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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In that quarter of the town, however, scarce-ly any shortcoming in dress would have created surprise.
-- He was wearing an old and hopelessly ragged black dress coat, with all its buttons missing except one, and that one he had buttoned, evidently clinging to this last trace of respectability.
-- And the whole of that heavenly day of my life and the whole of that evening I passed in fleeting dreams of how I would arrange it all, and how I would dress all the children, and how I should give her rest, and how I should rescue my own daughter from dishonour and restore her to the bosom of her family芒聙娄.
-- She had on a dress of some light silky ma-terial, but put on strangely awry, not properly hooked up, and torn open at the top of the skirt, close to the waist: a great piece was rent and hanging loose.
-- Look at the way her dress is torn, and the way it has been put on: she has been dressed by somebody, she has not dressed herself, and dressed by un-practised hands, by a man's hands; that's evident.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a short pause which ensued, she had a fancy that shefelt Miss Betsey touch her hair, and that with no ungentle hand;but, looking at her, in her timid hope, she found that lady sittingwith the skirt of her dress tucked up, her hands folded on oneknee, and her feet upon the fender, frowning at the fire.
-- Her dress was of a lavender colour, and perfectly neat; butscantily made, as if she desired to be as little encumbered aspossible.
-- My aunt smoothed her dress and shook her head, as if shesmoothed defiance of the whole world out of the one, and shook itout of the other.
-- When I dress (theoccupation of two hours), for a great ball given at the Larkins's (theanticipation of three weeks), I indulge my fancy with pleasingimages.
-- Then outof a very little, she could dress herself, you see, better than mostothers could out of a deal, and that made things unpleasant.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall not attempt calling on Mrs. Goddard, for I really do not think she cares for any thing but boiled pork: when we dress the leg it will be another thing.
-- A bride, you know, must appear like a bride, but my natural taste is all for simplicity; a simple style of dress is so infinitely pref-erable to finery.
-- After a good many compliments to Jane on her dress and look, compliments very quietly and properly tak-en, Mrs. Elton was evidently wanting to be complimented herself and it was, 'How do you like my gown? How do you like my trimming? How has Wright done my hair?
-- Mrs. Elton then said, 'Nobody can think less of dress in general than I do but upon such an occa-sion as this, when every body's eyes are so much upon me, and in compliment to the Westons who I have no doubt are giving this ball chiefly to do me honour I would not wish to be inferior to others.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had she been put into a low dress she would have run and thrust her head into a bush.
-- A woman's dress being a part of her countenance, and any disorder in the one being of the same nature with a malformation or wound in the other, Bathsheba said at once "I can't see him in this state.
-- She then rose; but before retiring, addressed a few words to them with a pretty dignity, to which her mourning dress added a soberness that was hardly to be found in the words themselves.
-- Then this small thesmothete stepped from the table, and surged out of the hall, her black silk dress licking up a few straws and dragging them along with a scratching noise upon the floor.
-- "I must cut your dress if you are in such a hurry."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every one came down in dressing-gown and slippers, and the conversation usually turned on anything that had happened the evening before; comments on the dress or appearance of the dinner contingent were exchanged in friendly confidence.
-- The outlines of her figure, revealed by her dress of the simplest and cheapest materials, were also youthful.
-- After much serious consideration the two widows went shopping together--they purchased a hat adorned with ostrich feathers and a cap at the Palais Royal, and the Countess took her friend to the Magasin de la Petite Jeannette, where they chose a dress and a scarf.
-- Vauquer (not yet dressed) heard the rustle of a silk dress and a young woman's light footstep on the stair; some one was going to Goriot's room.
-- Sylvie saw not a trace of resemblance between this great lady and the girl in her simple morning dress who had entered her kitchen on the occasion of her first visit.
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