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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here the pure, dry atmosphere whitens everything rapidly, both linen and souls.
-- The Major washed the wound first with fresh water and then closed the orifice; after this he put on a thick pad of lint, and then folds of scraped linen held firmly in place with a bandage.
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：
-- In his tweed suit and cloth cap he looked like any other tourist upon the moor, and he had contrived, with that cat-like love of personal cleanliness which was one of his characteristics, that his chin should be as smooth and his linen as perfect as if he were in Baker Street.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was always well dressed, and his linen was exquisite.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then they laid it on a bier and covered it with a linen cloth from head to foot, and over this they laid a fair white robe.
-- With many tears they singled out the whitened bones of their loved comrade and laid them within a golden urn in two layers of fat: they then covered the urn with a linen cloth and took it inside the tent.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suddenly, with a start, he perceived a coiled and blood-stained bandage of linen rag hanging in mid-air, between him and the wash-hand stand.
-- And not only paper, but cotton fibre, linen fibre, wool fibre, woody fibre, and bone, Kemp, flesh, Kemp, hair, Kemp, nails and nerves, Kemp, in fact the whole fabric of a man except the red of his blood and the black pigment of hair, are all made up of transparent, colourless tissue.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the glasses had been returned to the watches of the engineer and reporter, Pencroft burned a little linen to serve as tinder.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then going through some small strange motions with it whether indispensable to the magnetizing of the steel, or merely intended to augment the awe of the crew, is uncertain he called for linen thread; and moving to the binnacle, slipped out the two reversed needles there, and horizontally suspended the sail-needle by its middle, over one of the compass-cards.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Spyers no sooner heard this, than he put some clean linen and a comb, in his pocket, in case he should have to stop a day or two; and away he goes, and sets himself down at one of the public-house windows behind the little red curtain, with his hat on, all ready to bolt out, at a moment's notice.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I called a council - that is to say in my thoughts - whether I should take back the raft; but this appeared impracticable: so I re-solved to go as before, when the tide was down; and I did so, only that I stripped before I went from my hut, having noth-ing on but my chequered shirt, a pair of linen drawers, and a pair of pumps on my feet.
-- Linen I had none left but what was mere rags; I had goat's hair, but neither knew how to weave it or spin it; and had I known how, here were no tools to work it with.
-- He had no clothes on but a seaman's waistcoat, a pair of open-kneed linen draw-ers, and a blue linen shirt; but nothing to direct me so much as to guess what nation he was of.
-- I found some very good shirts, which were very welcome to me; and about a dozen and a half of white linen handkerchiefs and coloured neckcloths; the former were also very welcome, being exceedingly refreshing to wipe my face in a hot day.
-- When he had done this, we came back to our castle; and there I fell to work for my man Friday; and first of all, I gave him a pair of linen drawers, which I had out of the poor gunner's chest I mentioned, which I found in the wreck, and which, with a little alteration, fitted him very well; and then I made him a jerkin of goat's skin, as well as my skill would allow (for I was now grown a tolerably good tailor); and I gave him a cap which I made of hare's skin, very con-venient, and fashionable enough; and thus he was clothed, for the present, tolerably well, and was mighty well pleased to see himself almost as well clothed as his master.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When your father and mother moved to Norland, though the furniture of Stanhill was sold, all the china, plate, and linen was saved, and is now left to your mother.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From his coat sleeves protruded a pair of linen cuffs of the same pattern, fastened with large, gold plate buttons, set with the common yellow agates known as "cat's-eyes."
-- The casual wanderer could see as he passed a polished array of office fixtures, much frosted glass, clerks hard at work, and genteel businessmen in "nobby" suits and clean linen lounging about or sitting in groups.
-- In the dining-room the table was clean laid with linen and napery and shiny with glasses and decorated china.
-- While he was thinking thus elatedly, he remembered that he wanted some clean linen in the morning.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His hands was long and thin, and every day of his life he put on a clean shirt and a full suit from head to foot made out of linen so white it hurt your eyes to look at it; and on Sundays he wore a blue tail-coat with brass buttons on it.
-- They dressed in white linen from head to foot, like the old gentleman, and wore broad Panama hats.
-- Some of the young men was barefooted, and some of the children didn't have on any clothes but just a tow- linen shirt.
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