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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dresses, less splendid than the dress she wore, and half-packed trunks, were scattered about.
-- I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.
-- I saw that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose had shrunk to skin and bone.
-- Once, I had been taken to one of our old marsh churches to see a skeleton in the ashes of a rich dress that had been dug out of a vault under the church pavement.
-- Before she spoke again, she turned her eyes from me, and looked at the dress she wore, and at the dressing-table, and finally at herself in the looking-glass.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bridegroom sat at the top, with the false princess on one side, and the true one on the other; but nobody knew her 77again, for her beauty was quite dazzling to their eyes; and she did not seem at all like the little goose-girl, now that she had her brilliant dress on.
-- Last night, old Sanna carried so many buckets of water into the house that I asked her why she was doing that, and she said that if I would promise not to tell anyone, and she said that early tomorrow morning when father was out hunting, she would set the kettle full of water, throw you into it and boil you; but we will get up quickly, dress our-selves, and go away together.'
-- 180 Grimms' Fairy Tales Then the blood ran cold in her heart with spite and mal-ice, to see that Snowdrop still lived; and she dressed herself up again, but in quite another dress from the one she wore before, and took with her a poisoned comb.
-- Then her friend the bird flew out of the tree, and brought a gold and silver dress for her, and slippers of spangled silk; and she put them on, and followed her sisters to the feast.
-- And the bird came and brought a still finer dress than the one she had worn the day before.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His dress was very plain and simple, and the fashion of it between the Asiatic and the European; but he had on his head a light helmet of gold, adorned with jewels, and a plume on the crest.
-- They are dressed by men till four years of age, and then are obliged to dress themselves, although their qual-ity be ever so great; and the women attendant, who are aged proportionably to ours at fifty, perform only the most menial offices.
-- In the female nurseries, the young girls of quality are educated much like the males, only they are dressed by or-derly servants of their own sex; but always in the presence of a professor or deputy, till they come to dress themselves, which is at five years old.
-- I had three hundred cooks to dress my victuals, in little convenient huts built about my house, where they and their families lived, and prepared me two dishes a-piece.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cold is not excessive, if you are wrapped in furs a dress which I have already adopted, for there is a great difference between walking the deck and remaining seated motionless for hours, when no exercise prevents the blood from actually freezing in your veins.
-- I tried, therefore, to dress my food in the same manner, placing it on the live embers.
-- 'One night during my accustomed visit to the neighbour- ing wood where I collected my own food and brought home firing for my protectors, I found on the ground a leathern portmanteau containing several articles of dress and some books.
-- Soon after my arrival in the hovel I discov-ered some papers in the pocket of the dress which I had taken from your laboratory.
-- How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!I constructed another sail with a part of my dress and eagerly steered my course towards the land.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her new green flowered-muslin dress spread its twelve yards ofbillowing material over her hoops and exactly matched the flat-heeled green morocco slippers her father had recentlybrought her from Atlanta.
-- The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist, the smallest in three counties, andthe tightly fitting basque showed breasts well matured for her sixteen years.
-- No, she just sent for old Doc Fontaine to dress it and asked the doctor what ailed Tony'saim.
-- "Mother, the lace is loose on my new ball dress and I want to wear it tomorrow night at Twelve Oaks.
-- "Mother, Scarlett's new dress is prettier than mine and I look like a fright in pink.
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