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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his withdrawing, abstracted, pondering way, it took him some time to shape this question.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- with lips so parched they could hardly shape the word.
-- There probably were a good many happy little girls in and about the city that day, but it is my private opin-ion that Amy was the happiest of all, when she sat in her mother's lap and told her trials, receiving consolation and compensation in the shape of approving smiles and fond caresses.
-- No one did for several months, but the word 'fete' always produced a general smile, and Laurie's birthday gift to Amy was a tiny coral lobster in the shape of a charm for her watch guard.
-- So I have got his things in order, and knit heels into two pairs of the socks, for they were boggled out of shape with his queer darns.
-- All in a minute various hints and trifles assumed shape and significance in Amy's mind, and told her what her sis-ter never had confided to her.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because, while the whales of this order, though smaller than those of the former order, nevertheless retain a proportionate likeness to them in figure, yet the bookbinder's Quarto volume in its dimensioned form does not preserve the shape of the Folio volume, but the Octavo volume does.
-- To be sure, in cold weather you may carry your house aloft with you, in the shape of a watch-coat; but properly speaking the thickest watch-coat is no more of a house than the unclad body; for as the soul is glued inside of its fleshy tabernacle, and cannot freely move about in it, nor even move out of it, without running great risk of perishing (like an ignorant pilgrim crossing the snowy Alps in winter); so a watch-coat is not so much of a house as it is a mere envelope, or additional skin encasing you.
-- And, not to speak of the highly presumable difference of contour between a young sucking whale and a full-grown Platonian Leviathan; yet, even in the case of one of those young sucking whales hoisted to a ship's deck, such is then the outlandish, eel-like, limbered, varying shape of him, that his precise expression the devil himself could not catch.
-- Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks.
-- As in general shape the noble Sperm Whale's head may be compared to a Roman war-chariot (especially in front, where it is so broadly rounded); so, at a broad view, the Right Whale's head bears a rather inelegant resemblance to a gigantic galliot-toed shoe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This cell was in shape and size something like an area cellar, only not so light.
-- He remembered nothing of its details; but the shape and aspect of the building seemed familiar to him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor was it under many, many minutes that she could comprehend what she heard; though not in general backward to credit what was for the advantage of her family, or that came in the shape of a lover to any of them.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All possibility of deliverance from this condition seemed to be entirely taken from me; and I firmly believe that no hu-man shape had ever set foot upon that place.
-- want of hands to move it, when it was made, into the water - a difficulty much harder for me to surmount than all the consequences of want of tools could be to them; for what was it to me, if when I had chosen a vast tree in the woods, and with much trouble cut it down, if I had been able with my tools to hew and dub the outside into the proper shape of a boat, and burn or cut out the inside to make it hollow, so as to make a boat of it - if, after all this, I must leave it just there where I found it, and not be able to launch it into the water?
-- It was not without infinite labour that I felled this tree; I was twenty days hacking and hewing at it at the bottom; I was fourteen more getting the branches and limbs and the vast spreading head cut off, which I hacked and hewed through with axe and hatchet, and inexpressible labour; after this, it cost me a month to shape it and dub it to a proportion, and to something like the bottom of a boat, that it might swim upright as it ought to do.
-- My beard I had once suffered to grow till it was about a quarter of a yard long; but as I had both scissors and razors sufficient, I had cut it pretty short, except what grew on my upper lip, which I had trimmed into a large pair of Mahometan whiskers, such as I had seen worn by some Turks at Sallee, for the Moors did not wear such, though the Turks did; of these moustachios, or whiskers, I will not say they were long enough to hang my hat upon them, but they were of a length and shape monstrous enough, and such as in England would have passed for frightful.
-- Sometimes I fancied it must be the devil, and reason joined in with me in this supposition, for how should any other thing in hu-man shape come into the place?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was in no shape or mood to do the scrub work that exists about the foundation of every hotel.
-- His constitution was in no shape to endure.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You can't tell the shape of the river, and you can't see no distance.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He grasped the hatchet quickly to peel off the bark and shape the wood.
-- As soon as he reached home, Geppetto took his tools and began to cut and shape the wood into a Marionette.
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