roof是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 屋顶， 顶，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Never shall I forget the lonelysensation of first lying down, without a roof above my head!
-- I seemed to have left the Doctor's roof with a dark cloud loweringon it.
-- 'Why, that you two gent'lmen- gent'lmen growed- should come tothis here roof to-night, of all nights in my life,' said Mr. Peggotty,'is such a thing as never happened afore, I do rightly believe!
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A dim mass under the slope reminded him that a shed occupied a place here, the site being a cutting into the slope of the hill, so that at its back part the roof was almost level with the ground.
-- Through crevices in the roof and side spread streaks and dots of light, a combination of which made the radiance that had attracted him.
-- Oak stepped up behind, where, leaning down upon the roof and putting his eye close to a hole, he could see into the interior clearly.
-- The flames, now driven upwards, began to attack the angles of the huge roof covering the wheat-stack.
-- From the walls an overhanging thatched roof sloped up to a point in the centre, upon which rose a small wooden lantern, fitted with louvre-boards on all the four sides, and from these openings a mist was dimly perceived to be escaping into the night air.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her house (known in the neighborhood as the _Maison Vauquer_) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I began also to observe, with greater accuracy, the forms that 119surrounded me and to perceive the boundaries of the ra-diant roof of light which canopied me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old oaks, which had seen Indians pass under their limbs, hugged the house closely with theirgreat trunks and towered their branches over the roof in dense shade.
-- From the avenue of cedars to the row of whitecabins in the slave quarters, there was an air of solidness, of stability and permanence about Tara, and whenever Geraldgalloped around the bend in the road and saw his own roof rising through green branches, his heart swelled with prideas though each sight of it were the first sight.
-- When she had finished her prayers for those beneath the roof of Tara, her father, mother, sisters, three dead babiesand "all the poor souls in Purgatory," she clasped her white beads between long fingers and began the Rosary, like therushing of a soft wind, the responses from black throats and white throats rolled back: "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death."
-- Scarlett digested this in silence, for she had never before been under the same roof with anyone who was notreceived.
-- She thought Aunt Pitty the silliest of oldladies and the very idea of living under the same roof with Ashley's wife was abhorrent.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Pumblechook made out, after carefully surveying the premises, that he had first got upon the roof of the forge, and had then got upon the roof of the house, and had then let himself down the kitchen chimney by a rope made of his bedding cut into strips; and as Mr. Pumblechook was very positive and drove his own chaise-cart--over everybody--it was agreed that it must be so.
-- The sun had been shining brightly all day on the roof of my attic, and the room was warm.
-- You little thought you was to be refreshment beneath this humble roof for one as--Call it a weakness, if you will," said Mr. Pumblechook, getting up again, "but may I?
-- Thus far my sense of sight; while dry rot and wet rot and all the silent rots that rot in neglected roof and cellar,--rot of rat and mouse and bug and coaching-stables near at hand besides--addressed themselves faintly to my sense of smell, and moaned, "Try Barnard's Mixture."
-- In truth, he said this with so much delicacy, that I felt the subject done with, even though I should be under his father's roof for years and years to come.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the heat grew greater as soon as noon came on, till at last, as he found himself on a 12 Grimms' Fairy Taleswide heath that would take him more than an hour to cross, he began to be so hot and parched that his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth.
-- A large hedge of thorns soon grew round the palace, and 35every year it became higher and thicker; till at last the old palace was surrounded and hidden, so that not even the roof or the chimneys could be seen.
-- Then he came at last to the palace, and there in the court lay the dogs asleep; and the horses were standing in the stables; and on the roof sat the pigeons fast asleep, with their heads under their wings.
-- And when its song was over, it spread its wings and flew away before them, and they followed it until they reached a little house, on the roof of which it alighted; and when they approached the little house they saw that it was built of bread and covered with cakes, but that the windows were of clear sugar.
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