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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They pushed on as quickly as possible, hoping to reach Lake Salado, on the shores of the ocean, the same day; and at 8 P. M., when they found themselves in front of the sand hills two hundred feet high, which skirt the coast, they were all tolerably tired.
-- I think it certainly more prudent to avoid this village of Ngarnavahia, to skirt it at a distance, so as to avoid all encounters with the natives.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her bulky figure in a shawl and skirt might have been comic were it not for the intensity of feeling upon her face.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On his way he collided against Ptitsin's chair, and put his dirty foot on the lace skirt of the silent lady's dress; but he neither apologized for this, nor even noticed it.
-- She whispered, and walked on tip-toe; she car-ried her skirt over her arm, so that it shouldn't rustle, and she held up her finger at me on the stairs, so that I shouldn't make a noise it was you she was afraid of.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Matkah taught him to follow the cod and the halibut along the under-sea banks and wrench the rockling out of his hole among the weeds; how to skirt the wrecks lying a hundred fathoms below water and dart like a rifle bullet in at one porthole and out at an-other as the fishes ran; how to dance on the top of the waves when the lightning was racing all over the sky, and wave his flipper politely to the stumpy-tailed Albatross and the Man-of-war Hawk as they went down the wind; how to jump three or four feet clear of the water like a dolphin, flippers close to the side and tail curved; to leave the flying fish alone because they are all bony; to take the shoulder-piece out of a cod at full speed ten fathoms deep, and never to stop and look at a boat or a ship, but particularly a row-boat.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The colonists, walking apart, but not straying far from each other, began to skirt the edge of the lake, which was very steep.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prisoner raised her skirt with the customary movement of a fashionable lady, arranging her train, and sat down, folding her hands in the sleeves of her coat, and still looking at the justiciary.
-- At that moment a chanter with a copper coffee-pot in his hand passed close to Katiousha, and, without looking at her, grazed her with the skirt of the surplice.
-- "I could write once," she said, smiling, and, arranging her skirt and waist-sleeve, sat down, clumsily took the pen into her small, energetic hand, began to laugh and looked round at Nekhludoff.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She looked hungrily at the frocks floating by, butter-yellowwatered silks with garlands of rosebuds; pink satins with eighteen flounces edged with tiny black velvet ribbons; babyblue taffeta, ten yards in the skirt and foamy with cascading lace; exposed bosoms; seductive flowers.
-- Then she turned blindly, benton flight into the refreshment rooms, but her skirt caught on a nail of the booth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On a wintry afternoon at twilight, Mrs Flintwinch, having been heavy all day, dreamed this dream:She thought she was in the kitchen getting the kettle ready for tea, and was warming herself with her feet upon the fender and the skirt of her gown tucked up, before the collapsed fire in the middle of the grate, bordered on either hand by a deep cold black ravine.
-- More afraid of her husband at the moment than of the mysterious sound in the kitchen, Affery crept away as lightly and as quickly as she could, descended the kitchen stairs almost as rapidly as she had ascended them, resumed her seat before the fire, tucked up her skirt again, and finally threw her apron over her head.
-- Thus expressing himself, he threw the draggled skirt of his cloak over his shoulder, and accompanied Mr Flintwinch to the tavern; taking up on the road a porter who was waiting with his portmanteau on the outer side of the gateway.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I was trying to get something for Meg, who is very tired, and someone shook me, and here I am in a nice state,' an-swered Jo, glancing dismally from the stained skirt to the coffee-colored glove.
-- 'While I dress, do you drill her, Nan, in the management of her skirt and those French heels, or she will trip herself up.
-- Meg smiled and relented, and whispered as they stood waiting to catch the time, 'Take care my skirt doesn't trip you up.
-- For Jo sat on the grass, with an encampment of boys about her, and a dirty-footed dog reposing on the skirt of her state and festival dress, as she related one of Laurie's pranks to her admiring audience.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- inquired Toby: fastening a small crowbar to a loop inside the skirt of his coat.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She dressed herself in a worn shirt-waist of dotted blue percale, a skirt of light-brown serge rather faded, and a small straw hat which she had worn all summer at Columbia City.
-- At Carson, Pirie's he bought her a nice skirt and shirt waist.
-- Her skirt was of a rich blue material, and her shirt waist matched it, with a thin- stripe of blue upon a snow-white ground--stripes that were as fine as hairs.
-- The rustle of her pretty skirt was like music to him.
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