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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wore a traveling cap, and strong, low, yellow boots with leather gaiters.
-- Paganel and Robert, both alike children, though of different growth, were wild with delight as they inserted their heads in the national PONCHO, an immense plaid with a hole in center, and their legs in high leather boots.
-- He had broad shoulders, and long hair bound together with leather thongs.
-- In exchange for seven ready saddled horses of the Argentine breed, 100 pounds of CHARQUI, or dried meat, several measures of rice, and leather bottles for water, the Indians agreed to take twenty ounces of gold as they could not get wine or rum, which they would have preferred, though they were perfectly acquainted with the value of gold.
-- A sort of leather tent, called a ROUKAH, which had been left by the natives, afforded the party a temporary resting-place, and the weary horses stretched themselves along the muddy banks, and tried to browse on the marine plants and dry reeds they found there—nauseous to the taste as they must have been.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Meyers, Toronto,' was printed on the leather inside.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This soldier, Kolpak-off, stole some leather from one of his comrades, intending to sell it, and spent the money on drink.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they reached the strongly built quarters of the son of Tyde-us, they tied the horses with thongs of leather to the manger, where the steeds of Diomed stood eating their sweet corn, but Ulysses hung the blood-stained spoils of Dolon at the stern of his ship, that they might prepare a sacred offering to Minerva.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dogs were muzzled by leather straps.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the jackal Tabaqui, the Dish-licker and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about mak-ing mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.
-- He remembered pushing, with a big leather pad on his forehead, at a gun stuck in deep mud, and that was before the Afghan War of 1842, and he had not then come to his full strength.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the most conspicuous of the chiefs who fought in the bat-tle of Miami assured the writer, that the red men could not fight the warriors with 'long knives and leather stockings"; meaning the dragoons with their sabers and boots.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was too cold to sit outside, and we took our places on leather benches within.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Men who had lounged about all night in smock-frocks and leather leggings, came out in silken vests and hats and plumes, as jugglers or mountebanks; or in gorgeous liveries as soft-spoken servants at gambling booths; or in sturdy yeoman dress as decoys at unlawful games.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Behind the arm-chair came an elegantly dressed maid-servant with curly hair, carrying a round leather box and a sunshade.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The latter jumped to the task of punching, with sharp, snapping clicks, cutting circular bits of leather out of the side of the upper, leaving the holes which were to hold the laces.
-- The pieces of leather came from the girl at the machine to her right, and were passed on to the girl at her left.
-- A youth with tan-coloured hair, that needed clipping very badly, came shuffling along between the machines, bearing a basket of leather findings under his left arm, and pressed against his stomach.
-- Drouet wore patent leather but Carrie could not help feeling that there was a distinction in favour of the soft leather, where all else was so rich.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher-knife with- out any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old bedquilt off the bed, and a reticule with needles and pins and beeswax and buttons and thread and all such truck in it, and a hatchet and some nails, and a fishline as thick as my little finger with some mon- strous hooks on it, and a roll of buckskin, and a leather dog-collar, and a horseshoe, and some vials of medicine that didn't have no label on them; and just as we was leaving I found a tolerable good curry-comb, and Jim he found a ratty old fiddle-bow, and a wooden leg.
-- The fences was made of different kinds of boards, nailed on at dif- ferent times; and they leaned every which way, and had gates that didn't generly have but one hinge a leather one.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the first part of the performance was over, the Owner and Manager of the circus, in a black coat, white knee breeches, and patent leather boots, presented himself to the public and in a loud, pompous voice made the following announcement: "Most honored friends, Gentlemen and Ladies!
-- A new bridle of shining leather with buckles of polished brass was on his back; two white camellias were tied to his ears; ribbons and tassels of red silk adorned his mane, which was divided into many curls.
-- As soon as he was dressed, he put his hands in his pockets and pulled out a little leather purse on which were written the following words: The Fairy with Azure Hair returns fifty pennies to her dear Pinocchio with many thanks for his kind heart.
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