surface是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 表面； 外表a. 表面的， 肤浅的，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Boldwood was listlessly noting how the frost had hardened and glazed the surface of the snow, till it shone in the red eastern light with the polish of marble; how, in some portions of the slope, withered grass-bents, encased in icicles, bristled through the smooth wan coverlet in the twisted and curved shapes of old Venetian glass; and how the footprints of a few birds, which had hopped over the snow whilst it lay in the state of a soft fleece, were now frozen to a short permanency.
-- A few clear and thread-like horizontal lines were the only interruption to the otherwise smooth surface of his large forehead.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The paneled walls of that apartment were once painted some color, now a matter of conjecture, for the surface is incrusted with accumulated layers of grimy deposit, which cover it with fantastic outlines.
-- You may survey its surface and describe it; but no matter how numerous and painstaking the toilers in this sea, there will always be lonely and unexplored regions in its depths, caverns unknown, flowers and pearls and monsters of the deep overlooked or forgotten by the divers of literature.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The surface is very uneven, ris-ing like the waves of a troubled sea, descending low, and interspersed by rifts that sink deep.
-- Nature decayed around me, and the sun became heatless; rain and snow poured around me; mighty rivers were frozen; the surface of the earth was hard and chill, and bare, and I found no shelter.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The uncultivated fields, studded with tiny pines and underbrush, that stretched their rolling red-clay surface away into the distance on four sides belonged to Gerald O'Hara were all his because he had anunbefuddled Irish head and the courage to stake everything on a hand of cards.
-- She thought of Ashley wounded, dying in afar-off Yankee prison, with no blankets over him, with no one who loved him to hold his hand, and she was filled withhate for the well-fed man who sat beside her, jeers just beneath the surface of his drawling voice.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Almost as soon as he had spoken, a portly upright man (whom I can see now, as I write) in a well-worn olive-colored frock-coat, with a peculiar pallor overspreading the red in his complexion, and eyes that went wandering about when he tried to fix them, came up to a corner of the bars, and put his hand to his hat--which had a greasy and fatty surface like cold broth--with a half-serious and half-jocose military salute.
-- But I thought with dread that it was flowing towards Magwitch, and that any black mark on its surface might be his pursuers, going swiftly, silently, and surely, to take him.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the time was long to him, and he looked at the reflection of his face on the surface of the water.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be 164 Gulliver's Travelsthe most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.'
-- The plates of iron fastened at the bottom of the box (for those were the strongest) preserved the bal-ance while it fell, and hindered it from being broken on the surface of the water.
-- At the centre of the island there is a chasm about fifty yards in diameter, whence the astronomers descend into a large dome, which is therefore called flandona gagnole, or the astronomer's cave, situated at the depth of a hundred yards beneath the upper surface of the adamant.
-- For, if the town intended to be destroyed should have in it any tall rocks, as it generally falls out in the larger cities, a situation probably chosen at first with a view to prevent 214 Gulliver's Travelssuch a catastrophe; or if it abound in high spires, or pil-lars of stone, a sudden fall might endanger the bottom or under surface of the island, which, although it consist, as I have said, of one entire adamant, two hundred yards thick, might happen to crack by too great a shock, or burst by ap-proaching too near the fires from the houses below, as the backs, both of iron and stone, will often do in our chimneys.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not a grain of anger with them was in his heart; he knew them, far below their surface weaknesses and misconceptions, as no one but their fellow-labourer could.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are about three hundred volcanoes on the whole surface of the globe--but the greater number are extinct.
-- Perhaps a common barometer would not have done as well, the atmospheric pressure being likely to increase in proportion as we descended below the surface of the earth.
-- This disposition of the soil is called hraun: the crumbled lava on the surface was in some instances like ship cables stretched out horizontally, in others coiled up in heaps; an immense field of lava came from the neighboring mountains, all extinct volcanoes, but whose remains showed what once they had been.
-- The undulation of these infinite numbers of mountains, whose snowy summits make them look as if covered by foam, recalled to my remembrance the surface of a storm-beaten ocean.
-- It was to all appearance taking us back to the surface of the earth.
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 colliers at Tevershall were talking again of a strike, and it seemed to Connie there again it was not a manifestation of energy, it was the bruise of the war that had been in abeyance, slowly rising to the surface and creating the great ache of unrest, and stupor of discontent.
-- Hardly even the surface of her mind was tickled at the glowing prospects he offered her.
-- I have been to the depths of the muddy lies of the Bertha Couttses of this world, and when, released from the current of gossip, I slowly rise to the surface again, I look at the daylight its wonder that it ever should be.
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