wipe是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 擦， 揩， 抹，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：
-- Jerry, left alone in the mist and darkness, dismounted meanwhile, not only to ease his spent horse, but to wipe the mud from his face, and shake the wet out of his hat-brim, which might be capable of holding about half a gallon.
-- They looked at one another, as he used his blue cap to wipe his face, on which the perspiration had started afresh while he recalled the spectacle.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And immediately after this came the delicious, slow saunter, with his hand on the scythe, during which he could wipe away the streaming sweat, take deep breaths of air, and look about at the long string of mowers and at what was happening around in the forest and the country.
-- "That is not and will not be, and she wants to wipe it out of her memory.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He reflected (it was an international debate in which he was joined by a few and damned by many) that half a dozen generations nearly free from epidemics would produce a race so low in natural immunity that when a great plague, suddenly springing from almost-zero to a world-smothering cloud, appeared again, it might wipe out the world entire, so that the measures to save lives to which he lent his genius might in the end be the destruction of all human life.
-- He found a sort of maid, and came home to help, to wipe the dishes and sweep the front walk.
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：
-- The first thing he did was to wipe his blood- stained hands on the red brocade.
-- he pulled out his handkerchief to wipe the blood, which flowed in a thin stream down his right temple.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One thing I particularly noticed in this delightfulhouse, was the smell of fish; which was so searching, that when Itook out my pocket-handkerchief to wipe my nose, I found it smeltexactly as if it had wrapped up a lobster.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then they stood in a state of some embarrassment, Bathsheba trying to wipe her dreadfully drenched and inflamed face without his noticing her.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though Goriot's eyes seemed to have shrunk in their sockets, though they were weak and watery, owing to some glandular affection which compelled him to wipe them continually, she considered him to be a very gentlemanly and pleasant-looking man.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Agatha listened with respect, her eyes sometimes filled with tears, which she endeavoured to wipe away un-perceived; but I generally found that her countenance and tone were more cheerful after having listened to the ex-hortations of her father.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He should thank God on bended knee for a girl with your how did he putit? 'passion for living,' but being a poor-spirited wretch " "You aren't fit to wipe his boots!"
-- Ifonly she had the right to sit there beside him, her arm through his!If only she could pat his sleeve every few minutes tomake sure he was really there, hold his hand and use his handkerchief to wipe away her tears of joy.
-- The heat of the fire made sweat stream downhis forehead and cheeks but he did not wipe it off.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, she gave the knife a final smart wipe on the edge of the plaster, and then sawed a very thick round off the loaf: which she finally, before separating from the loaf, hewed into two halves, of which Joe got one, and I the other.
-- We told him why we wanted him to come into the kitchen, and he slowly laid down his hammer, wiped his brow with his arm, took another wipe at it with his apron, and came slouching out, with a curious loose vagabond bend in the knees that strongly distinguished him.
-- It had an unusually large jack-towel on a roller inside the door, and he would wash his hands, and wipe them and dry them all over this towel, whenever he came in from a police court or dismissed a client from his room.
-- "Good-bye, dear Joe!--No, don't wipe it off--for God's sake, give me your blackened hand!--I shall be down soon and often."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An hour or two afterwards the landlord got up, and took his handkerchief to wipe his face, but the pin ran into him and pricked him: then he walked into the kitchen to light his pipe at the fire, but when he stirred it up the eggshells flew into his eyes, and almost blinded him.
-- When Mr Korbes came home, he went to the fireplace to make a fire; but the cat threw all the ashes in his eyes: so he ran to the kitchen to wash himself; but there the duck splashed all the water in his face; and when he tried to wipe himself, the egg broke to pieces in the towel all over his face and eyes.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He advised great statesmen to examine into the diet of all suspected persons; their times of eating; upon which side they lay in bed; with which hand they wipe their posteriors; take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crude-ness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool, which he found by frequent experiment; for, in such conjunctures, when he used, merely as a trial, to consider which was the best way of murdering the king, his ordure would have a tincture of green; but quite different, when he thought only of raising an insurrection, or burning the metropolis.
-- Neither is there any rem-edy; because it is capital for those, who receive an audience to spit or wipe their mouths in his majesty's presence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As if an astronomical observatory should be made without any windows, and the astronomer within should arrange the starry universe solely by pen, ink, and paper, so Mr. Gradgrind, in his Observatory (and there are many like it), had no need to cast an eye upon the teeming myriads of human beings around him, but could settle all their destinies on a slate, and wipe out all their tears with one dirty little bit of sponge.
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