purple是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 紫的n. 紫色，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：
-- The violet and purple tints of his head contrasted vividly with the glossy green of his neck, and the dazzling whiteness of his throat, and the bright red of his long legs.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general grew purple with anger.
-- The old man grew purple in the face, he raised his hands.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She found her in her own room, working at a great web of purple linen, on which she was embroidering the battles between Trojans and Achaeans, that Mars had made them fight for her sake.
-- 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.
-- To this end he went round the ships and tents carrying a great purple cloak, and took his stand by the huge black hull of Ulysses' ship, which was middlemost of all; it was from this place that his voice would carry farthest, on the one hand towards the tents of Ajax son of Telamon, and on the other towards those of Achilles for these two heroes, well assured of their own strength, had valorously drawn up their ships at the two ends of the line.
-- With this he led them forward, and bade them sit on seats covered with purple rugs; then he said to Patroclus who was close by him, 'Son of Menoetius, set a larger bowl upon the table, mix less water with the wine, and give every man his cup, for these are very dear friends, who are now under my roof.'
-- He buckled on his purple coat, of two thicknesses, large, and of a rough shaggy texture, grasped his redoubtable bronze-shod spear, and wended his way along the line of the Achaean ships.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- shouted Jaffers, choking and reeling through them all, and wrestling with purple face and swelling veins against his unseen enemy.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A slanting ray lingered on the woody crests of the precipices that overhung some parts of the river, giv-ing greater depth to the dark gray and purple of their rocky sides.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the point of the lake which projected to the north, they had discovered an osier- bed in which grew a large number of purple osiers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thank Heaven that the temples of such spirits are not made with hands, and that they may be even more worthily hung with poor patch-work than with purple and fine linen!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His face suddenly turned a purple color.
-- "On the contrary, I am very thankful to you for the opportunity----" When she understood that he consented her face turned a purple color and she became silent.
-- Coming near Nekhludoff and seeing his cold, angry face, her own turned a purple color, and, with downcast eyes, she began to pick a corner of her waist.
-- But as soon as Nekhludoff pronounced Simonson's name, her face turned a purple color.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was on what seemed to be a little lawn in a garden, surrounded by rhododendron bushes, and I noticed that their mauve and purple blossoms were dropping in a shower under the beating of the hailstones.
-- He was a slight creature perhaps four feet high clad in a purple tunic, girdled at the waist with a leather belt.
-- At once a quaintly pretty little figure in chequered purple and white followed my gesture, and then astonished me by imitating the sound of thunder.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The revel was at its height when a priest appeared, and withdrawing the young pair to an alcove, hung with purple velvet, he motioned them to kneel.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am no coward, but what to make of this head-peddling purple rascal altogether passed my comprehension.
-- 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.
-- But being in a great hurry to resume scolding the man in the purple Shirt, who was waiting for it in the entry, and seeming to hear nothing but the word "clam," Mrs. Hussey hurried towards an open door leading to the kitchen, and bawling out "clam for two," disappeared.
-- At last, gush after gush of clotted red gore, as if it had been the purple lees of red wine, shot into the frighted air; and falling back again, ran dripping down his motionless flanks into the sea.
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