carpet是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 地毯，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：
-- The ground had once more become a dead level, the last mountains of the Pampas were passed, and a long carpet of verdure unrolled itself over the monotonous prairie beneath the horses' tread.
-- A grassy carpet at the foot of the trees, and a canopy of verdure above, long perspectives of bold colors, little shade, little freshness at all, a peculiar light, as if the rays came through a thin veil, dappled lights and shades sharply reflected on the ground, made up a whole, and constituted a peculiar spectacle rich in novel effects.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hero was sleeping upon the skin of an ox, with a piece of fine carpet under his head; Nestor went up to him and stirred him with his heel to rouse him, upbraiding him and urging him to bestir himself.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bulk of three cigars had passed into the invisible or diffused as a white ash over the carpet before he spoke again.
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：
-- 'That's a trail that nothing but a nose can follow,' said the satisfied scout, looking back along their difficult way; 'grass is a treacherous carpet for a flying party to tread on, but wood and stone take no print from a moccasin.
-- Some bore their choicest articles, others their young, and some their aged and infirm, into the forest, which spread itself like a verdant carpet of bright green against the side of the mountain.
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：
-- He was in shirt-sleeves and carpet slippers.
-- There was no carpet on the floor.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Important changes had occurred; great blocks of stone lay on the beach, which was also covered with a thick carpet of sea-weed, algae, and wrack.
-- It was not such a shore as is usually fo rmed by nature, either by extending a vast carpet of sand, or by grouping masses of rock, but a beautiful border consisting of the most splendid trees.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A rickety table, with spare bundles of papers, yellow and ragged from long carriage in the pocket, ostentatiously displayed upon its top; a couple of stools set face to face on opposite sides of this crazy piece of furniture; a treacherous old chair by the fire-place, whose withered arms had hugged full many a client and helped to squeeze him dry; a second-hand wig box, used as a depository for blank writs and declarations and other small forms of law, once the sole contents of the head which belonged to the wig which belonged to the box, as they were now of the box itself; two or three common books of practice; a jar of ink, a pounce box, a stunted hearth-broom, a carpet trodden to shreds but still clinging with the tightness of desperation to its tacks these, with the yellow wainscot of the walls, the smoke-discoloured ceiling, the dust and cobwebs, were among the most prominent decorations of the office of Mr Sampson Brass.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Look out, or you will fall," he said, smiling, as the little girl, walking with her head turned toward Nekhludoff, tripped on the carpet and ran to her father.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carpet bowls!My lady's maid couldn't miss.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This sward was of close texture, and soft to the feet, and rivalled the softest carpet woven by the hand of man.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Hurry and get done!Don't stop to quirk your little finger and simper over your plate, Amy,' cried Jo, choking on her tea and dropping her bread, butter side down, on the carpet in her haste to get at the treat.
-- Now a bag of remarkable clothespins, next, a wonderful nutmeg grater which fell to pieces at the first trial, a knife cleaner that spoiled all the knives, or a sweeper that picked the nap neatly off the carpet and left the dirt, labor-saving soap that took the skin off one's hands, infallible cements which stuck firmly to nothing but the fingers of the deluded buyer, and every kind of tinware, from a toy savings bank for odd pennies, to a wonderful boiler which would wash articles in its own steam with every prospect of exploding in the process.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a carpet to the organ we have a rug of the softest Turkey the tongue, which is glued, as it were, to the floor of the mouth.
-- The wood was green as mosses of the Icy Glen; the trees stood high and haughty, feeling their living sap; the industrious earth beneath was as a weaver's loom, with a gorgeous carpet on it, whereof the ground-vine tendrils formed the warp and woof, and the living flowers the figures.
-- Speak, weaver! stay thy hand! but one single word with thee!Nay the shuttle flies the figures float from forth the loom; the freshet-rushing carpet for ever slides away.
-- As they neared him, the ocean grew still more smooth; seemed drawing a carpet over its waves; seemed a noon-meadow, so serenely it spread.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had a pair of yellow carpet slippers which he enjoyed wearing, and these he would immediately substitute for his solid pair of shoes.
-- There was a good Brussels carpet on the floor, rich in dull red and lemon shades, and representing large jardinieres filled with gorgeous, impossible flowers.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A bed; and bedclothes; and a look'n'-glass; and a piece of carpet on the floor and your own father got to sleep with the hogs in the tanyard.
-- As soon as I was in the old gentleman he locked the door and barred it and bolted it, and told the young men to come in with their guns, and they all went in a big parlor that had a new rag carpet on the floor, and got together in a cor-ner that was out of the range of the front windows there warn't none on the side.
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