ivory是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 象牙, 象牙制品 a. 象牙色的，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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Indeed, the narwhal is armed with a sort of ivory sword, a halberd, according to the expression of certain naturalists.
-- This worthy animal may allow itself to be caught in the seas of Europe (for my particular benefit), and I will not bring back less than half a yard of his ivory halberd to the Museum of Natural History."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was ivory in it, and some transparent crystalline substance.
-- There it is now, a little travel-worn, truly; and one of the ivory bars is cracked, and a brass rail bent; but the rest of it's sound enough.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As when some woman of Meonia or Caria strains purple dye on to a piece of ivory that is to be the cheek-piece of a horse, and is to be laid up in a treasure house many a knight is fain to bear it, but the king keeps it as an ornament of which both horse and driver may be proud even so, O Menelaus, were your shapely thighs and your legs down to your fair ancles stained with blood.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Folding the letter and smoothing it with a massive ivory knife, and putting it in an envelope with the money, he rang the bell with the gratification it always afforded him to use the well arranged appointments of his writing-table.
-- He could hardly speak for the throbbing ache in his strong teeth, that were like rows of ivory in his mouth.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were eight or ten Persons of Importance, male and female, looking insignificant but bearing names as familiar as Ivory Soap.
-- She knew too many men who were witty and well-bred, ivory smooth and competent to help her spend the four or five million dollars with which she was burdened.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the writing table she saw a familiar paper-press, with the bronze figure of a dog, neatly arranged portfolios, papers, volumes of the Criminal Code and an English book of Henry George, and a French one by Tard, between the leaves of which was an ivory paper knife.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He might be seen any day sailing like a gray shadow along the walks of the Jardin des Plantes, on his head a shabby cap, a cane with an old yellow ivory handle in the tips of his thin fingers; the outspread skirts of his threadbare overcoat failed to conceal his meagre figure; his breeches hung loosely on his shrunken limbs; the thin, blue-stockinged legs trembled like those of a drunken man; there was a notable breach of continuity between the dingy white waistcoat and crumpled shirt frills and the cravat twisted about a throat like a turkey gobbler's; altogether, his appearance set people wondering whether this outlandish ghost belonged to the audacious race of the sons of Japhet who flutter about on the Boulevard Italien.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt that she could claw Melanie's ivory skin tillthe blood ran and take pleasure in doing it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were none there, and she took from her pocket a yellow set of ivory tablets, mounted in tarnished gold, and wrote upon them with a pencil in a case of tarnished gold that hung from her neck.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was the admiration of all the negroes; who, having gathered, of all ages and sizes, from the farm and the neighborhood, stood forming a pyramid of shining black faces at every door and window; gazing with delight at the scene; rolling their white eye-balls, and showing grinning rows of ivory from ear to ear.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes he was handsome: sometimes as he looked sideways, down-wards, and the light fell on him, he had the silent, enduring beauty of a carved ivory Negro mask, with his rather full eyes, and the strong queerly-arched brows, the immobile, compressed mouth; that momentary but revealed immobil-ity, an immobility, a timelessness which the Buddha aims at, and which Negroes express sometimes without ever aim-ing at it; something old, old, and acquiescent in the race!
-- On the far side of his supreme prostitution to the bitch-goddess he seemed pure, pure as an African ivory mask that dreams impurity into purity, in its ivory curves and planes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the prudent Mrs Chivery perceived that in addition to these adornments her John carried a pair of white kid gloves, and a cane like a little finger-post, surmounted by an ivory hand marshalling him the way that he should go; and when she saw him, in this heavy marching order, turn the corner to the right; she remarked to Mr Chivery, who was at home at the time, that she thought she knew which way the wind blew.
-- Young men like John don't take to ivory hands a pinting, for nothing.
-- When Young John appeared at half-past one without the ivory hand and waistcoat of golden sprigs, the sun shorn of his beams by disastrous clouds, Mr Pancks presented him to the yellow-haired Ruggs as the young man he had so often mentioned who loved Miss Dorrit.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some were thickly set with glittering teeth resembling ivory saws; others were tufted with knots of human hair; and one was sickle-shaped, with a vast handle sweeping round like the segment made in the new-mown grass by a long-armed mower.
-- He goes down in the whirling heart of such a masterless commotion that he scarce heeds the moment when he drops seething into the yawning jaws awaiting him; and the whale shoots-to all his ivory teeth, like so many white bolts, upon his prison.
-- Setting out in their canoes, after a perilous passage they discovered the island, and there they found an empty ivory casket, the poor little Indian's skeleton.
-- The long rows of teeth on the bulwarks glistened in the moonlight; and like the white ivory tusks of some huge elephant, vast curving icicles depended from the bows.
-- It had previously come to me that this ivory leg had at sea been fashioned from the polished bone of the sperm whale's jaw.
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