frown是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. /n. 皱眉, 不赞成，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His face had become frozen, as it were, in a very curi-ous look at Darnay: an intent look, deepening into a frown of dislike and distrust, not even unmixed with fear.
-- A slight frown and a laconic 'Yes,' were the answer.
-- 'Peace, little Vengeance,' said Madame Defarge, laying her hand with a slight frown on her lieutenant's lips, 'hear me speak.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She glanced round for an instant, looked inquiringly at him, and with a slight frown turned away again.
-- "Come, really though," said the elder brother, with a frown on his handsome, clever face, "there's a limit to everything.
-- Dolly was beginning a question as to what name the little girl would have; but noticing a sudden frown on Anna's face, she changed the drift of her question.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They saw him frown at it, tap it on his knuckles, begin to read it, stuff it back into his pocket, and go on with a more resolute step.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then shemade a frown and a gesture to my mother, like one who wasaccustomed to be obeyed, to come and open the door.
-- mused Miss Betsey, with her frown still bent upon the fire.
-- Mr. Creakleturned to his assistant, with a severe frown and labouredpoliteness'Now you hear what this gentleman says, Mr. Mell.
-- says Mr. Chillip, MissMurdstone merely answers with a frown and a formal bend; Mr.Chillip, discomfited, goes into a corner, keeping me with him, andopens his mouth no more.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then changing from a frown to a smile 'No, do not tell me I do not want to know what you mean. Where is my father? When are we to begin dancing?'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Melanie rustled in from her room,a worried frown puckering her forehead, a brush in her hands, her usually tidy black hair, freed of its net, fluffing abouther face in a mass of tiny curls and waves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am serious," said Estella, not so much with a frown (for her brow was smooth) as with a darkening of her face; "if we are to be thrown much together, you had better believe it at once.
-- He bent down so low to frown at his boots, that he was able to rub the calves of his legs in the pause he made.
-- "May I make so bold," he said then, with a smile that was like a frown, and with a frown that was like a smile, "as ask you how you have done well, since you and me was out on them lone shivering marshes?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She then suffered them to seek the fire, as before; but with the frown fixed above them, as if the sculptor of old Egypt had indented it in the hard granite face, to frown for ages.
-- As Arthur looked at it again, he saw, by the reflection of the mirror, Tattycoram stop in passing outside the door, listen to what was going on, and pass away with an angry and contemptuous frown upon her face, that changed its beauty into ugliness.
-- She looked in amazement at her sister and would have asked a question, but that Fanny with a warning frown pointed to a curtained doorway of communication with another room.
-- I am entirely ignorant of it, and cannot be supposed likely to be able to form the remotest guess at its nature;' her habitual frown became stronger, as she very slowly and weightily emphasised those words; 'but, when the gentleman proceeds to explain his object, as I shall beg him to have the goodness to do to myself and Flintwinch, when Flintwinch returns, it will prove, no doubt, to be one more or less in the usual way of our business, which it will be both our business and our pleasure to advance.
-- Mrs Clennam's attentive frown expanded by degrees into a severe look of triumph, and she retorted with emphasis, 'Take care how you judge others, then.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It will please her very much, I know,' said Meg, with a frown for Jo and a smile for Beth.
-- 'The coolness of you two rascals is amazing,' began Mr. Pickwick, trying to get up an awful frown and only succeed-ing in producing an amiable smile.
-- And Laurie folded his hands together with such and im-ploring gesture, as he spoke in his irresistibly persuasive tone, that it was impossible to frown upon him in spite of his scandalous behavior.
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