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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gania observed it there, and with a frown of annoyance snatched it up and threw it across to his writing-table, which stood at the other end of the room.
-- Oh, you needn't frown at me, Varvara!You can go at once for all I care; I am sick enough of your company.
-- And there comes that frown once more!You've taken to looking too gloomy sometimes, Aglaya, much more than you used to.
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：
-- The frown which had gathered around the handsome, open, and manly brow of Heyward, gradually relaxed, and his lips curled into a slight smile, as he regarded the stranger.
-- Alice sat upon his knee, parting the gray hairs on the forehead of the old man with her delicate fin-gers; and whenever he affected to frown on her trifling, appeasing his assumed anger by pressing her ruby lips fondly on his wrinkled brow.
-- repeated the sage, on whose brow a dark frown settled, imparting a portion of that severity which had ren-dered his eye so terrible in middle age.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Bah!You would swear away my life if you could,' returned the other, after bestowing a stare and a frown on me; 'we all know that!'
-- said Quilp, with a smile of which a frown was part.
-- Before he had got through the first two or three lines he began to open his eyes very wide and to frown most horribly, the next two or three caused him to scratch his head in an uncommonly vicious manner, and when he came to the conclusion he gave a long dismal whistle indicative of surprise and dismay.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general seemed displeased, began to frown and said nothing.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing followed for a time, but the remark had set us all on the alert, straining ears and eyes the musketeers with their pieces balanced in their hands, the captain out in the middle of the block house with his mouth very tight and a frown on his face.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Birkin had a slight, tense frown between the brows.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So I chattered on; and Heathcliff gradually lost his frown and began to look quite pleasant, when all at once our conversation was interrupted by a rumbling sound moving up the road and entering the court.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He's a stubborn fellow and hard to manage,' said Mr. Laurence, rubbing up his hair till it looked as if he had been out in a gale, and smoothing the frown from his brow with an air of relief.
-- Meg spoke seriously and expected to see Laurie frown or laugh, but he did neither, for after a quick look at her, he said, in his impetuous way, 'I like that!For I've seen enough harm done to wish other women would think as you do.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bestowing something half-way between a smile and a frown upon his two companions, and again beckoning them to follow him, the man hastened across the apartment, which was of considerable extent, but low in the roof.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Tell her to frown a little more when Sparks dances."
-- It was the kind of frown they would have loved to force away with kisses.
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