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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wore a dress of dark-blue silky stuff, with ruches of blue and green linen lace in the neck and sleeves; and she had emerald-green stockings.
-- "This is Mrs Brangwen," sang Hermione, and Laura, who wore a stiff embroidered linen dress, shook hands and said she was glad to see her.
-- She listened, watching, hoping no one would hear the starched linen crackle.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The steel was struck, the burnt linen caught the sparks of flint, and, under Neb's breath, a crackling fire showed itself in a few minutes under the shelter of the rocks.
-- They had no time, since they had to provide for the immediate wants of their existence, and though, profiting by acquired experience, they had nothing to invent, still they had everything to make; their iron and their steel were as yet only in the state of minerals, their earthenware in the state of clay, their linen and their clothes in the state of textile material.
-- Pencroft was not mistaken, and he gave vent to his feelings in a tremendous hurrah, adding, "There is good cloth!There is what will furnish us with linen for years.
-- Chapter 8 The first week of January was devoted to the manufacture of the linen garments required by the colony.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Codlin, still doomed to contemplate the harsh realities of existence, was packing among his linen the candle-ends which had been saved from the previous night's performance; while his companion received the compliments of all the loungers in the stable-yard, who, unable to separate him from the master-mind of Punch, set him down as next in importance to that merry outlaw, and loved him scarcely less.
-- The two men being well used to it, did a great deal in a short time; and Mrs Jarley served out the tin tacks from a linen pocket like a toll-collector's which she wore for the purpose, and encouraged her assistants to renewed exertion.
-- said Mr Brass smiling fondly at the wall, 'his linen which was always of a particular colour, for such was his whim and fancy how plain I see his linen now!'
-- The same room certainly, and still by candlelight; but with what unbounded astonishment did he see all those bottles, and basins, and articles of linen airing by the fire, and such-like furniture of a sick chamber all very clean and neat, but all quite different from anything he had left there, when he went to bed!The atmosphere, too, filled with a cool smell of herbs and vinegar; the floor newly sprinkled; the the what?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Over her linen stockings she wore jail shoes; her head was covered with a white 'kerchief, from under which black curls were evidently purposely brushed over the forehead.
-- He gave a ruble to a blind beggar; the servants received as tips fifteen rubles, and when Sophia Ivanovna's lap-dog, Suzette, hurt her leg so that it bled, he volunteered to bandage it, and without a moment's consideration tore his fine linen handkerchief (Sophia Ivanovna knew that those handkerchiefs were worth fifteen rubles a dozen) and made bandages of it for the dog.
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