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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He held her fan in one hand and his untouched plate of barbecue in the otherand stubbornly refused to meet the eyes of Honey, who seemed on the verge of an outburst of tears.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he fell into such unaccountable fits of meditation, with his fork midway between his plate and his mouth; had his eyes attracted in such strange directions; was afflicted with such remarkable coughs; sat so far from the table, and dropped so much more than he ate, and pretended that he hadn't dropped it; that I was heartily glad when Herbert left us for the City.
-- Selecting from the few queer houses upon Mill Pond Bank a house with a wooden front and three stories of bow-window (not bay-window, which is another thing), I looked at the plate upon the door, and read there, Mrs. Whimple.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as she had done this, the frog said, 'Put your plate nearer to me, that I may eat out of it.'
-- The girl reached the plate to him, but the king's son threw off the quilt, and said: 'You old sin-ner, why did you want to kill me?
-- said the wife, 'and I am so full of distress and uneas-iness that my teeth chatter, and I feel as if there were a fire in my veins,' and she tore open her dress; and all the while 235little Marleen sat in the corner and wept, and the plate on her knees was wet with her tears.
-- But when anything to eat was put upon her plate, he took it away and ate it himself; and when a glass of wine was handed to her, he took it and drank it; and thus, though they kept on giving her meat and drink, her plate and cup were always empty.
-- Now the little dwarf was getting their dinner ready, and he brought their food upon seven little plates, and their drink in seven little glasses, and set them upon the table, and out of each little plate their sister ate a small piece, and out of each little glass she drank a small drop; but she let the ring that she had brought with her fall into the last glass.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Within each of these was enclosed a prodi-gious plate of steel; which, by our orders, we obliged him to show us, because we apprehended they might be dangerous engines.
-- The bottom, or under surface, which appears to those who view it below, is one even regular plate of adamant, shooting up to the height of about two hundred yards.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Take down the third atlas from the second shelf, series Z, plate 4."
-- The fall of the electric globe has turned all the iron on board into loadstones--the instruments, the tools, the arms are clanging together with awful and horrible noise; the nails of my heavy boots adhere closely to the plate of iron incrustated in the wood.
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：
-- He pushed his plate aside and went to the back place; she heard a latch click, then he came back with cheese on a plate, and butter.
-- 'Shall I take your plate away?'
-- He sat on the one chair, with his plate on his knees.
-- Silent, he put his plate on the tray and went downstairs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They looked tempting; eight in number, circularly set out on a white plate on a tray covered with a white napkin, flanked by a slice of buttered French roll, and a little compact glass of cool wine and water; but she resisted all persuasions, and sent them down again placing the act to her credit, no doubt, in her Eternal Day-Book.
-- Successful in this, happy in carrying off her plate anywhere, to make a table of her lap, or a box, or the ground, or even as was supposed, to stand on tip-toe, dining moderately at a mantel-shelf; the great anxiety of Little Dorrit's day was set at rest.
-- All this time, though he had finished his supper, he was nervously going about his plate with his knife and fork, as if some of it were still before him.
-- The footman (who had as many large buttons with the Barnacle crest upon them on the flaps of his pockets, as if he were the family strong box, and carried the plate and jewels about with him buttoned up) pondered over the card a little; then said, 'Walk in.'
-- At length he pushed his plate from him, and spoke aloud; with the strangest inconsistency.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And there was Laurie, with a full cup in one hand and a plate of ice in the other.
-- Laurie sat bold upright, and meekly took her empty plate feeling an odd sort of pleasure in having 'little Amy' order him about, for she had lost her shyness now, and felt an ir-restible desire to trample on him, as girls have a delightful way of doing when lords of creation show any signs of sub-jection.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But high above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, there floated a little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angel's face; and this bright face shed a distinct spot of radiance upon the ship's tossed deck, something like that silver plate now inserted into the Victory's plank where Nelson fell.
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