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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This voracious animal, called by naturalists the Canis jubatus, is in shape like a large dog, and has the head of a fox.
-- Gradually fields covered with cereals came in sight, whole acres covered with bristling ears of corn, hay-ricks in the shape of large bee-hives, blooming orchards, a fine garden worthy of Horace, in which the useful and agreeable were blended; then came sheds; commons wisely distributed, and last of all, a plain comfortable dwelling-house, crowned by a joyous-sounding mill, and fanned and shaded by its long sails as they kept constantly moving round.
-- The quartermaster proved right, for as the cloud came nearer, quite a chorus of bleatings and neighings, and bel-lowings escaped from it, mingled with the loud tones of a human voice, in the shape of cries, and whistles, and vociferations.
-- Its graceless shape and comical motions have always attracted the notice of travelers, and during the great exploration of the Astrolabe and the Zelee, Dumont d'Urville was principally charged by the Academy of Sciences to bring back a specimen of these singular birds.
-- It is a sieve, whose interstices furnish a passage for the earth's vapors in the shape of boiling geysers and solfataras.
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：
-- I followed the footsteps down the Yew Alley, I saw the spot at the moor-gate where he seemed to have wait-ed, I remarked the change in the shape of the prints after that point, I noted that there were no other footsteps save those of Barrymore on the soft gravel, and finally I carefully examined the body, which had not been touched until my arrival.
-- All my unspoken instincts, my vague suspicions, sud-denly took shape and centred upon the naturalist.
-- The shape of some monstrous villainy, half seen, half guessed, loomed through the darkness which had girt me so long.
-- The moon shone upon him, and I could distinguish the dapper shape and jaunty walk of the naturalist.
-- I sprang to my feet, my inert hand grasping my pistol, my mind para-lyzed by the dreadful shape which had sprung out upon us from the shadows of the fog.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Here's your miserable hat He couldn't even choose a re-spectable shape for his hat!Come on!She did that because I took your part and said you ought to have come little vix-en! else she would never have sent you that silly note.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its light struck a ghostly white beam across my cabin, and made an ominous shape on the plank-ing by my bunk.
-- I suppose there is something in the human form that appeals to the artistic turn more pow-erfully than any animal shape can.
-- The man had a rifle; and when his body was found, one of the barrels was curved into the shape of an S and very nearly bitten through.
-- The human shape I can get now, al-most with ease, so that it is lithe and graceful, or thick and strong; but often there is trouble with the hands and the claws, painful things, that I dare not shape too freely.
-- A blind Fate, a vast pitiless Mechanism, seemed to cut and shape the fabric of existence and I, Moreau (by his passion for research), Montgomery (by his passion for drink), the Beast People with their in-stincts and mental restrictions, were torn and crushed, ruthlessly, inevitably, amid the infinite complexity of its in-cessant wheels.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wouldn't you like if your tails were so Curved in the shape of a Cupid's bow?
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：
-- But old age is a great injury to good looks, as these sweet young ladies have yet to l'arn!The place is sadly changed!These rocks are full of cracks, and in some places they are softer than at other-some, and the water has worked out deep hollows for itself, until it has fallen back, ay, some hundred feet, breaking here and wearing there, until the falls have neither shape nor consistency.'
-- The longer his nap lasts the better it will be for him, as I doubt whether he can find a proper cover for such a shape on these rocks; and singing won't do any good with the Iroquois.'
-- The enemy know the shape of your back, but they have never seen the color of your eyes.
-- He exposed their risk and fallacy with his usual skill; and it was only after he had removed every impediment, in the shape of opposing advice, that he ventured to propose his own projects.
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：
-- The beauty of the island is unveiled as diminishing distance shows you in distincter shape its lovely peaks, but it keeps its secret as you sail by, and, darkly inviolable, seems to fold itself together in a stony, inaccessible grimness.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "We will not give them time to hatch, unless it is in the shape of an omelet!"
-- Pencroft then twisted the piece of paper into the shape of a cone, as smokers do in a high wind, and poked it in among the moss.
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