crystal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 水晶, 水晶饰品, 质量最好的玻璃器皿, 结晶体，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then TPatroclus drew near to Achilles with tears welling from his eyes, as from some spring whose crystal stream falls over the ledges of a high precipice.
-- The crystal cave was filled with their multitude and they all beat their breasts while Thetis led them in their lament.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just as the particle of water in frost, definitely and unalterably, takes the special form of the crystal of snow, so each new person that arrived at the springs was at once placed in his special place.
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 spring, which many long years before had induced the natives to select the place for their temporary fortification, was soon cleared of leaves, and a fountain of crystal gushed from the bed, diffusing its waters over the verdant hillock.
-- See,' he added, pointing to a place where the water trickled from a rock, forming a little crystal spring, before it found an is-sue through the adjacent crevices; 'you may easily get rid of the Sagamore's daub, and when you come back I will try my hand at a new embellishment.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stared at a shining flask till it fascinated him like a crystal ball.
-- In their car, in that moving curtained room under the crystal dome- light, Joyce beamed at him.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pert injunction was like those crystal substances which, colourless themselves, assume the tone of objects about them.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when the dancing and toasting were finally ended and the dawn was coming, when all the Atlanta guests whocould be crowded into Tara and the overseer's house had gone to sleep on beds, sofas and pallets on the floor and allthe neighbors had gone home to rest in preparation for the wedding at Twelve Oaks the next day, then the dreamliketrance shattered like crystal before reality.
-- Of a sudden, the oft-told family tales to which she had listened since babyhood, listened half-bored, impatient andbut partly comprehending, were crystal clear.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two crystal plates separated us from the sea.
-- The obscurity of the saloon showed to advantage the brightness outside, and we looked out as if this pure crystal had been the glass of an immense aquarium.
-- Some reflected the light of day upon a thousand crystal facets.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She looked at him, as he leaned back against the faint crystal of the lantern-light.
-- Her hands lay on the paddle like slumber, she only wanted to see him, like a crystal shadow, to feel his essential presence.
-- When he was gone Ursula felt such a poignant hatred of him, that all her brain seemed turned into a sharp crystal of fine hatred.
-- Here at last she folded her venture and settled down like a crystal in the navel of snow, and was gone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was likewise deeply apologetic for wanting the salt; and, feeling amiably bound to bear out Mr. Bounderby to the fullest extent in the testimony he had borne to her nerves, occasionally sat back in her chair and silently wept; at which periods a tear of large dimensions, like a crystal ear-ring, might be observed (or rather, must be, for it insisted on public notice) sliding down her Roman nose.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up flaked up, with rose-water snow.
-- I mean no disparagement to the excellent voyager (I honor him for a veteran), but in so important a matter it was certainly an oversight not to have procured for every crystal a sworn affidavit taken before a Greenland Justice of the Peace.
-- Then come out those fiery effulgences, infernally superb; then the evil-blazing diamond, once the divinest symbol of the crystal skies, looks like some crown-jewel stolen from the King of Hell.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The blue heaven, holding its one golden orb, poured down a crystal wash of warm light.
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