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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But just as exhaustion was about to make short work of any further ascent, and Glenarvan's heart began to sink as he thought of the snow lying far as the eye could reach, and of the intense cold, and saw the shadow of night fast overspreading the desolate peaks, and knew they had not a roof to shelter them, suddenly the Major stopped and said, in a calm voice, "A hut!"
-- The ponchos were streaming like the overflowing gutter-spouts on the roof of a house, and the unfortunate horsemen had to submit to a double bath, for their horses dashed up the water to their waists at every step.
-- Robert was scarcely in when he jumped on Wilson's shoulders, and squeezed his head through a crevice left between the roof and the walls, from which chaplets of amulets were hung.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A dull light shone through heavy mullioned windows, and from the high chimneys which rose from the steep, high-angled roof there sprang a single black column of smoke.
-- He is curiously employed at present, for, being an amateur astronomer, he has an excellent telescope, with which he lies upon the roof of his own house and sweeps the moor all day in the hope of catching a glimpse of the escaped convict.
-- But down beneath me in a cleft of the hills there was a circle of the old stone huts, and in the middle of them there was one which retained sufficient roof to act as a screen against the weather.
-- When I thought of the heavy rains and looked at the gaping roof I understood how strong and immutable must be the pur-pose which had kept him in that inhospitable abode.
-- Before us lay the dark bulk of the house, its serrated roof and bristling chimneys hard out-lined against the silver-spangled sky.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's the old martin house, but I've stopped up the door and made the roof open, so it will hold all sorts of things, and save our valuable time.
-- She put on her hat and jacket as noiselessly as possible, and going to the back entry window, got out upon the roof of a low porch, swung herself down to the grassy bank, and took a roundabout way to the road.
-- Mrs. Kirke asked me if I wouldn't go down to the five o'clock dinner, and feeling a little bit home-sick, I thought I would, just to see what sort of people are under the same roof with me.
-- Four little names, one on each lid, Carved out by a boyish hand, And underneath there lieth hid Histories of the happpy band Once playing here, and pausing oft To hear the sweet refrain, That came and went on the roof aloft, In the falling summer rain.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The roof is about twelve feet high, and runs to a pretty sharp angle, as if there were a regular ridge-pole there; while these ribbed, arched, hairy sides, present us with those wondrous, half vertical, scimetar-shaped slats of whalebone, say three hundred on a side, which depending from the upper part of the head or crown bone, form those Venetian blinds which have elsewhere been cursorily mentioned.
-- To cross to the other side of the deck was like walking up the steep gabled roof of a house.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I have not slept under a roof since I left the country.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- - This day I went to work with it according-ly, and got two shores or posts pitched upright to the top, with two pieces of boards across over each post; this I fin-ished the next day; and setting more posts up with boards, in about a week more I had the roof secured, and the posts, standing in rows, served me for partitions to part off the house.
-- The case was thus: As I was busy in the inside, behind my tent, just at the entrance into my cave, I was terribly fright-ed with a most dreadful, surprising thing indeed; for all on a sudden I found the earth come crumbling down from the roof of my cave, and from the edge of the hill over my head, and two of the posts I had set up in the cave cracked in a frightful manner.
-- When I had got through the strait, I found the roof rose higher up, I believe near twenty feet; but never was such a glorious sight seen in the island, I dare-say, as it was to look round the sides and roof of this vault or cave - the wall reflected a hundred thousand lights to me from my two candles.
-- As there was a door or entrance there into my cave, I made a formal framed door-case, and a door to it, of boards, and set it up in the passage, a little within the en-trance; and, causing the door to open in the inside, I barred it up in the night, taking in my ladders, too; so that Friday could no way come at me in the inside of my innermost wall, without making so much noise in getting over that it must needs awaken me; for my first wall had now a complete roof over it of long poles, covering all my tent, and leaning up to the side of the hill; which was again laid across with smaller sticks, instead of laths, and then thatched over a great thick-ness with the rice- straw, which was strong, like reeds; and at the hole or place which was left to go in or out by the lad-der I had placed a kind of trap- door, which, if it had been attempted on the outside, would not have opened at all, but would have fallen down and made a great noise - as to weap-ons, I took them all into my side every night.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a house, Barton Cottage, though small, was comfortable and compact; but as a cottage it was defective, for the building was regular, the roof was tiled, the window shutters were not painted green, nor were the walls covered with honeysuckles.
-- "You have heard, I suppose," said he with great solemnity, as soon as he was seated, "of the very shocking discovery that took place under our roof yesterday."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the stolidity and indifference of despair, however, he endured it all, sleeping in an attic at the roof of the house, eating what the cook gave him, accepting a few dollars a week, which he tried to save.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just then Sherburn steps out on to the roof of his little front porch, with a double-barrel gun in his hand, and takes his stand, perfectly ca'm and deliberate, not saying a word.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A poor father and a poorer son, without food and with no roof to cover them," answered the Marionette.
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