leather是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 皮革， 皮革制品，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：
-- His few common tools and various scraps of leather were at his feet and on his bench.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Such a pair of shoes must be very warm and comfortable,' said he; 'the leather is so soft and supple.'
-- 'The gilding decays, But hog's leather stays!'
-- and the swords and armor on the knights' portraits rattled, and the silk gowns rustled; the hog's leather spoke, and the old chairs had the gout in their legs and rheumatism in their backs: Ugh!it was exactly like the first time, for over there one day and hour was just like another.
-- shouted something close by; but no one, except the pewter soldier, saw that it was a piece of the hog's-leather hangings; it had lost all its gilding, it looked like a piece of wet clay, but it had an opinion, and it gave it: 'The gilding decays, 154 Andersen's Fairy Tales But hog's leather stays!'
-- It was dressed entirely in black, and of the very finest cloth; it had patent leather boots, and a hat that could be folded together, so that it was bare crown and brim; not to speak of what we already know it had seals, gold neck-chain, and diamond rings; yes, the shadow was well-dressed, and it was just that which made it quite a man.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That's so," responded the clerk, handing him the reins and buttoning the leather apron.
-- Before the mare had time to move, Vronsky stepped with an agile, vigorous movement into the steel-toothed stirrup, and lightly and firmly seated himself on the creaking leather of the saddle.
-- Having finished all his business, soaked through with the streams of water which kept running down the leather behind his neck and his gaiters, but in the keenest and most confident temper, Levin returned homewards in the evening.
-- She, wearing the dark lilac dress she had worn during the first days of their married life, and put on again today, a dress particularly remembered and loved by him, was sitting on the sofa, the same old-fashioned leather sofa which had always stood in the study in Levin's father's and grandfather's days.
-- The first to come out was Vassenka Veslovsky, in new high boots that reached half-way up his thick thighs, in a green blouse, with a new Russian leather cartridge-belt, and in his Scotch cap with ribbons, with a brand-new English gun without a sling.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It has been humbled since by the supercilious modesty of the vast Hotel Thornleigh; dirty now is its tessellated floor and all the wild gilt tarnished, and in its ponderous leather chairs are torn seams and stogie ashes and horse-dealers.
-- In the Seventies he had a brown small flat, smelling of tobacco and leather books.
-- But the garcons had no military rank whatever, nor any military duties except the polishing of brown riding-boots and leather puttees, which the several warriors wore as pleased their fancies or their legs.
-- Martin curled on the chill leather seat of the smoking compartment, profoundly studying a brass wash-bowl.
-- The dining-room was gorgeous and very hideous, in stamped leather and hysterias of gold, with collections of servants watching one's use of asparagus forks.
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：
-- She was dressed in red cotton, in a pointed, beaded headdress and thick leather shoes; she was cracking nuts and laughing.
-- On the string were two crosses, one of Cyprus wood and one of copper, and an image in sil-ver filigree, and with them a small greasy chamois leather purse with a steel rim and ring.
-- And so it was; there was a good-sized box under the bed, at least a yard in length, with an arched lid covered with red leather and studded with steel nails.
-- There were eight articles in all: two little boxes with ear-rings or something of the sort, he hardly looked to see; then four small leather cases.
-- And when he had sunk down on the American leather sofa, which was in even worse condition than his own, Ra-zumihin saw at once that his visitor was ill. 'Why, you are seriously ill, do you know that?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a stiff leather purse,with a snap, and had three bright shillings in it, which Peggottyhad evidently polished up with whitening, for my greater delight.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Knightley was hard at work upon the lower buttons of his thick leather gaiters, and either the exertion of getting them together, or some other cause, brought the colour into his face, as he answered, 'Oh!are you there? But you are miserably behindhand.
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.
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