decoration是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 装饰物，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：
-- For, the rooms, though a beautiful scene to look at, and adorned with every device of decoration that the taste and skill of the time could achieve, were, in truth, not a sound business; considered with any reference to the scarecrows in the rags and nightcaps elsewhere (and not so far off, ei-ther, but that the watching towers of Notre Dame, almost equidistant from the two extremes, could see them both), they would have been an exceedingly uncomfortable busi-148 A tale of two citiesness if that could have been anybody's business, at the house of Monseigneur.
-- Either Saint Antoine had an instinctive sense that the objectionable decoration was gone, or Saint Antoine was on the watch for its disappear-ance; howbeit, the Saint took courage to lounge in, very shortly afterwards, and the wine-shop recovered its habit-262 A tale of two citiesual aspect.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he began, at first rather diffidently, but more and more carried away by the subject as he went on, to draw her attention to the various details of the decoration of his house and garden.
-- The dinner, the wine, the decoration of the table were all very good; but it was all like what Darya Alexandrovna had seen at formal dinners and balls which of late years had become quite unfamiliar to her; it all had the same impersonal and constrained character, and so on an ordinary day and in a little circle of friends it made a disagreeable impression on her.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw him receive a decoration from His Imperial Highness the Kaiser.
-- The warrior who had been telling of feeding five thousand Tatars, of receiving a degree from a Chinese university and refusing a decoration from quite a good Balkan king, looked affectionately on his band of one disciple and demanded, "Was it all right--was it?
-- VI Aware only of Madeline Fox and Orchid Pickerbaugh, who were Nice American Girls, of soon- forgotten ladies of the night, and of Leora, who, in her indolence, her indifference to decoration and good fame, was neither woman nor wife but only her own self, Martin knew nothing whatever about Women.
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：
-- But at that moment a gentleman in civilian uniform and an overcoat a solid- looking official of about fifty with a decoration on his neck (which delighted Katerina Ivanov-na and had its effect on the policeman) approached and without a word handed her a green three-rouble note.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Miss Mowcher, finding that I was not at presentdisposed for any decoration within the range of her art, and that Iwas, for the time being, proof against the blandishments of thesmall bottle which she held up before one eye to enforce herpersuasions, said she would make a beginning on an early day,and requested the aid of my hand to descend from her elevatedstation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The chests were taken out with all convenient despatch, and taken in to be unlocked by Mrs Jarley, who, attended by George and another man in velveteen shorts and a drab hat ornamented with turnpike tickets, were waiting to dispose their contents (consisting of red festoons and other ornamental devices in upholstery work) to the best advantage in the decoration of the room.
-- Nell immediately applied herself with great assiduity to the decoration and preparation of the room, and had the satisfaction of completing her task, and dressing herself neatly, before the beloved of the Royal Family came down to breakfast.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Gudrun had a sash of brilliant black and pink and yellow colour wound broadly round her waist, and she had pink silk stockings, and black and pink and yellow decoration on the brim of her hat, weighing it down a little.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was nothing about him in the way of decoration but a watch, which was lowered into the depths of its proper pocket by an old black ribbon, and had a tarnished copper key moored above it, to show where it was sunk.
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：
-- "For a long time I could not get out of my head the recollection of the extraordinary decoration with which Strickland had covered the walls of his house," he said reflectively.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And therefore, let not the knights of that honorable company (none of whom, I venture to say, have ever had to do with a whale like their great patron), let them never eye a Nantucketer with disdain, since even in our woollen frocks and tarred trowsers we are much better entitled to St. George's decoration than they.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One afternoon, the Dodger and Master Bates being engaged out that evening, the first-named young gentleman took it into his head to evince some anxiety regarding the decoration of his person (to do him justice, this was by no means an habitual weakness with him); and, with this end and aim, he condescendingly commanded Oliver to assist him in his toilet, straightway.
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