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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was in fact the exact shape of the island, which it is of consequence to know, and a tolerably correct map of it was immediately drawn by the reporter.
-- From the northeast to the southwest the coast was rounded, like the flattened cranium of an animal, rising again, forming a sort of protuberance which did not give any particular shape to this part of the island, of which the center was occupied by the volcano.
-- The exploration of the island was finished, its shape determined, its features made out, its extent calculated, the water and mountain systems ascertained.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here the old gentleman got out and helped out the old lady, and then took from under the seat a nosegay resembling in shape and dimensions a full-sized warming-pan with the handle cut short off.
-- When she had exhibited these leviathans of public announcement to the astonished child, she brought forth specimens of the lesser fry in the shape of hand-bills, some of which were couched in the form of parodies on popular melodies, as 'Believe me if all Jarley's wax-work so rare' 'I saw thy show in youthful prime' 'Over the water to Jarley;' while, to consult all tastes, others were composed with a view to the lighter and more facetious spirits, as a parody on the favourite air of 'If I had a donkey,' beginning,If I know'd a donkey wot wouldn't goTo see Mrs JARLEY'S wax-work show,Do you think I'd acknowledge him?
-- Thus instructed, Nell had no difficulty in finding out Miss Monflathers's Boarding and Day Establishment, which was a large house, with a high wall, and a large garden-gate with a large brass plate, and a small grating through which Miss Monflathers's parlour-maid inspected all visitors before admitting them; for nothing in the shape of a man no, not even a milkman was suffered, without special license, to pass that gate.
-- Meanwhile, Mr Swiveller, on the top of the stool, drew himself into as flat a shape as possible against the wall, and looked, not unconcernedly, down upon the single gentleman, who appeared at the door growling and cursing in a very awful manner, and, with the boots in his hand, seemed to have an intention of hurling them down stairs on speculation.
-- CHAPTER 64Tossing to and fro upon his hot, uneasy bed; tormented by a fierce thirst which nothing could appease; unable to find, in any change of posture, a moment's peace or ease; and rambling, ever, through deserts of thought where there was no resting-place, no sight or sound suggestive of refreshment or repose, nothing but a dull eternal weariness, with no change but the restless shiftings of his miserable body, and the weary wandering of his mind, constant still to one ever-present anxiety to a sense of something left undone, of some fearful obstacle to be surmounted, of some carking care that would not be driven away, and which haunted the distempered brain, now in this form, now in that, always shadowy and dim, but recognisable for the same phantom in every shape it took: darkening every vision like an evil conscience, and making slumber horrible in these slow tortures of his dread disease, the unfortunate Richard lay wasting and consuming inch by inch, until, at last, when he seemed to fight and struggle to rise up, and to be held down by devils, he sank into a deep sleep, and dreamed no more.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the oblong dining-room, the inlaid floor of which had been polished by three of his men the day before, and containing a massive oaken sideboard and a similar extension table, the legs of which were carved in the shape of lion's paws, giving it a pompous appearance, breakfast stood ready for him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was of white marble, in shape something like a winged sphinx, but the wings, instead of being carried vertically at the sides, were spread so that it seemed to hover.
-- I dare say you will anticipate the shape of my theory; though, for myself, I very soon felt that it fell far short of the truth.
-- "The great triumph of Humanity I had dreamed of took a different shape in my mind.
-- Here and there I found traces of the little people in the shape of rare fossils broken to pieces or threaded in strings upon reeds.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, she has the same awkward shape as you,' the Rose said, 'but she's redder and her petals are shorter, I think.'
-- 'Of course it must,' Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: 'my name means the shape I am and a good handsome shape it is, too.
-- 'I'll whisper it,' said the Messenger, putting his hands to his mouth in the shape of a trumpet, and stooping so as to get close to the King's ear.
-- 'Well, we must fight for her, then,' said the Red Knight, as he took up his helmet (which hung from the saddle, and was something the shape of a horse's head), and put it on.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The facts relating to this apparition (entered in various log-books) agreed in most respects as to the shape of the object or creature in question, the untiring rapidity of its movements, its surprising power of locomotion, and the peculiar life with which it seemed endowed.
-- They followed the shape of the room, terminating at the lower part in huge divans, covered with brown leather, which were curved, to afford the greatest comfort.
-- I took the cigar which was offered me; its shape recalled the London ones, but it seemed to be made of leaves of gold.
-- It is very like a cigar in shape, a shape already adopted in London in several constructions of the same sort.
-- The shape of continents allows us to divide the waters into five great portions: the Arctic or Frozen Ocean, the Antarctic, or Frozen Ocean, the Indian, the Atlantic, and the Pacific Oceans.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was superstitious about dreams then, and am still; and Catherine had an unusual gloom in her aspect, that made me dread something from which I might shape a prophecy, and foresee a fearful catastrophe.
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