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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To-day, for example, its surface was broken by a very un-expected ripple, which has caused our friend considerable perplexity and annoyance.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it has always struck me, both in speak-ing to such men and in reading their books, that they do not seem really to be touching on that at all, though on the surface they may appear to do so.
-- His mirth seemed very near the surface this evening.
-- There was no spot on its dirty surface that I did not know by heart.
-- I always say so and uphold it, because even if your surface mind be a little affected (of course you will not feel angry with me for talking so I am speaking from a higher point of view) yet your real mind is far better than all theirs put together.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rain, too, would make me a watery outline, a glistening surface of a man a bubble.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It all lay in the surface of practical anatomy years ago, but no one had the temerity to touch it.
-- First one animal trait, then another, creeps to the surface and stares out at me.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A heavy evening breeze swept along the surface of the river, and seemed to drive the roar of the falls into the recesses of their own cavern, whence it issued heavily and constant, like thun-der rumbling beyond the distant hills.
-- When, however, they gained the flattened surface of the mountain-top, and approached the eastern precipice, she recognized the spot to which she had once before been led under the more friendly auspices of the scout.
-- Heyward was silent until the Indians had cautiously paddled the canoe some distance from the fort, and within the broad and dark shadows that fell from the eastern mountain on the glassy surface of the lake; then he demanded: 'What need have we for this stolen and hurried depar-ture?'
-- The well-known crack of a rifle, whose ball came skipping along the placid surface of the strait, and a shrill yell from the island, interrupted his speech, and announced that their passage was discovered.
-- It fell upon the white surface of the mountain, and was reflected downward upon a dark and mysterious-looking being that arose, unexpectedly, in their path.
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：
-- A faint colour came into her cheeks, and then her face became white more than white, ghastly; you felt that the blood had shrunk away from the whole surface of her body; and even her hands were pale.
-- In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, and you can only gain a true knowledge of him by inferences from little actions, of which he is unconscious, and from fleeting expressions, which cross his face unknown to him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beneath the lower point of the balloon swung a car, containing five passengers, scarcely visible in the midst of the thick vapor mingled with spray which hung over the surface of the ocean.
-- The watery expanse did not present a single speck of land, not a solid surface upon which their anchor could hold.
-- The car was only a sort of willow basket, unable to float, and there was not the slightest possibility of maintaining it on the surface of the sea.
-- At four o'clock the balloon was only 500 feet above the surface of the water.
-- A hot sun soon penetrated to the surface of the island.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was soon done, and he handed it over to Mr Codlin with that creamy froth upon the surface which is one of the happy circumstances attendant on mulled malt.
-- One circumstance troubled Mr Swiveller's mind very much, and that was that the small servant always remained somewhere in the bowels of the earth under Bevis Marks, and never came to the surface unless the single gentleman rang his bell, when she would answer it and immediately disappear again.
-- A long suburb of red brick houses some with patches of garden-ground, where coal-dust and factory smoke darkened the shrinking leaves, and coarse rank flowers, and where the struggling vegetation sickened and sank under the hot breath of kiln and furnace, making them by its presence seem yet more blighting and unwholesome than in the town itself a long, flat, straggling suburb passed, they came, by slow degrees, upon a cheerless region, where not a blade of grass was seen to grow, where not a bud put forth its promise in the spring, where nothing green could live but on the surface of the stagnant pools, which here and there lay idly sweltering by the black road-side.
-- 'The town's as flat, my dear feller,' replied Mr Chuckster, 'as the surface of a Dutch oven.
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