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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length he ventured to take me behind, by the middle, be-tween his fore-finger and thumb, and brought me within three yards of his eyes, that he might behold my shape more perfectly.
-- His majesty, a prince of much gravity and austere countenance, not well observing my shape at 123first view, asked the queen after a cold manner 'how long it was since she grew fond of a splacnuck?'
-- The king, although he be as learned a person as any in his dominions, had been educated in the study of philoso-phy, and particularly mathematics; yet when he observed my shape exactly, and saw me walk erect, before I began to speak, conceived I might be a piece of clock-work (which is in that country arrived to a very great perfection) contrived by some ingenious artist.
-- These gentlemen, after they had a while exam-ined my shape with much nicety, were of different opinions concerning me.
-- The second course was two ducks trussed up in the form of fiddles; sausages and pud-dings resembling flutes and hautboys, and a breast of veal in the shape of a harp.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stood on a raised stage, under his own loom; and, looking up at the shape the loom took, and hearing the burial service distinctly read, he knew that he was there to suffer death.
-- Wandering to and fro, unceasingly, without hope, and in search of he knew not what (he only knew that he was doomed to seek it), he was the subject of a nameless, horrible dread, a mortal fear of one particular shape which everything took.
-- The table stood in the same place, close by the bedside, and on it, in its real proportions and appearance, was the shape so often repeated.
-- When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted.
-- Remembrances of how she had journeyed to the little that she knew, by the enchanted roads of what she and millions of innocent creatures had hoped and imagined; of how, first coming upon Reason through the tender light of Fancy, she had seen it a beneficent god, deferring to gods as great as itself; not a grim Idol, cruel and cold, with its victims bound hand to foot, and its big dumb shape set up with a sightless stare, never to be moved by anything but so many calculated tons of leverage what had she to do with these?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To our supreme astonishment their adieu took the shape of a formidable bill, in which they even counted the use of the pastoral house, really and truly the most abominable and dirty place I ever was in.
-- If this singular torrent had not been checked in its descent by the peculiar shape of the flanks of the mountain, it would have swept into the sea, and would have formed new islands.
-- As I advanced, I tried to recollect the shape of the tunnel--to recall to my memory certain projections of rocks--to persuade myself that I had followed certain winding routes before.
-- After we had gone about five hundred yards, we suddenly turned a steep promontory, and found ourselves close to a lofty forest!It consisted of straight trunks with tufted tops, in shape like parasols.
-- I could see nothing in the shape of boat or vessel.
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：
-- Emotions that are ordered and given shape are more important than disorderly emotions.
-- Ah luv thee, thy legs, an' th' shape on thee, an' th' womanness on thee.
-- 'It's not for a man the shape you're in, Sir Clifford, to twit me for havin' a cod atween my legs.'
-- You have heard that my wife Bertha came back to my unloving arms, and took up her abode in the cottage: where, to speak disrespectfully, she smelled a rat, in the shape of a little bottle of Coty.
-- This last time, I'd have shot her like I shoot a stoat, if I'd but been al-lowed: a raving, doomed thing in the shape of a woman!If only I could have shot her, and ended the whole misery!It ought to be allowed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Sometimes,' he went on in a low, soft voice, agitated, and clearing his throat every now and then; 'sometimes hem it takes one shape and sometimes another; but it is generally ha Money.
-- When his knock at the bright brass knocker of obsolete shape brought a woman-servant to the door, those faded scents in truth saluted him like wintry breath that had a faint remembrance in it of the bygone spring.
-- Not to obtrude doctrine upon you,' she looked at the rigid pile of hard pale books before her, '(for you go your own way, and the consequences are on your own head), I will say this much: that I shape my course by pilots, strictly by proved and tried pilots, under whom I cannot be shipwrecked can not be and that if I were unmindful of the admonition conveyed in those three letters, I should not be half as chastened as I am.'
-- This old man wears a hat, a thumbed and napless and yet an obdurate hat, which has never adapted itself to the shape of his poor head.
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