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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was followed closely by Jack, a black little boy often, hastily buttoning a white linen jacket with one hand and bearing in the other a fly-swisher, made of thin strips ofnewspaper tied to a reed longer than he was.
-- Since eight o'clock she hadbeen trying on and rejecting dresses, and now she stood dejected and irritable in lace pantalets, linen corset cover andthree billowing lace and linen petticoats.
-- The Wilkes butler, Tom, was hurrying through the halls, a silver tray in his hands, bowing and grinning, as he offeredtall glasses to young men in fawn and gray trousers and fine ruffled linen shirts.
-- Rhett Butler removed a fine linen handkerchief from his coat pocket andidly flicked dust from his sleeve.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When my ablutions were completed, I was put into clean linen of the stiffest character, like a young penitent into sackcloth, and was trussed up in my tightest and fearfullest suit.
-- We all three went to it, behind the wire blind, and presently saw the client go by in an accidental manner, with a murderous-looking tall individual, in a short suit of white linen and a paper cap.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two hundred sempstresses were em-ployed to make me shirts, and linen for my bed and table, all of the strongest and coarsest kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in several folds, for the thickest was some degrees finer than lawn.
-- Five hundred workmen were employed to make two sails to my boat, according to my directions, by quilting thirteen folds of their strongest linen together.
-- The girl had lined it on all sides with the softest cloth she 118 Gulliver's Travelscould get, well quilted underneath, furnished it with her baby's bed, provided me with linen and other necessaries, and made everything as convenient as she could.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She steeped a piece of linen in a basin, into which she poured some liquid from a bottle, and laid it with a gentle hand upon the sore.
-- 'I thought it must be near three,' she said, calmly pouring from the cup into the basin, and steeping the linen as before.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A mast, made of two pieces of wood fastened together, to give additional strength, a yard made from another one, the sail a linen sheet from our bed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little staircase windows looked in at the back windows of other houses as unwholesome as itself, with poles and lines thrust out of them, on which unsightly linen hung; as if the inhabitants were angling for clothes, and had had some wretched bites not worth attending to.
-- 'He won't go out, even in the back-yard, when there's no linen; but when there's linen to keep the neighbours' eyes off, he'll sit there, hours.
-- Descending into the sea again after dinner, and ascending out of it at the Opera staircase, preceded by one of their gondoliers, like an attendant Merman, with a great linen lantern, they entered their box, and Mr Sparkler entered on an evening of agony.
-- said Flora, 'with the grapes growing everywhere and lava necklaces and bracelets too that land of poetry with burning mountains picturesque beyond belief though if the organ-boys come away from the neighbourhood not to be scorched nobody can wonder being so young and bringing their white mice with them most humane, and is she really in that favoured land with nothing but blue about her and dying gladiators and Belvederes though Mr F. himself did not believe for his objection when in spirits was that the images could not be true there being no medium between expensive quantities of linen badly got up and all in creases and none whatever, which certainly does not seem probable though perhaps in consequence of the extremes of rich and poor which may account for it.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo in maroon, with a stiff, gentle-manly linen collar, and a white chrysanthemum or two for her only ornament.
-- Each wore a large, flapping hat, a brown linen pouch slung over one shoulder, and carried a long staff.
-- To Beth (if she lives after me) I give my dolls and thelittle bureau, my fan, my linen collars and my new slippers if she can wear them being thin when she gets well.
-- 'Do you know I like this room most of all in my baby house,' added Meg, a minute after, as they went upstairs and she looked into her well-stored linen closet.
-- All three laughed as Meg spoke, for that linen closet was a joke.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was fair to presume that being a harpooneer, his linen or woollen, as the case might be, would not be of the tidiest, certainly none of the finest.
-- again growled the cannibal, while his horrid flourishings of the tomahawk scattered the hot tobacco ashes about me till I thought my linen would get on fire.
-- As devout Eckerman lifted the linen sheet from the naked corpse of Goethe, he was overwhelmed with the massive chest of the man, that seemed as a Roman triumphal arch.
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