plate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 金属板， 片； 盘子， 盆子； 板， 钢板v. 镀， 电镀，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：
-- Your plate was stowed away among the neighbouring cesspools, and evil communications corrupted its good polish in a day or two.
-- Such a present of plate as you have made 'em, is enough to bring tears into anybody's eyes.
-- What money would be drawn out of Tellson's henceforth, and what would lie there, lost and forgotten; what plate and jewels would tarnish in Tellson's hiding-places, while the depositors rusted in prisons, and when they should have vi-olently perished; how many accounts with Tellson's never to be balanced in this world, must be carried over into the next; no man could have said, that night, any more than Mr. Jarvis Lorry could, though he thought heavily of these questions.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'll do it," said Dolly, and getting up, she carefully passed the spoon over the frothing sugar, and from time to time shook off the clinging jam from the spoon by knocking it on a plate that was covered with yellow-red scum and blood-colored syrup.
-- Go to that table, and make haste and take a seat," said the prince, and turning away he carefully took a plate of eel soup.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was intimidated by the luminous cases of mahogany and plate glass, by the opera hats and lustrous mufflers and creamy riding breeches.
-- Sometimes, at midnight, just as he began to realize that he was hungry, he would find that a plate of sandwiches had by silent magic appeared at his elbow.
-- Most centrifuges are hand- or water- power contrivances the size of a large cocktail-shaker, but this noble implement was four feet across, electrically driven, the central bowl enclosed in armor plate fastened with levers like a submarine hatch, the whole mounted on a cement pillar.
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：
-- Nastasya came in with a candle and a plate of soup.
-- Sonia had a feeling that Katerina Ivanovna had already heard this and an insult to Sonia meant more to Katerina Ivanovna than an insult to herself, her children, or her father, Sonia knew that Katerina Ivanovna would not be satisfied now, 'till she had shown those draggletails that they were both 芒聙娄' To make matters worse someone passed Sonia, from the other end of the table, a plate with two hearts pierced with an arrow, cut out of black bread.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What meals I had in silence and embarrassment, always feelingthat there were a knife and fork too many, and those mine; anappetite too many, and that mine; a plate and chair too many, andthose mine; a somebody too many, and that I!
-- When I dined 156regularly and handsomely, I had a saveloy and a penny loaf, or afourpenny plate of red beef from a cook's shop; or a plate of breadand cheese and a glass of beer, from a miserable old public-houseopposite our place of business, called the Lion, or the Lion andsomething else that I have forgotten.
-- 'I have parted with the plate myself,' said Mrs. Micawber.
-- Hewept; but so far recovered, almost immediately, as to ring the bellfor the waiter, and bespeak a hot kidney pudding and a plate ofshrimps for breakfast in the morning.
-- One of them informed me that hehad heard that Mr. Spenlow ate entirely off plate and china; andanother hinted at champagne being constantly on draught, after theusual custom of table beer.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Boldwood handed towards her a plate of cut bread-and-butter; when, in order to take a slice, she put the note into her left hand, where she was still holding the purse, and then allowed her hand to drop beside her close to the canvas.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His cupboards (_ormoires_, as he called them in the popular dialect) were filled with a quantity of plate that he brought with him.
-- Towards the end of the first year the widow's suspicions had reached such a pitch that she began to wonder how it was that a retired merchant with a secure income of seven or eight thousand livres, the owner of such magnificent plate and jewelry handsome enough for a kept mistress, should be living in her house.
-- The table was upturned, and Goriot had doubtless in some way secured a silver plate and cup to the bar before knotting a thick rope round them; he was pulling at this rope with such enormous force that they were being crushed and twisted out of shape; to all appearance he meant to convert the richly wrought metal into ingots.
-- Vauquer came down, just in time to see the cat knock down a plate that covered a bowl of milk, and begin to lap in all haste.
-- They buy old spoons and forks and gold lace there, and Goriot sold a piece of silver plate for a good round sum.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mammystood beside the table, watching every forkful that traveled from plate to mouth, as though she intended to force thefood down Ellen's throat should she see signs of flagging.
-- She had scarcely touched plate in her hands and seven cavaliers about her.
-- She dropped her eyes to her plate and nibbled daintily on a beaten biscuit with an elegance and an utter lack ofappetite that would have won Mammy's approval.
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