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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been brought up at the castle by the Glenarvan family, and had turned out a capital sailor, having already given proof, in some of his long voyages, of his skill and energy and sang-froid.
-- This surname had, no doubt, come from his skill in handling fire-arms.
-- It required great skill to drive such a long, narrow, shaky concern, and to guide such a team by a goad; but Ayrton had served his apprenticeship to it on the Irishman's farm, and Paddy could answer for his competency.
-- An elegant brake was intended for the ladies, in which the coachman could exhibit his skill in driving four-in-hand.
-- The planks of the vehicle groaned at the unexpected jolts, which Ayrton with all his skill could not prevent.
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：
-- Always there was this feeling of an unseen force, a fine net drawn round us with infinite skill and delicacy, holding us so lightly that it was only at some supreme moment that one realized that one was indeed entangled in its meshes.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when the sun's glorious light had faded, they went home to bed, each in his own abode, which lame Vulcan with his consummate skill had fashioned for them.
-- Chromis, and Ennomus the augur, led the Mysians, but his skill in augury availed not to save him from destruction, for he fell by the hand of the fleet descendant of Aeacus in the river, where he slew others also of the Trojans.
-- Diana herself had taught him how to kill every kind of wild creature that is bred in mountain forests, but nei-ther she nor his famed skill in archery could now save him, for the spear of Menelaus struck him in the back as he was flying; it struck him between the shoulders and went right through his chest, so that he fell headlong and his armour rang rattling round him.
-- When they reached the house of cloud-com-pelling Jove, they took their seats in the arcades of polished marble which Vulcan with his consummate skill had made for father Jove.
-- The wood-man does more by skill than by brute force; by skill the pilot guides his storm-tossed barque over the sea, and so by skill one driver can beat another.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the Jungle-People admire us for our skill and our cunning.'
-- I have some skill in these [he held out his hands], and if ever thou art in a trap, I may pay the debt which I owe to thee, to Bagheera, and to Baloo, here.
-- When a driver boasts of his skill and bravery the other driv-ers say, 'And when didst thou see the elephants dance?'
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：
-- Adjusting his rifle, he was about to make an exhibition of that skill on which he so much valued himself, when the warrior struck up the piece with his hand, saying: 'Hawkeye!will you fight the Maquas?'
-- Their sus-pense, however, was soon relieved; for, aided by the skill of the natives, the canoe shot back into the eddy, and floated again at the side of the low rock, before they thought the scout had even time to rejoin his companions.
-- After a last look at Uncas, Cora turne,d and with a quivering lip, addressed herself to Heyward: 'I have heard of your boasted skill in the water, too, Dun-can,' she said; 'follow, then, the wise example set you by these simple and faithful beings.'
-- It was, in truth, the father in quest of his children, attended by the youth who felt so deep a stake in their happiness, and those brave and trusty foresters, who had already proved their skill and fi- delity through the trying scenes related.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As sudden shiftings of the scene, and rapid changes of time and place, are not only sanctioned in books by long usage, but are by many considered as the great art of authorship: an author's skill in his craft being, by such critics, chiefly estimated with relation to the dilemmas in which he leaves his characters at the end of every chapter: this brief introduction to the present one may perhaps be deemed unnecessary.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They attacked him in various ways with barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises; but he eluded the skill of them all, and they were at last obliged to accept the second-hand intelligence of their neighbour, Lady Lucas.
-- If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark.
-- Mr. Wickham was the happy man towards whom almost every female eye was turned, and Elizabeth was the happy woman by whom he finally seated himself; and the agree-able manner in which he immediately fell into conversation, though it was only on its being a wet night, made her feel that the commonest, dullest, most threadbare topic might be rendered interesting by the skill of the speaker.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he had done this, we came back to our castle; and there I fell to work for my man Friday; and first of all, I gave him a pair of linen drawers, which I had out of the poor gunner's chest I mentioned, which I found in the wreck, and which, with a little alteration, fitted him very well; and then I made him a jerkin of goat's skin, as well as my skill would allow (for I was now grown a tolerably good tailor); and I gave him a cap which I made of hare's skin, very con-venient, and fashionable enough; and thus he was clothed, for the present, tolerably well, and was mighty well pleased to see himself almost as well clothed as his master.
-- After this I had been telling him how the devil was God's enemy in the hearts of men, and used all his mal-ice and skill to defeat the good designs of Providence, and to ruin the kingdom of Christ in the world, and the like.
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