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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everyone knew now that the fate of the Confederacyrested as much upon the skill of the blockade boats in eluding the Yankee fleet as it did upon the soldiers at the front.
-- Carreen must be dying if she was so far beyond Ellen's medical skill that Gerald was hunting a doctor!As thecourier went off in a small whirlwind of red dust, Scarlett tore open Gerald's letter with fingers that trembled.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Drummle upon this, informed our host that he much preferred our room to our company, and that as to skill he was more than our master, and that as to strength he could scatter us like chaff.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, that a time might soon come for you to turn your skill to some account!'
-- Then there arose a quarrel be-tween them; and the star-gazer said, 'If I had not found the princess out, all your skill would have been of no use; there-fore she ought to be mine.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The author shows his skill in navigation.
-- Here I often used to row for my own diversion, as well as that of the queen and 147her ladies, who thought themselves well entertained with my skill and agility.
-- He shows his skill in music.
-- As to the decision of civil causes, or proceedings against criminals, their precedents are so few, that they have little reason to boast of any extraordinary skill in either.
-- The women were proposed to be taxed according to their beauty and skill in dressing, wherein they had the same privilege with the men, to be determined by their own judg-ment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had reached this point when Mr Merdle came home from his daily occupation of causing the British name to be more and more respected in all parts of the civilised globe capable of the appreciation of world-wide commercial enterprise and gigantic combinations of skill and capital.
-- But Little Dorrit's solicitude to get to her father, and to carry the joyful tidings to him, and not to leave him in his jail a moment with this happiness in store for him and still unknown to him, did more for her speedy restoration than all the skill and attention on earth could have done.
-- Miss Fanny was excessively courteous to her, and said the usual nothings with the skill of a veteran.
-- Bar could not at once return to his inveiglements of the most enlightened and remarkable jury he had ever seen in that box, with whom, he could tell his learned friend, no shallow sophistry would go down, and no unhappily abused professional tact and skill prevail (this was the way he meant to begin with them); so he said he would go too, and would loiter to and fro near the house while his friend was inside.
-- There had been something dreadful in the noiseless skill of his cold, white hands, with the fingers lithely twisting about and twining one over another like serpents.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even when he went away, and her mother was called to devote her skill and energy to Soldiers' Aid Societies, Beth went faithfully on by her-self and did the best she could.
-- At any rate, his skill reminds him of the woman he did not like, and so he 'glowered' as Jo said.'
-- 'Thank you, that sounds pleasant,' began Mr. Brooke, looking cheerful again, but before he could finish his speech, Ned, mounted on the old horse, came lumbering up to dis-play his equestrian skill before the young ladies, and there was no more quiet that day.
-- Meg, my dear, I value the womanly skill which keeps home happy more than white hands or fashionable accomplishments.
-- cried Laurie, promenading down the path with Amy, with such infectious spirit and skill that everyone else followed their example without a murmur.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At any time it is a strange sight to the tyro to see with what wondrous habitude of unconscious skill the whaleman will maintain an erect posture in his boat, even when pitched about by the most riotously perverse and cross-running seas.
-- But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas have ever been regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and repelling; though we know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita, so that Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his one superficial western one; though, by vast odds, the most terrific of all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen tens and hundreds of thousands of those who have gone upon the waters; though but a moment's consideration will teach, that however baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.
-- And thus, through the courage and great skill in obstetrics of Queequeg, the deliverance, or rather, delivery of Tashtego, was successfully accomplished, in the teeth, too, of the most untoward and apparently hopeless impediments; which is a lesson by no means to be forgotten.
-- But to render this acuteness at all successful in the end, the wind and the sea must be the whaleman's allies; for of what present avail to the becalmed or windbound mariner is the skill that assures him he is exactly ninety-three leagues and a quarter from his port?
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