dress是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 服装， 童装， 女装v. 穿衣， 打扮，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It held a branch of fresh green holly in its hand; and, in sin-gular contradiction of that wintry emblem, had its dress trimmed with summer flowers.
-- But now a knocking at the door was heard, and such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet the father, who came home attended by a man laden with Christmas toys and presents.
-- Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy com-mand: for this is thy dominion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Mr. Cruncher, who all this time had been putting on his clothes, 'if I ain't, what with piety and one blowed thing 77and another, been choused this last week into as bad luck as ever a poor devil of a honest tradesman met with!Young Jerry, dress yourself, my boy, and while I clean my boots keep a eye upon your mother now and then, and if you see any signs of more flopping, give me a call.
-- If the Day of Judgment had only been ascertained to be a dress day, everybody there would have been eternally correct.
-- Dress was the one unfailing talisman and charm used for keeping all things in their places.
-- The bronze face, the shaggy black hair and beard, the coarse woollen red cap, the rough medley dress of home-spun stuff and hairy skins of beasts, the powerful frame attenuated by spare living, and the sullen and desper-ate compression of the lips in sleep, inspired the mender of roads with awe.
-- 'Rise and dress yourself, emigrant.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One might have thought at first they were servants come to accompany their mis-tresses home; but on looking nearer, one soon saw they could scarcely be mere servants; their forms were too noble for that, their skin too fine, the cut of their dress too strik-ing.
-- The white dress is hanging on the hook; it was washed in the teapot, and dried on the roof.
-- One of them had to go home to try on a ball-dress; for it was just the dress and the ball which had caused her to be confirmed this time, for otherwise she would not have come; the other was a poor boy, who had borrowed his coat and boots to be confirmed in from the innkeeper's son, and he was to give them back by a certain hour; the third said that he never went to a strange place if his parents were not with him that he had always been a good boy hitherto, and would still be so now that he was confirmed, and that one ought not to laugh at him for it: the others, however, did make fun of him, after all.
-- 'One must dress according to the weather,' said she.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked Stepan Arkadyevitch, hearing the rustle of a woman's dress at the door.
-- "Well now, do dress me."
-- "How was it you used to say you would never wear European dress again?"
-- There was apparently nothing striking either in her dress or her attitude.
-- When the Tatar appeared with a bill for twenty-six roubles and odd kopecks, besides a tip for himself, Levin, who would another time have been horrified, like any one from the country, at his share of fourteen roubles, did not notice it, paid, and set off homewards to dress and go to the Shtcherbatskys' there to decide his fate.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he breakfasted or dined all the resources of the club its kitchens and pantries, its buttery and dairy aided to crowd his table with their most succulent stores; he was served by the gravest waiters, in dress coats, and shoes with swan-skin soles, who proffered the viands in special porcelain, and on the finest linen; club decanters, of a lost mould, contained his sherry, his port, and his cinnamon-spiced claret; while his beverages were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes.
-- At last he came upon an elderly, crusty Jew, who sold second-hand articles, and from whom he purchased a dress of Scotch stuff, a large mantle, and a fine otter-skin pelisse, for which he did not hesitate to pay seventy-five pounds.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why couldn't you work on a newspaper, where you'd have to dress decently and meet nice people?"
-- I'll go to Newport and play golf and wear a dress suit every night."
-- You bring me up to train with a lot of fellows that have all the cash in the world, and then you expect me to dress like a hobo!"
-- And wearing dress clothes a night like this!You know, I mean all the crazy things I say in my lectures, but let us now forget being earnest, let us drink, let us sing 'Der Graf von Luxemburg,' let us detach exquisite girls from their escorts, let us discuss the joys of 'Die Meistersinger,' which only I appreciate!"
-- Where they dress for dinner but all of them have heard about James Joyce.
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