peacock是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 孔雀，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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The green curtains with their peacock design, hung in straight lines, and the green carpet, in the pattern of which pale rabbits frolicked among leafy trees, suggested the influence of William Morris.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once more the little room, with its open 77corner cupboard, and its squarebacked chairs, and its angular littlestaircase leading to the room above, and its three peacock's feathersdisplayed over the mantelpiece- I remember wondering when Ifirst went in, what that peacock would have thought if he hadknown what his finery was doomed to come to- fades from beforeme, and I nod, and sleep.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How Jo laughed, with tears in her eyes, as she declared she might as well be a peacock and done with it.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Shere Khan, and a splendid peacock fluttered up out of the ravine screeching.
-- What Little Toomai liked was to scramble up bridle paths that only an elephant could take; the dip into the val-ley below; the glimpses of the wild elephants browsing miles away; the rush of the frightened pig and peacock under Kala Nag's feet; the blinding warm rains, when all the hills and valleys smoked; the beautiful misty mornings when no-body knew where they would camp that night; the steady, cautious drive of the wild elephants, and the mad rush and blaze and hullabaloo of the last night's drive, when the ele-phants poured into the stockade like boulders in a landslide, found that they could not get out, and flung themselves at the heavy posts only to be driven back by yells and flaring torches and volleys of blank cartridge.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ellen had a beautiful peacock-feather fly-brusher, but it was used only onvery special occasions and then only after domestic struggle, due to the obstinate conviction of Pork, Cookie andMammy that peacock feathers were bad luck.
-- It was full of girls, girls who floated in butterfly bright dresses, hooped outenormously, lace pantalets peeping from beneath; round little white shoulders bare, and faintest traces of soft littlebosoms showing above lace flounces; lace shawls carelessly hanging from arms; fans spangled and painted, fans ofswan's-down and peacock feathers, dangling at wrists by tiny velvet ribbons; girls with masses of golden curls abouttheir necks and fringed gold earbobs that tossed and danced with their dancing curls.
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