linen是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 亚麻布, 衬衣裤，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then up rose Mrs Cratchit, Cratchit's wife, dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap and make a goodly show for sixpence; and she laid the cloth, assisted by Belinda Cratchit, second of her daughters, also brave in ribbons; while Master Pe-ter Cratchit plunged a fork into the saucepan of potatoes, and getting the corners of his monstrous shirt collar (Bob's private property, conferred upon his son and heir in hon-our of the day) into his mouth, rejoiced to find himself so gallantly attired, and yearned to show his linen in the fash-ionable Parks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some of the hacked swords were tied to the wrists of those who carried them, with strips of linen and fragments of dress: ligatures various in kind, but all deep of the one colour.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had an old grey linen apron hanging over her head and back: it was so wet, it certainly must have been raining.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a merry chatter of peasant women over their linen at the pond, and the ring of axes in the yard, where the peasants were repairing ploughs and harrows.
-- On waking up the day after the races, Vronsky put on a white linen coat, and without shaving or taking his bath, he distributed about the table moneys, bills, and letters, and set to work.
-- In the courtyard the first objects that met Vronsky's eyes were a band of singers in white linen coats, standing near a barrel of vodka, and the robust, good-humored figure of the colonel surrounded by officers.
-- On the table stood medicine bottles and decanters tidily arranged, and the linen needed was folded up there, and Kitty's broderie anglaise.
-- Then he showed them the wards one after another, the storeroom, the linen room, then the heating stove of a new pattern, then the trolleys, which would make no noise as they carried everything needed along the corridors, and many other things.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The astounded world, the astounded and profane Clif Clawson, had the spectacle of Martin in shiny pressed clothes, a painful linen collar, and an arduously tied scarf, accompanying Mrs. Fox and the chastely chattering Madeline to the Mohalis Methodist Church, to hear the Reverend Dr. Myron Schwab discourse on "The One Way to Righteousness."
-- He washed his own linen in the bath-tub and, except for occasional fiercely delightful yieldings, he did not smoke.
-- The car was at first too well arranged to be interesting, but after three days, as he approached you on the flat road that without an inch of curving was slashed for leagues through the grassy young wheat, you saw the doctor in his khaki suit, his horn-rimmed spectacles, and white linen boating hat; his wife in a green flannel blouse and a lace boudoir cap.
-- They came with letters and photographs amid the frayed clean linen in their shabby suit-cases- -at any opportunity they would stoop over their bags and hopefully bring out testimonials from their Pastors; they begged for a chance to heal humanity, and for themselves only enough money to send The Girl to musical conservatory.
-- He was busy (while Sondelius was out ordering linen suits and seeking a proper new sun helmet) making anti-plague phage on a large scale: a hundred liters of it, sealed in tiny ampules.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 28 Crime and PunishmentAnd what's more, Ivan Ivanitch Klopstock the civil counsel-lor have you heard of him? has not to this day paid her for the half-dozen linen shirts she made him and drove her roughly away, stamping and reviling her, on the pretext that the shirt collars were not made like the pattern and were put in askew.
-- Often he went to sleep on it, as he was, without undressing, without sheets, wrapped in his old student's overcoat, with his head on one little pillow, under which he heaped up all the linen he had, clean and dirty, by way of a bolster.
-- An awful scene took place between them on the spot in the garden; Marfa Petrovna went so far as to strike Dounia, refused to hear anything and was shouting at her for a whole hour and then gave orders that Dounia should be packed off at once to me in a plain peasant's cart, into which they flung all her things, her linen and her clothes, all pell-mell, without folding it up and packing it.
-- He rummaged under his pillow and picked out amongst the linen stuffed away under it, a worn out, old unwashed shirt.
-- But what was his amazement when he suddenly saw that Nastasya was not only at home in the kitchen, but was occupied there, taking linen out of a basket and hanging it on a line.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I only observed that mymother was as far off from me as she could be, and kept her faceanother way, so that I never saw it; and that Mr. Murdstone's handwas bound up in a large linen wrapper.
-- I did not, anddo not, suppose that this neckerchief was all the linen he wore, butit was all he showed or gave any hint of.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Above the third story there was a garret where the linen was hung to dry, and a couple of attics.
-- When his outfit was worn out, he replaced the fine linen by calico at fourteen _sous_ the ell.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet she was meanly dressed, a coarse blue petticoat and a linen jacket being her only garb; her fair hair was plaited but not adorned: she looked patient yet sad.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fat cook, a yard negro elevated by necessity to the kitchen, never had the mealson time, and the chambermaid, formerly a field hand, let dust accumulate on the furniture and never seemed to haveclean linen on hand, so that the arrival of guests was always the occasion of much stirring and to-do.
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