crooked是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 弯曲的; 欺诈的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little narrow, crooked town of Dover hid itself away from the beach, and ran its head into the chalk cliffs, like a marine ostrich.
-- The raggedest nightcap, awry on the wretchedest head, had this crooked significance in it: 'I know how hard it has grown for me, the wearer of this, to support life in myself; but do you know how easy it has grown for me, the wearer of this, to destroy life in you?'
-- A small, dim, crooked shop, kept in a tortuous, up-hill thoroughfare, by a small, dim, crooked man.
-- As the sombre wheels of the six carts go round, they seem to plough up a long crooked furrow among the popu-lace in the streets.
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：
-- The first heart through which he came, was that of a middle-aged lady, but he instantly fancied himself in the room of the 'Institution for the cure of the crooked and de-formed,' where casts of mis-shapen limbs are displayed in naked reality on the wall.
-- Gerda called still louder, and an old woman then came out of the cottage, leaning upon a crooked stick.
-- And then the old woman went into the water, caught hold of the boat with her crooked stick, drew it to the bank, and lifted little Gerda out.
-- She there-fore went out in the garden, stretched out.her crooked stick towards the rose-bushes, which, beautifully as they were blowing, all sank into the earth and no one could tell where they had stood.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Wait a bit, wait a bit, I know there are nineteen," said Levin, counting a second time over the grouse and snipe, that looked so much less important now, bent and dry and bloodstained, with heads crooked aside, than they did when they were flying.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They sat on a crooked old-fashioned rail-fence where over the sun-soaked bright plantains the first insects of spring were humming.
-- You're not like these hicks; you understand that sometimes a fellow gets mixed up in crooked business he didn't intend to.
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：
-- He was particularly drawn to these clerks by the fact that they both had crooked noses, one bent to the left and the other to the right.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With his faceturned towards me, as he finished, but without looking at me, hetook his crooked thumb off the spot where he had planted it, andslowly and thoughtfully scraped his lank jaw with it, as if he wereshaving himself.
-- So, the crooked courses will becomecrookeder, at any moment, for the least reason, or for none.
-- From babies who had but a week or two of lifebehind them, to crooked old men and women who seemed to havebut a week or two of life before them; and from ploughmen bodilycarrying out soil of England on their boots, to smiths taking awaysamples of its soot and smoke upon their skins; every age andoccupation appeared to be crammed into the narrow compass ofthe 'tween decks.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And he's growed terrible crooked too, lately," Jacob continued, surveying his father's figure, which was rather more bowed than his own.
-- A crooked file of men was approaching the back door.
-- That matters should continue pleasant Maryann spoke, who, what with her brown complexion, and the working wrapper of rusty linsey, had at present the mellow hue of an old sketch in oils notably some of Nicholas Poussin's: "Do anybody know of a crooked man, or a lame, or any second-hand fellow at all that would do for poor me?"
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No," she said, and managed a crooked smile.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To be sure, it was a deserted place, down to the pigeon-house in the brewery-yard, which had been blown crooked on its pole by some high wind, and would have made the pigeons think themselves at sea, if there had been any pigeons there to be rocked by it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the hardest working part of Coketown; in the innermost fortifications of that ugly citadel, where Nature was as strongly bricked out as killing airs and gases were bricked in; at the heart of the labyrinth of narrow courts upon courts, and close streets upon streets, which had come into existence piecemeal, every piece in a violent hurry for some one man's purpose, and the whole an unnatural family, shouldering, and trampling, and pressing one another to death; in the last close nook of this great exhausted receiver, where the chimneys, for want of air to make a draught, were built in an immense variety of stunted and crooked shapes, as though every house put out a sign of the kind of people who might be expected to be born in it; among the multitude of Coketown, generically called 'the Hands,' a race who would have found more favour with some people, if Providence had seen fit to make them only hands, or, like the lower creatures of the seashore, only hands and stomachs lived a certain Stephen Blackpool, forty years of age.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet again, once you had got right down and into the twisted and crooked heart of the town, behind the church, you were in the world of two centuries ago, in the crooked streets where the Chatterley Arms stood, and the old phar-macy, streets which used to lead Out to the wild open world of the castles and stately couchant houses.
-- Upon the old crooked burgess streets hordes of oldish blackened miners' dwellings crowded, lining the roads out.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He crossed by St Paul's and went down, at a long angle, almost to the water's edge, through some of the crooked and descending streets which lie (and lay more crookedly and closely then) between the river and Cheapside.
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