oval是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /a. 卵形(的) , 椭圆形(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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It appeared as if it were, little by little, collapsing, and that its case was lengthening and extending, passing from a spherical to an oval form.
-- The front of Granite House was then to be lighted by five windows and a door, besides a large bay window and some smaller oval ones, which would admit plenty of light to enter into the marvelous nave which was to be their chief room.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No-tice that the oval has some slight modification it is more rounded.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Over the easy chair there hung in a gold frame an oval portrait of Anna, a fine painting by a celebrated artist.
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：
-- The furniture, all very old and of yellow wood, consisted of a sofa with a huge bent wooden back, an oval table in front of the sofa, a dressing-table with a looking-glass fixed on it between the windows, chairs along the walls and two or three half-penny prints in yellow frames, representing German damsels with birds in their hands that was all.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Murdstone's heavy eyebrows followed me to the door-I say her eyebrows rather than her eyes; because they were muchmore important in her face- and she looked so exactly as she usedto look at about that hour of the morning, in our parlour atBlunderstone, that I could have fancied I had been breaking downin my lessons again, and that the dead weight on my mind wasthat horrible old spelling-book with oval woodcuts, shaped, to myyouthful fancy, like the glasses out of spectacles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The spot was at Chelsea, for there Miss Sophia Wackles resided with her widowed mother and two sisters, in conjunction with whom she maintained a very small day-school for young ladies of proportionate dimensions; a circumstance which was made known to the neighbourhood by an oval board over the front first-floor windows, whereupon appeared in circumambient flourishes the words 'Ladies' Seminary'; and which was further published and proclaimed at intervals between the hours of half-past nine and ten in the morning, by a straggling and solitary young lady of tender years standing on the scraper on the tips of her toes and making futile attempts to reach the knocker with a spelling-book.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the outer margin of the Pit was an oval pond, and over it hung the attenuated skeleton of a chrome-yellow moon which had only a few days to last the morning star dogging her on the left hand.
-- In the centre was a small oval enclosure; this was left blank, that the sender might insert tender words more appropriate to the special occasion than any generalities by a printer could possibly be.
-- This yearly gathering was upon the summit of a hill which retained in good preservation the remains of an ancient earthwork, consisting of a huge rampart and entrenchment of an oval form encircling the top of the hill, though somewhat broken down here and there.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The round are made into bracelets, the oval into pendants, and, being more precious, are sold singly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She turned, being then in the brightness of a lamp; and raising her hood a little, showed a quiet oval face, dark and rather delicate, irradiated by a pair of very gentle eyes, and further set off by the perfect order of her shining black hair.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At certain intervals, and below this natural basin, the eye was pleased and surprised by the sight of oval openings through which the outward waves came thundering in volleys of foam.
-- The cumuli, a perfectly oval kind of cloud, piled upon the south, presented a most awful and sinister appearance, with the pitiless aspect often seen before a storm.
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：
-- Up the drive she came, tooting up the incline, then sweeping round the oval of grass, where the two great wild beech-trees stood, on the flat in front of the house.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Halloa!I almost forgot the little oval slate, smoothed ivory, where he figures up the latitude.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- or, "Have you seen the new gloves with the oval pearl buttons?"
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