red是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 红的， 红色的n. 红色； 红色颜料，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses.
-- The wife of a whaling captain had provided the chapel with a handsome pair of red worsted man-ropes for this ladder, which, being itself nicely headed, and stained with a mahogany colour, the whole contrivance, considering what manner of chapel it was, seemed by no means in bad taste.
-- I was called from these reflections by the sight of a freckled woman with yellow hair and a yellow gown, standing in the porch of the inn, under a dull red lamp swinging there, that looked much like an injured eye, and carrying on a brisk scolding with a man in a purple woollen shirt.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the top of the table, seated in an arm -chair rather higher than the rest, was a particularly fat gentleman with a very round, red face.
-- 'Well!You have come here to be educated, and taught a useful trade,' said the red -faced gentleman in the high chair.
-- 'I despise 'em,' said the beadle, growing very red in the face.
-- It is difficult for a large-headed, small-eyed youth, of lumbering make and heavy countenance, to look dignified under any circumstances; but it is more especially so, when superadded to these personal attractions are a red nose and yellow smalls.
-- And here, Noah nodded his head expressively; and curled up as much of his small red nose as muscular action could collect together, for the occasion.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember the time when I liked a red coat myself very well and, indeed, so I do still at my heart; and if a smart young colonel, with five or six thousand a year, should want one of my girls I shall not say nay to him; and I thought Colonel Forster looked very becoming the other night at Sir William's in his regimentals.'
-- Chapter 18 ill Elizabeth entered the drawing-room at Netherfield, Tand looked in vain for Mr. Wickham among the cluster of red coats there assembled, a doubt of his being present had never occurred to her.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It happened after some time, making a pretty large fire for cooking my meat, when I went to put it out after I had done with it, I found a broken piece of one of my earthenware vessels in the fire, burnt as hard as a stone, and red as a tile.
-- When I saw them clear red, I let them stand in that heat about five or six hours, till I found one of them, though it did not crack, did melt or run; for the sand which was mixed with the clay melted by the violence of the heat, and would have run into glass if I had gone on; so I slacked my fire gradually till the pots began to abate of the red colour; and watching them all night, that I might not let the fire abate too fast, in the morning I had three very good (I will not say hand-some) pipkins, and two other earthen pots, as hard burnt as could be desired, and one of them perfectly glazed with the running of the sand.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Marianne felt for her most sincerely; but she did more harm than good to the cause, by turning very red and saying in an angry manner to Margaret,"Remember that whatever your conjectures may be, you have no right to repeat them."
-- Her eyes were red and swollen; and it seemed as if her tears were even then restrained with difficulty.
-- As for the navy, it had fashion on its side, but I was too old when the subject was first started to enter it and, at length, as there was no necessity for my having any profession at all, as I might be as dashing and expensive without a red coat on my back as with one, idleness was pronounced on the whole to be most advantageous and honourable, and a young man of eighteen is not in general so earnestly bent on being busy as to resist the solicitations of his friends to do nothing.
-- So I looked at it directly, and, 'Lord!my dear,' says I, 'it is nothing in the world, but the red gum ' and nurse said just the same.
-- But Charlotte, she would not be satisfied, so Mr. Donavan was sent for; and luckily he happened to just come in from Harley Street, so he stepped over directly, and as soon as ever he saw the child, he said just as we did, that it was nothing in the world but the red gum, and then Charlotte was easy.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only the ashes of all her fine fancies were remaining--ashes still concealing, nevertheless, a few red embers of hope.
-- The thoroughfare, in this part, was like a walled canon of brown stone and dark red brick.
-- said Hurstwood, glancing at a gentleman just entering, arrayed in a high hat and Prince Albert coat, his fat cheeks puffed and red as with good eating.
-- She caught her little red lip with her teeth and felt her first thrill of power.
-- There was a good Brussels carpet on the floor, rich in dull red and lemon shades, and representing large jardinieres filled with gorgeous, impossible flowers.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a big fire-place that was bricked on the bottom, and the bricks was kept clean and red by pouring water on them and scrubbing them with another brick; some- times they wash them over with red water-paint that they call Spanish-brown, same as they do in town.
-- This table had a cover made out of beautiful oilcloth, with a red and blue spread-eagle painted on it, and a painted bor-der all around.
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