scarlet是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 猩红色a. 猩红的，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wore the costume of the Patagonians on the frontiers, consisting of a splendid cloak, ornamented with scarlet arabesques, made of the skins of the guanaco, sewed together with ostrich tendons, and with the silky wool turned up on the edge.
-- The blue flowers of the slender-leaved flax, combined with the bright hues of the scarlet acanthus, a flower peculiar to the country.
-- An intermittent jet of scarlet blood flowed from it; the patient's paleness and weakness showed that he was seriously injured.
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：
-- Outside the sun was sinking low and the west was blaz-ing with scarlet and gold.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Meges struck the topmost crest of Dolops's bronze helmet with his spear and tore away its plume of horse-hair, so that all newly dyed with scarlet as it was it tumbled down into the dust.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Have some of this,' said he, and gave me a dose of some scarlet stuff, iced.
-- I was startled by a great patch of vivid scarlet on the ground, and going up to it found it to be a peculiar fungus, branched and corrugated like a foliaceous lichen, but deli-quescing into slime at the touch; and then in the shadow of some luxuriant ferns I came upon an unpleasant thing, the dead body of a rabbit covered with shining flies, but still warm and with the head torn off.
-- They were naked, save for swathings of scarlet cloth about the middle; and their skins were of a dull pinkish-drab colour, such as I had seen in no savages before.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He met with more adventures than can be told, and narrowly escaped being caught by the Basking Shark, and the Spotted Shark, and the Hammerhead, and he met all the untrustworthy ruffians that loaf up and down the seas, and the heavy polite fish, and the scarlet spotted scallops that are moored in one place for hundreds of years, and grow very proud of it; but he never met Sea Cow, and he never found an island that he could fancy.
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：
-- 'The Sixtieth!you can tell me little of the Royal Ameri-cans that I don't know, though I do wear a hunting-shirt instead of a scarlet jacket.'
-- 'He mistake a Mohican in his paint for a Huron!You would be as likely to mistake the white-coated grenadiers of Montcalm for the scarlet jackets of the Royal Americans,' returned the scout.
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 schooners moored to the quay are trim and neat, the little town along the bay is white and urbane, and the flamboyants, scarlet against the blue sky, flaunt their colour like a cry of passion.
-- Italian, Spanish, Japanese, coloured; some are fat and some are thin; and under the thick paint on their faces, the heavy smears on their eyebrows, and the scarlet of their lips, you see the lines of age and the scars of dissipation.
-- A mango grew in front of the house, and at the edge of the clearing were two flamboyants, twin trees, that challenged the gold of the cocoa-nuts with their scarlet flowers.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The water became red with blood, and the body of the dugong, emerging from the sheet of scarlet which spread around, soon stranded on a little beach at the south angle of the lake.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She looked up suddenly, with reddened eyes, and with her hands suspended, in the act of pinching her neck, freshly disfigured with great scarlet blots.
-- It looked over the wall, if you stood on tip-toe; and, with a trellis-work of scarlet beans and a canary or so, would become a very Arbour.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That looks too pretty to eat,' he said, smiling with plea-sure, as Jo uncovered the dish, and showed the blancmange, surrounded by a garland of green leaves, and the scarlet flowers of Amy's pet geranium.
-- Scarlet with shame and anger, Amy went to and fro six dreadful times, and as each doomed couple, looking oh, so plump and juicy, fell from her reluc-tant hands, a shout from the street completed the anguish of the girls, for it told them that their feast was being exulted over by the little Irish children, who were their sworn foes.
-- The lobster was a scarlet mystery to her, but she hammered and poked till it was unshelled and its meager proportions con-cealed in a grove of lettuce leaves.
-- She turned scarlet and was on the verge of crying, when she met Laurie's eyes, which would look merry in spite of his heroic efforts.
-- 'Scarlet and gray boating suit, good enough for me.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was next to impossible that their cousin should come in a scarlet coat, and it was now some weeks since they had received pleasure from the society of a man in any other colour.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was flushing scarlet to the roots of her hair, but Drouet did not catch the full hue of her face, owing to the modified light of the room.
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