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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some one or other of these may so far pity him as to hold the cup for a moment towards him and let him moisten his lips, but he must not drink enough to wet the roof of his mouth; then one whose parents are alive will drive him from the table with blows and angry words.
-- They gripped each other in their strong hands like the rafters which some master-builder frames for the roof of a high house to keep the wind out.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went to the south window, threw it up, and leaning out stared down on the network of windows, beaded gas-lamps and shops, with its black interstices of roof and yard that made up the town at night.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a little while I lay flat, staring at the roof above me.
-- Then the thatched roof caught.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The domed roof had half fallen in and blocked up the underground passage from the palace by which the queens used to enter.
-- Mowgli was uneasy, because he had never been under a roof before.
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 roof of bark had long since fallen, and mingled with the soil, but the huge logs of pine, which had been hastily thrown together, still pre-served their relative positions, though one angle of the work had given way under the pressure, and threatened a speedy downfall to the remainder of the rustic edifice.
-- The smoke wreathed above their heads in little eddies, and curling in a spiral form it ascended swiftly through the opening in the roof of the lodge, leaving the place beneath clear of its fumes, and each dark visage distinctly visible.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His heart began to sink within him; he endeavored to resume his psalm tune, but his parched tongue clove to the roof of his mouth, and he could not ut-ter a stave.
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：
-- Here they made friends with others in as desperate condition as themselves, and when they were penniless and the night was bitter cold, they were glad to borrow from anyone who had earned a stray franc during the day the price of a roof over their heads.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On its left side it did not measure more than thirty feet in height and breadth, but on the right it was enormous, and its vaulted roof rose to a height of more than eighty feet.
-- The waters of the Mercy flowed under a roof of ice, which, at each rising and ebbing of the tide, broke up with loud crashes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 11Quiet and solitude were destined to hold uninterrupted rule no longer, beneath the roof that sheltered the child.
-- There were dull pigs too, turning up the ground in search of dainty food, and grunting their monotonous grumblings as they prowled about, or crossed each other in their quest; plump pigeons skimming round the roof or strutting on the eaves; and ducks and geese, far more graceful in their own conceit, waddling awkwardly about the edges of the pond or sailing glibly on its surface.
-- To be sure, it was a beautiful little cottage with a thatched roof and little spires at the gable-ends, and pieces of stained glass in some of the windows, almost as large as pocket-books.
-- It was not without great reluctance and misgiving that Mr Swiveller, next morning, his head racked by the fumes of the renowned Schiedam, repaired to the lodging of his friend Trent (which was in the roof of an old house in an old ghostly inn), and recounted by very slow degrees what had yesterday taken place between him and Quilp.
-- Without further preface he conducted them into his little school-room, which was parlour and kitchen likewise, and told them that they were welcome to remain under his roof till morning.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus he lived happily the first month under the roof of his aunts' dwelling, paying no attention to the half-servant, half-ward, the black-eyed, nimble-footed Katiousha.
-- To the left the roof of a shed seemed white under the bright light of the moon; in front were the tangled branches of the trees, through which was seen the dark shadow of the garden inclosure.
-- The sombre looking prison, the soldier on guard, the lantern behind the gate, notwithstanding the pure white layer of snow which had covered everything--the sidewalk, the roof and the walls-- made a gloomy impression.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The roof was in shadow, and the windows, partially glazed with coloured glass and partially unglazed, admitted a tempered light.
-- Except at one end where the roof had collapsed, this gallery was well preserved.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And part of the roof came off, and ever so much thunder got in and it went rolling round the room in great lumps and knocking over the tables and things till I was so frightened, I couldn't remember my own name!'
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