coat是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 上衣， 外套； 表皮； 层， 覆盖物v. 涂(盖) 上，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Putting his hand in his coat pocket, he could hold the end of the handle all the way, so that it did not swing; and as the coat was very full, a regu-lar sack in fact, it could not be seen from outside that he was holding something with the hand that was in the pocket.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The captain himself was in the lastextremity of shabbiness, with large whiskers, and an old, oldbrown great-coat with no other coat below it.
-- But, as most of themhad, hanging up among their stock, an officer's coat or two,epaulettes and all, I was rendered timid by the costly nature oftheir dealings, and walked about for a long time without offeringmy merchandise to any one.
-- He was dressed like any other 187ordinary gentleman, in a loose grey morning coat and waist- coat,and white trousers; and had his watch in his fob, and his money inhis pockets: which he rattled as if he were very proud of it.
-- Atlast I awake, very queer about the head, as from a giddy sleep, andsee the butcher walking off, congratulated by the two otherbutchers and the sweep and publican, and putting on his coat as hegoes; from which I augur, justly, that the victory is his.
-- When I undrew the curtains and looked out of bed, I saw him, inan equable temperature of respectability, unaffected by the eastwind of January, and not even breathing frostily, standing myboots right and left in the first dancing position, and blowingspecks of dust off my coat as he laid it down like a baby.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wore a low-crowned felt hat, spread out at the base by tight jamming upon the head for security in high winds, and a coat like Dr. Johnson's; his lower extremities being encased in ordinary leather leggings and boots emphatically large, affording to each foot a roomy apartment so constructed that any wearer might stand in a river all day long and know nothing of damp their maker being a conscientious man who endeavoured to compensate for any weakness in his cut by unstinted dimension and solidity.
-- George, the elder, exhibited an ebony-tipped nose, surrounded by a narrow margin of pink flesh, and a coat marked in random splotches approximating in colour to white and slaty grey; but the grey, after years of sun and rain, had been scorched and washed out of the more prominent locks, leaving them of a reddish-brown, as if the blue component of the grey had faded, like the indigo from the same kind of colour in Turner's pictures.
-- The gentleman-farmer was dressed in cheerful style, in a new coat and white waistcoat, quite contrasting with his usual sober suits of grey.
-- She sidled off inch by inch, the lantern in her hand, till she could see the redness of his coat no longer.
-- In ascending to her own chamber, Bathsheba opened the girl's door an inch or two, and, panting, said "Liddy, is any soldier staying in the village sergeant somebody rather gentlemanly for a sergeant, and good looking a red coat with blue facings?"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ordinarily he wore a shabby coat and waistcoat, the limp black cravat, untidily knotted, that students affect, trousers that matched the rest of his costume, and boots that had been resoled.
-- He usually wore a coat of corn-flower blue; his rotund and portly person was still further set off by a clean white waistcoat, and a gold chain and seals which dangled over that broad expanse.
-- To begin with, the sight of the fair carefully arranged curls on the other's comely head had convinced him that his own crop was hideous; Maxime's boots, moreover, were elegant and spotless, while his own, in spite of all his care, bore some traces of his recent walk; and, finally, Maxime's overcoat fitted the outline of his figure gracefully, he looked like a pretty woman, while Eugene was wearing a black coat at half-past two.
-- And now I am going to spoil my hat and coat into the bargain.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was well turned out in mustard-coloredtrousers and black coat and his pleated shirt was topped by the widest and most fashionable of black cravats.
-- Rhett Butler removed a fine linen handkerchief from his coat pocket andidly flicked dust from his sleeve.
-- As if every movement was agony, Gerald removed his wallet from his coat and opened it.
-- Won't my coat be a surprise?
-- That coat for Ashley was a sore subject with Scarlett, for she wished so ardently that she and not Melanie werebestowing it as a Christmas gift.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Joe had got his coat and waistcoat and cravat off, and his leather apron on, and passed into the forge.
-- In his lay capacity, he persisted in sitting down in the damp to such an insane extent, that when his coat was taken off to be dried at the kitchen fire, the circumstantial evidence on his trousers would have hanged him, if it had been a capital offence.
-- with the feeble malice of a tired man; but, as he had no theory, and no coat on, he was unanimously set at naught,--not to mention his smoking hard behind, as he stood with his back to the kitchen fire to draw the damp out: which was not calculated to inspire confidence.
-- No one remained now but the excitable Jew, who had already raised the skirts of Mr. Jaggers's coat to his lips several times.
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