skill是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 技能， 技巧， 手艺； 熟练，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an immediate dispersal for these restoratives, and she softly laid the patient on a sofa, and tended her with great skill and gentleness: calling her 'my precious!'
-- 83 Making his way through the tainted crowd, dispersed up and down this hideous scene of action, with the skill of a man accustomed to make his way quietly, the messen-ger found out the door he sought, and handed in his letter through a trap in it.
-- His scientific knowledge, and his vigilance and skill in conducting ingenious experiments, brought him otherwise into moderate request, and he earned as much as he wanted.
-- For, the rooms, though a beautiful scene to look at, and adorned with every device of decoration that the taste and skill of the time could achieve, were, in truth, not a sound business; considered with any reference to the scarecrows in the rags and nightcaps elsewhere (and not so far off, ei-ther, but that the watching towers of Notre Dame, almost equidistant from the two extremes, could see them both), they would have been an exceedingly uncomfortable busi-148 A tale of two citiesness if that could have been anybody's business, at the house of Monseigneur.
-- As to the nature of the case, our confidence in your skill assures us that you will ascertain it for yourself better than we can de-scribe it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vronsky liked him both for his exceptional physical strength, which he showed for the most part by being able to drink like a fish, and do without sleep without being in the slightest degree affected by it; and for his great strength of character, which he showed in his relations with his comrades and superior officers, commanding both fear and respect, and also at cards, when he would play for tens of thousands and however much he might have drunk, always with such skill and decision that he was reckoned the best player in the English Club.
-- But specialized trials of skill are a sign of development."
-- Sergey Ivanovitch was unequaled in his skill in winding up the most heated and serious argument by some unexpected pinch of Attic salt that changed the disposition of his opponent.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A flunkey handed him an uncut Times, which he proceeded to cut with a skill which betrayed familiarity with this delicate operation.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upper berth or lower was the same to him, and till Martin was hardened to cold and fatigue, Terry did more than his share of wood-cutting and supply-toting, and with great melody and skill he washed their clothes.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I saw clearly that it was too na脙炉vely expressed, and that perhaps he simply has no skill in writing 芒聙娄 that is a true criticism, brother.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her namewas Mrs. Markleham: but our boys used to call her the OldSoldier, on account of her generalship, and the skill with which shemarshalled great forces of relations against the Doctor.
-- I take it, thathad its effect upon me, as a touch of nature; but the skill withwhich the one followed up whatever the other said, was a touch ofart which I was still less proof against.
-- It gave me no manner of concern thatSteerforth should find me a novice in these sciences, but I nevercould bear to show my want of skill before the respectableLittimer.
-- Ilearned, there, that he had gone to Lowestoft, to meet some suddenexigency of ship-repairing in which his skill was required; but thathe would be back to-morrow morning, in good time.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling to have others deceived, or sorry to know her rep-utation for accomplishment often higher than it deserved.
-- There was no want of likeness, she had been fortunate in the attitude, and as she meant to throw in a little improvement to the figure, to give a little more height, and considerably more elegance, she had great confidence of its being in ev-ery way a pretty drawing at last, and of its filling its destined place with credit to them both a standing memorial of the beauty of one, the skill of the other, and the friendship of both; with as many other agreeable associations as Mr. El-ton's very promising attachment was likely to add.
-- He had frightened her a little about Mr. Elton; but when she considered that Mr. Knightley could not have observed him as she had done, neither with the interest, nor (she must be allowed to tell herself, in spite of Mr. Knightley's preten-sions) with the skill of such an observer on such a question as herself, that he had spoken it hastily and in anger, she was able to believe, that he had rather said what he wished resentfully to be true, than what he knew any thing about.
-- She appeared to me to play 244 Emmawell, that is, with considerable taste, but I know nothing of the matter myself. I am excessively fond of music, but without the smallest skill or right of judging of any body's performance. I have been used to hear her's admired; and I remember one proof of her being thought to play well: a man, a very musical man, and in love with another wom-an engaged to her on the point of marriage would yet never ask that other woman to sit down to the instrument, if the lady in question could sit down instead never seemed to like to hear one if he could hear the other.
-- Mrs. Churchill had been recommended to the medical skill of an eminent person there, and had otherwise a fancy for the place.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor Boldwood had no more skill in finesse than a battering-ram, and he was uneasy with a sense of having made himself to appear stupid and, what was worse, mean.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But for his observant curiosity, and the skill with which he managed to introduce himself into the salons of Paris, this story would not have been colored by the tones of truth which it certainly owes to him, for they are entirely due to his penetrating sagacity and desire to fathom the mysteries of an appalling condition of things, which was concealed as carefully by the victim as by those who had brought it to pass.
-- Goriot was an elderly libertine, whose eyes had only been preserved by the skill of the physician from the malign influence of the remedies necessitated by the state of his health.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The raising of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favourite authors, the fulfillment of which I most eagerly sought; and if my incantations were always unsuccessful, I attributed the fail-ure rather to my own inexperience and mistake than to a want of skill or fidelity in my instructors.
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