shape是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 形状， 外形； 情况， 状态； 种类v. 成型， 塑造，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Harriet's features are very delicate, which makes a like-ness difficult; and yet there is a peculiarity in the shape of the eye and the lines about the mouth which one ought to catch.'
-- 'Exactly so The shape of the eye and the lines about the mouth I have not a doubt of your success.
-- 'When Miss Smiths and Mr. Eltons get acquainted they do indeed and really it is strange; it is out of the common course that what is so evidently, so palpably desirable what courts the pre-arrangement of other people, should so immediately shape itself into the proper form.
-- 'Very like Maple Grove indeed! She was quite struck by the likeness! That room was the very shape and size of the morning-room at Maple Grove; her sister's fa-vourite room.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Oak carried about him, by way of watch, what may be called a small silver clock; in other words, it was a watch as to shape and intention, and a small clock as to size.
-- Norcombe Hill not far from lonely Toller-Down was one of the spots which suggest to a passer-by that he is in the presence of a shape approaching the indestructible as nearly as any to be found on earth.
-- By the time he had walked three or four miles every shape in the landscape had assumed a uniform hue of blackness.
-- "That's about the shape o't, 'a b'lieve," said Jan Coggan.
-- The shape went slowly along, but without much exertion, for the snow, though sudden, was not as yet more than two inches deep.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had been twisted out of shape very neatly for a man that's not used to the trade."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We perceived a low carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs, pass on towards the north, at the distance of half a mile; a being which had the shape of a man, but ap-parently of gigantic stature, sat in the sledge and guided the dogs.
-- A flash of light-ning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to me; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect, more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy daemon, to whom I had given life.
-- Nothing in human shape could have destroyed the fair child.
-- I perceived, as the shape came nearer (sight tremendous and abhorred!)
-- Suddenly the broad disk of the moon arose and shone full upon his ghastly and distorted shape as he fled with more than mortal speed.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had a cloudof curly dark hair which was so sternly repressed beneath its net that no vagrant tendrils escaped, and this dark mass,with its long widow's peak, accentuated the heart shape of her face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair.
-- It opened to the ground, and looked into a most miserable corner of the neglected garden, upon a rank ruin of cabbage-stalks, and one box-tree that had been clipped round long ago, like a pudding, and had a new growth at the top of it, out of shape and of a different color, as if that part of the pudding had stuck to the saucepan and got burnt.
-- Then I bethought me of a crutch, the shape being much the same, and I borrowed one in the village, and displayed it to my sister with considerable confidence.
-- I might have known that he would never help me out; but it took me aback to have to shape the question afresh, as if it were quite new.
-- It will presently be seen that the question was not before me in a distinct shape until it was put before me by a wiser head than my own.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now this fairy could take any shape she pleased.
-- But God sent two angels from heaven in the shape of white doves, which flew to her twice a day, and carried her food until the seven years were over.
-- However, he still felt very hungry, and the salad tasted very nice; so he ate on till he came to another kind of salad, and scarcely had he tasted it when he felt another change come over him, and soon saw that he was lucky enough to have found his old shape again.
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