waving their cigars, gave themselves up to the ecstasy of shop-talk: "Say, Doctor, how do you find collections?"
-- They crept up to the nurse beside Martin and in embarrassment exposed their arms, which she scrubbed with soap and water and dabbed with alcohol before passing them on to him.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He dropped the axe with the blade in the water, snatched a piece of soap that lay in a broken saucer on the window, and began washing his hands in the bucket.
-- He washed that morning scrupulously he got some soap from Nastasya he washed his hair, his neck and es- pecially his hands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In themeantime, I put myself on a short allowance of bear's grease,wholly abandoned scented soap and lavender water, and sold offthree waistcoats at a prodigious sacrifice, as being too luxurious formy stern career.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had known him the moment I saw him looking over the settle, and now that I stood confronting him with his hand upon my shoulder, I checked off again in detail his large head, his dark complexion, his deep-set eyes, his bushy black eyebrows, his large watch-chain, his strong black dots of beard and whisker, and even the smell of scented soap on his great hand.
-- He had a closet in his room, fitted up for the purpose, which smelt of the scented soap like a perfumer's shop.
-- There were some people slinking about as usual when we passed out into the street, who were evidently anxious to speak with him; but there was something so conclusive in the halo of scented soap which encircled his presence, that they gave it up for that day.
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：
-- Then they cut out the copra and put it into sacks, and the women would carry it down to the trader at the village by the lagoon, and he would give in exchange for it rice and soap and tinned meat and a little money.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sail spreads out and fills like a soap bubble about to burst.
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：
-- The stacks of soap in the grocers' shops, the rhubarb and lemons in the greengro-cers!the awful hats in the milliners!all went by ugly, ugly, ugly, followed by the plaster-and-gilt horror of the cinema with its wet picture announcements, 'A Woman's Love!
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A perfect scene of ruin met our eyes, for in his fall Mr. Pickwick had plunged his head and shoulders into a tub of water, upset a keg of soft soap upon his manly form, and torn his garments badly.
-- didn't use so much soap on his hands, he wouldn't always be late at breakfast.
-- Now a bag of remarkable clothespins, next, a wonderful nutmeg grater which fell to pieces at the first trial, a knife cleaner that spoiled all the knives, or a sweeper that picked the nap neatly off the carpet and left the dirt, labor-saving soap that took the skin off one's hands, infallible cements which stuck firmly to nothing but the fingers of the deluded buyer, and every kind of tinware, from a toy savings bank for odd pennies, to a wonderful boiler which would wash articles in its own steam with every prospect of exploding in the process.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He then donned his waistcoat, and taking up a piece of hard soap on the wash-stand centre table, dipped it into water and commenced lathering his face.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This, and washing his face with the aid of common washing soap until it glowed a shiny red, constituted his only preparation for his evening meal.
-- The other half of this picture came when young Blyford, son of Blyford, the soap manufacturer, walked home with her.
-- "I'll ring for soap and towels," he said, "and send you up a hair-brush.
-- There were some nine cots in the place, two or three wooden chairs, a soap box, and a small, round-bellied stove, in which a fire was blazing.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A rail fence round a two-acre yard; a stile made out of logs sawed off and up-ended in steps, like barrels of a different length, to climb over the fence with, and for the women to stand on when they are going to jump on to a horse; some sickly grass-patches in the big yard, but mostly it was bare and smooth, like an old hat with the nap rubbed off; big double log-house for the white folks hewed logs, with the chinks stopped up with mud or mortar, and these mud-stripes been whitewashed some time or another; round-log kitchen, with a big broad, open but roofed passage joining it to the house; log smoke- house back of the kitchen; three little log nigger-cabins in a row t'other side the smoke-house; one little hut all by itself away down against the back fence, and some outbuildings down a piece the other side; ash- hopper and big kettle to bile soap in by the little hut; bench by the kitchen door, with bucket of water and a gourd; hound asleep there in the sun; more hounds asleep round about; about three shade trees away off in a corner; some currant bushes and gooseberry bushes in one place by the fence; outside of the fence a gar-den and a watermelon patch; then the cotton fields begins, and after the fields the woods.
-- Why, Huck, it wouldn't make no more talk than break- ing into a soap factory.'
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