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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had no side-saddle, and it was very apparent that a firm seat upon the smooth leather beneath her was unattainable sideways.
-- Mr. Oak appeared in the entry with a steaming face, hay-bands wound about his ankles to keep out the snow, a leather strap round his waist outside the smock-frock, and looking altogether an epitome of the world's health and vigour.
-- She had dressed the hive with herbs and honey, fetched a ladder, brush, and crook, made herself impregnable with armour of leather gloves, straw hat, and large gauze veil once green but now faded to snuff colour and ascended a dozen rungs of the ladder.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His thickset torso was supported by short sturdy legs,always incased in the finest leather boots procurable and always planted wide apart like a swaggering small boy's.
-- She had on her bonnet, shawl and mittens, and behind her was Mammy, her face like a thundercloud, holding inher hand the black leather bag in which Ellen O'Hara always carried the bandages and medicines she used in doctoringthe slaves.
-- Mammy followedat a few paces, the leather bag in her hand, her underlip pushed out and her brow lowering.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Joe had got his coat and waistcoat and cravat off, and his leather apron on, and passed into the forge.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 222 Grimms' Fairy Tales THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER here was once a shoemaker, who worked very hard and Twas very honest: but still he could not earn enough to live upon; and at last all he had in the world was gone, save just leather enough to make one pair of shoes.
-- Then he cut his leather out, all ready to make up the next day, meaning to rise early in the morning to his work.
-- The same day a customer came in, and the shoes suited him so well that he willingly paid a price higher than usual for them; and the poor shoemaker, with the money, bought leather enough to make two pairs more.
-- Soon in came buyers, who paid him handsome-ly for his goods, so that he bought leather enough for four pair more.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their costume consists of a coarse capote of black wool, known in Scandinavian countries as the "vadmel," a broad-brimmed hat, trousers of red serge, and a piece of leather tied with strings for a shoe--a coarse kind of moccasin.
-- The battery and wire are carried in a leather bag, which the traveler fastens by a strap to his shoulders.
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：
-- He hung up his gun, slipped out of his wet leather jacket, and reached for the blankets.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a comfortable room, handsomely furnished in the higher official manner; an presenting stately suggestions of the absent Barnacle, in the thick carpet, the leather-covered desk to sit at, the leather-covered desk to stand at, the formidable easy-chair and hearth-rug, the interposed screen, the torn-up papers, the dispatch-boxes with little labels sticking out of them, like medicine bottles or dead game, the pervading smell of leather and mahogany, and a general bamboozling air of How not to do it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No gentleman were admitted, so Jo played male parts to her heart's content and took immense satisfaction in a pair of russet leather boots given her by a friend, who knew a lady who knew an actor.
-- Mr. Bhaer smiled, as he glanced from the pickle factory on one side to the wholesale hide and leather concern on the other, but her only said politely, 'You haf no umbrella.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In front is a leather rack, in which to keep your speaking trumpet, pipe, telescope, and other nautical conveniences.
-- For, before we proceed further, it must be said that the monkey-rope was fast at both ends; fast to Queequeg's broad canvas belt, and fast to my narrow leather one.
-- Slabs of ivory, leather straps, pads, screws, and various tools of all sorts lying about the bench.
-- The head part turned over with a leather hinge, and there lay Queequeg in his coffin with little but his composed countenance in view.
-- Ahab's harpoon, the one forged at Perth's fire, remained firmly lashed in its conspicuous crotch, so that it projected beyond his whale-boat's bow; but the sea that had stove its bottom had caused the loose leather sheath to drop off; and from the keen steel barb there now came a levelled flame of pale, forked fire.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes,' says he, 'I'll bring some;' and accordingly he brought a great leather pouch, which held a pound and a half of powder, or rather more; and another with shot, that had five or six pounds, with some bullets, and put all into the boat.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser Chapter I THE MAGNET ATTRACTING--A WAIF AMID FORCES When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money.
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