cover是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 覆盖， 包括， 涉及n. 盖子， 套子； (书的) 封面，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shepherd has roused the brute to fury but cannot defend his flock, so he takes shelter un-der cover of the buildings, while the sheep, panic-stricken on being deserted, are smothered in heaps one on top of the other, and the angry lion leaps out over the sheep-yard wall.
-- Surely when the Achae-ans have gone home with their ships, you can shatter their wall and fling it into the sea; you can cover the beach with sand again, and the great wall of the Achaeans will then be utterly effaced.'
-- Ninth came Teucer with his bow, and took his place under cover of the shield of Ajax son of Telamon.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Possibly the Invisible Man's original intention was simply to cover Marvel's retreat with the clothes and books.
-- I heard a miaow behind me, and turning, saw a lean white cat, very dirty, on the cistern cover outside the window.
-- It was the only way to cover my trail and no doubt it was insured.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now there is a cloud coming to cover that moon.
-- Mowgli, who naturally knew something about what they were talking of, had to cover his face not to show that he was laughing, while Buldeo, the Tower musket across his knees, climbed on from one wonderful story to another, and Mow-gli's shoulders shook.
-- After that, he learned to lie in a beach pool and let the wash of the waves just cover him and lift him up while he paddled, but he always kept his eye open for big waves that might hurt.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Come, friend,' said Hawkeye, drawing out a keg from be-neath a cover of leaves, toward the close of the repast, and addressing the stranger who sat at his elbow, doing great justice to his culinary skill, 'try a little spruce; 'twill wash away all thoughts of the colt, and quicken the life in your bosom.
-- The longer his nap lasts the better it will be for him, as I doubt whether he can find a proper cover for such a shape on these rocks; and singing won't do any good with the Iroquois.'
-- Though the rock, the trees, and the shrubs, were cut and torn in a hundred places around the besieged, their cover was so close, and so rigidly maintained, that, as yet, David had been the only sufferer in their little band.
-- Here was held another short but earnest consultation, during which the horses, to whose panic their owners as-cribed their heaviest misfortune, were led from the cover of the woods, and brought to the sheltered spot.
-- Uncas, clear out the spring, while your father and I make a cover for their tender heads of these chestnut shoots, and a bed of grass and leaves.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under cover of his character of sing-ing-master, he made frequent visits at the farmhouse; not that he had anything to apprehend from the meddlesome interference of parents, which is so often a stumbling-block in the path of lovers.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She smiled to cover her shyness, and I fancied she had a fear that I would make the sort of gibe that such a confession could hardly have failed to elicit from Rose Waterford.
-- No one runs so hurriedly to the cover of respectability as the unconventional woman who has exposed herself to the slings and arrows of outraged propriety.
-- Under a cover were the remains of a piece of cheese, and in a tin box was a crust of bread.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He dreamed of canals facilitating the transport of the riches of the ground; workings of quarries and mines; machines for every industrial manufacture; railroads; yes, railroads!of which a network would certainly one day cover Lincoln Island.
-- I have often thought of all these things, my friends, and I seriously believe that the aspect of our globe will some day be completely changed; that by the raising of new continents the sea will cover the old, and that, in future ages, a Columbus will go to discover the islands of Chimborazo, of the Himalayas, or of Mont Blanc, remains of a submerged America, Asia, and Europe.
-- Instead of proceeding over the summit of a cliff or along a sandy beach, the settlers were obliged to remain under cover of the trees so that they might continue on the shore.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Codlin sat smiling in the chimney-corner, eyeing the landlord as with a roguish look he held the cover in his hand, and, feigning that his doing so was needful to the welfare of the cookery, suffered the delightful steam to tickle the nostrils of his guest.
-- Having come to the climax, he smacked his lips a great many times, and taking a long hearty sniff of the fragrance that was hovering about, put on the cover again with the air of one whose toils on earth were over.
-- But their steps were no sooner heard upon the road than the landlord, who had been at the outer door anxiously watching for their coming, rushed into the kitchen and took the cover off.
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