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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Idomeneus mean-while smote Oenomaus in the middle of his belly, and broke the plate of his corslet, whereon his bowels came gushing out and he clutched the earth in the palms of his hands as he fell sprawling in the dust.
-- Ajax in his turn struck noble Phorcys son of Phaenops in the middle of the belly as he was bestriding Hippothous, and broke the plate of his cuirass; whereon the spear tore out his entrails and he clutched the ground in his palm as he fell to earth.
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：
-- I remember a still-life of oranges on a plate, and I was bothered because the plate was not round and the oranges were lop-sided.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The blowing operation had given a cylinder of glass terminated by two hemispheric caps, which were easily detached by means of a sharp iron dipped in cold water; then, by the same proceeding, this cylinder was cut lengthways, and after having been rendered malleable by a second heating, it was extended on a plate and spread out with a wooden roller.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pony appeared to be touched by this appeal to his feelings, for he trotted on directly, though in a sulky manner, and stopped no more until he came to a door whereon was a brass plate with the words 'Witherden Notary.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No!And when reaching out his knife and fork, between which the slice of beef was locked, Ahab thereby motioned Starbuck's plate towards him, the mate received his meat as though receiving alms; and cut it tenderly; and a little started if, perchance, the knife grazed against the plate; and chewed it noiselessly; and swallowed it, not without circumspection.
-- Days, weeks passed, and under easy sail, the ivory Pequod had slowly swept across four several cruising-grounds; that off the Azores; off the Cape de Verdes; on the Plate (so called), being off the mouth of the Rio de la Plata; and the Carrol Ground, an unstaked, watery locality, southerly from St. Helena.
-- By my retentive memory of the hieroglyphics upon one Sperm Whale in particular, I was much struck with a plate representing the old Indian characters chiselled on the famous hieroglyphic palisades on the banks of the Upper Mississippi.
-- Indeed, place this reversed skull (scaled down to the human magnitude) among a plate of men's skulls, and you would involuntarily confound it with them; and remarking the depressions on one part of its summit, in phrenological phrase you would say This man had no self-esteem, and no veneration.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he demanded, with a sneer, whether the housekeeper was in the habit of counting the plate at night; because if she didn't find a table-spoon or two missing some sunshiny morning, why, he would be content to--and so forth.
-- 'She's bid havid a plate of boiled beef id the bar,' replied Barney.
-- I wouldn't cut a boy off: no, not even Brittles here; not for all the plate in the county, sir.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dinner was exceedingly handsome, and there were all the servants and all the articles of plate which Mr. Col-lins had promised; and, as he had likewise foretold, he took his seat at the bottom of the table, by her ladyship's desire, and looked as if he felt that life could furnish nothing great-er.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A valuable legacy indeed!And yet some of the plate would have been a very pleasant addition to our own stock here."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From his coat sleeves protruded a pair of linen cuffs of the same pattern, fastened with large, gold plate buttons, set with the common yellow agates known as "cat's-eyes."
-- On the way, she encountered a great wholesale shoe company, through the broad plate windows of which she saw an enclosed executive department, hidden by frosted glass.
-- Its windows were of huge plate glass.
-- The meat to which he helped himself remained on his plate untouched.
-- Carrie studied the art of making biscuit, and soon reached the stage where she could show a plate of light, palatable morsels for her labour.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Loll around, pass the plate and one thing or another.
-- Jimmy ' (that's one of the children)' 'run and tell Lize to put on another plate for dinner.'
-- And, besides, I've already told 'em to put on another plate when I see you coming; so you mustn't disap- point us.
-- Jim can do that; and when he wants to send any little common ordinary mysterious message to let the world know where he's captivated, he can write it on the bottom of a tin plate with a fork and throw it out of the window.
-- All HE'S got to do is to write on the plate and throw it out.
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