shirt是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 衬衫,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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He might be seen any day sailing like a gray shadow along the walks of the Jardin des Plantes, on his head a shabby cap, a cane with an old yellow ivory handle in the tips of his thin fingers; the outspread skirts of his threadbare overcoat failed to conceal his meagre figure; his breeches hung loosely on his shrunken limbs; the thin, blue-stockinged legs trembled like those of a drunken man; there was a notable breach of continuity between the dingy white waistcoat and crumpled shirt frills and the cravat twisted about a throat like a turkey gobbler's; altogether, his appearance set people wondering whether this outlandish ghost belonged to the audacious race of the sons of Japhet who flutter about on the Boulevard Italien.
-- Vauquer's astonished eyes beheld no less than eighteen cambric-fronted shirts, the splendor of their fineness being enhanced by a pair of pins each bearing a large diamond, and connected by a short chain, an ornament which adorned the vermicelli-maker's shirt front.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She had been on the front porch and he had ridden up the long avenue, dressed in gray broadcloth with a wideblack cravat setting off his frilled shirt to perfection.
-- Then he hastily set about smoothinghis hair and settling his ruffled shirt and his cravat which had slipped awry behind one ear.
-- Pork brought forth his favorite ruffled shirt, so inexpertly mended by the chambermaid as to be unwearable by anyoneexcept his valet "Mist' Gerald," said Pork, gratefully rolling up the shirt as Gerald fumed, "whut you needs is a wife, and a wifewhut has got plen'y of house niggers."
-- He was well turned out in mustard-coloredtrousers and black coat and his pleated shirt was topped by the widest and most fashionable of black cravats.
-- His severe black suit, with fineruffled shirt and trousers smartly strapped beneath high insteps, was oddly at variance with his physique and face, forhe was foppishly groomed, the clothes of a dandy on a body that was powerful and latently dangerous in its lazy grace.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Joe," said I, taking hold of his rolled-up shirt sleeve, and twisting it between my finger and thumb, "you remember all that about Miss Havisham's?"
-- "I don't know what possessed me, Joe," I replied, letting his shirt sleeve go, and sitting down in the ashes at his feet, hanging my head; "but I wish you hadn't taught me to call Knaves at cards Jacks; and I wish my boots weren't so thick nor my hands so coarse."
-- And then fell to pulling off, not only his jacket and waistcoat, but his shirt too, in a manner at once light-hearted, business-like, and bloodthirsty.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In this exercise I once met an accident, which had like to have cost me my life; for, one of the pages having put my boat into the trough, the governess who attended Glumdal-clitch very officiously lifted me up, to place me in the boat: but I happened to slip through her fingers, and should in-fallibly have fallen down forty feet upon the floor, if, by the luckiest chance in the world, I had not been stopped by a corking-pin that stuck in the good gentlewoman's stomach-er; the head of the pin passing between my shirt and the waistband of my breeches, and thus I was held by the mid-dle in the air, till Glumdalclitch ran to my relief.
-- When he came I was fast asleep, my clothes fallen off on one side, and my shirt above my waist.
-- I let my shirt down to my waist, and drew up the bottom; fastening it like a girdle about my middle, to hide my nakedness.
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:
-- He was in trousers and flannel shirt and a grey tie, his hair soft and damp, his face rather pale and worn-looking.
-- He threw one or two dry ones down, put his coat and waistcoat over them, and she had to lie down there under the boughs of the tree, like an animal, while he waited, standing there in his shirt and breeches, watching her with haunted eyes.
-- He caught his shirt off the floor, and held it to him, com-ing to her.
-- He dropped the shirt and stood still looking towards her.
-- After a while, he reached for his shirt and put it on,dressed himself swiftly in silence, looked at her once as she still lay naked and faintly golden like a Gloire de Dijon rose on the bed, and was gone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Earrings in his brown ears, white teeth lighting up his grotesque brown face, intensely black hair clustering about his brown throat, a ragged red shirt open at his brown breast.
-- In the society of Mr Rugg, who had a round white visage, as if all his blushes had been drawn out of him long ago, and who had a ragged yellow head like a worn-out hearth broom; and in the society of Miss Rugg, who had little nankeen spots, like shirt buttons, all over her face, and whose own yellow tresses were rather scrubby than luxuriant; Mr Pancks had usually dined on Sundays for some few years, and had twice a week, or so, enjoyed an evening collation of bread, Dutch cheese, and porter.
-- His coarse shirt and his coarse neckcloth have no more individuality than his coat and hat; they have the same character of not being his of not being anybody's.
-- On coming back with the wine in his hand, he found that she had placed her father in his easy chair, and had loosened his shirt and neckcloth.
-- He went down, and there found a man without hat or coat, whose shirt sleeves were rolled up tight to his shoulders.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Buxom ladies and dropiscal infants, Rubens, and Turner appeared in tempests of blue thunder, orange lightning, brown rain, and purple clouds, with a tomato-colored splash in the middle, which might be the sun or a bouy, a sailor's shirt or a king's robe, as the spectator pleased.
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