jewel是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 宝石， 宝石饰物，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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My worthy Ned," I answered, "to the poet, a pearl is a tear of the sea; to the Orientals, it is a drop of dew solidified; to the ladies, it is a jewel of an oblong shape, of a brilliancy of mother-of-pearl substance, which they wear on their fingers, their necks, or their ears; for the chemist it is a mixture of phosphate and carbonate of lime, with a little gelatine; and lastly, for naturalists, it is simply a morbid secretion of the organ that produces the mother-of-pearl amongst certain bivalves."
-- Its globular shape, perfect clearness, and admirable lustre made it altogether a jewel of inestimable value.
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：
-- Hm 芒聙娄' continued Raskolnikov, turning cold and shivering, 'and the jewel case Nikolay found behind the door was that possible?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here she sat like a crow with hot black taffeta to her wrists and buttoned up to her chin, with not even a hint oflace or braid, not a jewel except Ellen's onyx mourning brooch, watching tacky-looking girls hanging on the arms ofgood-looking men.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Havisham beckoned her to come close, and took up a jewel from the table, and tried its effect upon her fair young bosom and against her pretty brown hair.
-- I noticed that Miss Havisham put down the jewel exactly on the spot from which she had taken it up.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then swiftly, in a flame that drenched down her body like fluid lightning and gave her a perfect, unutterable consummation, unutterable satisfaction, she brought down the ball of jewel stone with all her force, crash on his head.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards, Portuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, Venetians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the shade alike taking refuge in any hiding-place from a sea too intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set with one great flaming jewel of fire.
-- It was not in itself a jewel of benevolence or wisdom, yet he made it an exemplar of both that one would have liked to have a copy of.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To examine and arrange these things gave Amy great satisfaction, especially the jewel cases, in which on velvet cushions reposed the ornaments which had adorned a belle forty years ago.
-- There was the garnet set which Aunt March wore when she came out, the pearls her father gave her on her wedding day, her lover's diamonds, the jet mourning rings and pins, the queer lockets, with portraits of dead friends and weeping willows made of hair inside, the baby bracelets her one little daughter had worn, Uncle March's big watch, with the red seal so many childish hands had played with, and in a box all by itself lay Aunt March's wed-ding ring, too small now for her fat finger, but put carefully away like the most precious jewel of them all.
-- 'I wish I knew where all these pretty things would go when Aunt March dies,' she said, as she slowly replaced the shining rosary and shut the jewel cases one by one.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could even listen to Sir William Lucas, when he complimented him on carrying away the brightest jewel of the country, and expressed his hopes of their all meeting frequently at St. James's, with very decent composure.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a general craning of necks as the jewel in the white shirt front sparkled and the cab moved off.
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