skirt是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 裙子； 边缘， 郊区，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：
-- He had taken it up, and was stooping to work again, when his eyes caught the skirt of her dress.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wind seemed as though lying in wait for her; with gleeful whistle it tried to snatch her up and bear her off, but she clung to the cold door post, and holding her skirt got down onto the platform and under the shelter of the carriages.
-- He had only just spoken to her, when suddenly he heard the rustle of a skirt at the door, and Mademoiselle Linon vanished from Levin's eyes, and a joyful terror came over him at the nearness of his happiness.
-- Just look at her in the puce dress--an ambassador's wife they say she is--how her skirt bounces out from side to sides" "What a pretty dear the bride is--like a lamb decked with flowers!Well, say what you will, we women feel for our sister."
-- The rustle of the countess's silk skirt drew his attention off.
-- "I sometimes feel sorry I'm so superfluous here," said Anna, going out of the nursery and holding up her skirt so as to escape the plaything standing in the doorway.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, you'll have one fine young time going on with science after that skirt sets you at tonsil- snatching.
-- But what I can't understand is how after living with Leora, who was the real thing, you can stand a hoity-toity skirt like Joycey!"
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：
-- Anyway, he suddenly heard something like the cautious touch of a hand on the lock and the rustle of a skirt at the very door.
-- The filthy water parted and swallowed up its victim for a moment, but an instant later the drowning woman float-ed to the surface, moving slowly with the current, her head and legs in the water, her skirt inflated like a balloon over her back.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a short pause which ensued, she had a fancy that shefelt Miss Betsey touch her hair, and that with no ungentle hand;but, looking at her, in her timid hope, she found that lady sittingwith the skirt of her dress tucked up, her hands folded on oneknee, and her feet upon the fender, frowning at the fire.
-- Having issued this mandate with as muchpotentiality as if she had been a recognised authority in the houseever since it had been a house, and having looked out to confrontthe amazed Peggotty coming along the passage with a candle at thesound of a strange voice, Miss Betsey shut the door again, and satdown as before; with her feet on the fender, the skirt of her dresstucked up, and her hands folded on one knee.
-- I remember that I thought it, in form, more like a riding-habit with the superfluous skirt cut off, than anything else.
-- Whenit was ready for her, she was ready for it, with her nightcap on, andthe skirt of her gown turned back on her knees.
-- Shedropped on her face, before the imperious figure in the chair, withan imploring effort to clasp the skirt of her dress.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jacob, on receiving the order to see if the liquor was warm enough, placidly dipped his forefinger into it by way of thermometer, and having pronounced it nearly of the proper degree, raised the cup and very civilly attempted to dust some of the ashes from the bottom with the skirt of his smock-frock, because Shepherd Oak was a stranger.
-- The noise approached, came close, and a figure was apparently on the point of gliding past her when something tugged at her skirt and pinned it forcibly to the ground.
-- It was immediately apparent that the military man's spur had become entangled in the gimp which decorated the skirt of her dress.
-- Bathsheba was revolving in her mind whether by a bold and desperate rush she could free herself at the risk of leaving her skirt bodily behind her.
-- Bathsheba flung down the brush, crook, and empty hive, pulled the skirt of her dress tightly round her ankles in a tremendous flurry, and as well as she could slid down the ladder.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The very knitted woolen petticoat that she wears beneath a skirt made of an old gown, with the wadding protruding through the rents in the material, is a sort of epitome of the sitting-room, the dining-room, and the little garden; it discovers the cook, it foreshadows the lodgers--the picture of the house is completed by the portrait of its mistress.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ButFairhill was a difficult plantation to manage and spare time hard to get, and more often than not Nellie walked up anddown riderless hour after hour, while Beatrice Tarleton went through the day with the skirt of her habit absently loopedover her arm and six inches of shining boot showing below it.
-- Cade loungedgracefully on her left, plucking at her skirt to attract her attention and staring up with smoldering eyes at Stuart Alreadythe air was electric between him and the twins and rude words had passed.
-- "Oh, now I've made you cry, too," sobbed Pittypat, in a pleased way, fumbling in her skirt pocket for herhandkerchief.
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