reverse是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. /a. 相反(的) ; 颠倒(的)，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The preceding rela-tive positions of himself and Lucie were reversed, yet only as the liveliest gratitude and affection could reverse them, for he could have had no pride but in rendering some ser-vice to her who had rendered so much to him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her aim in dress was now quite the reverse of that she had pursued thirty years before.
-- But what contributed more than all to his success was his direct, equable manner with everyone, which very quickly made the majority of the noblemen reverse the current opinion of his supposed haughtiness.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fix was not without his fears lest chance should direct the steps of the unfortunate servant, whom he had so badly treated, in this direction; in which case an explanation the reverse of satisfactory to the detective must have ensued.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A certain brightsmile, which I never saw on any other face, died away, even whileI thought how good it was, and how familiar it had once been tome; and she asked me, with a quick change of expression (we weredrawing very near my street), if I knew how the reverse in myaunt's circumstances had been brought about.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- united, what reverse we have!
-- But ah!united, (courtship, you know,) what reverse we have!
-- It was dreadfully mortifying; but Mr. Elton was proving himself, in many respects, the very reverse of what she had meant and believed him; proud, assuming, conceit-ed; very full of his own claims, and little concerned about the feelings of others.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passing from the profoundest sleep to the most alert wakefulness with the same ease that had accompanied the reverse operation, he looked at his watch, found that the hour-hand had shifted again, put on his hat, took the lamb in his arms, and carried it into the darkness.
-- This circumstance, and the generally sleepy air of the whole prospect here, together with the animated and contrasting state of the reverse fa脙搂ade, suggested to the imagination that on the adaptation of the building for farming purposes the vital principle of the house had turned round inside its body to face the other way.
-- Bathsheba was suffering from the reverse feeling just then, and they bowled along in silence.
-- Yet Farmer Boldwood, whether by nature kind or the reverse to kind, did not exercise kindness here.
-- The horse was seen descending the hill, and the wearisome series had to be repeated in reverse order: Whitepits, Springmead, Cappel's Piece, The Flats, Middle Field, Sheeplands, Sixteen Acres.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I dare not expect such success, yet I cannot bear to look on the reverse of the picture.
-- I was agonized with the idea of the pos-sibility that the reverse of this might happen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But that, in shutting out the light of day, she had shut out infinitely more; that, in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker, I knew equally well.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is no mystery in it; there is an unfathomable mystery in the meanest of them, for ever. Supposing we were to reverse our arithmetic for material objects, and to govern these awful unknown quantities by other means!
-- Slackbridge likewise sat down, wiping his hot forehead always from left to right, and never the reverse way.
-- Every one waited with his grasp set, and his body bent down to the work, ready to reverse and wind in.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How the Circumlocution Office, in a Minute, number eight thousand seven hundred and forty, 'saw no reason to reverse the decision at which my lords had arrived.'
-- And I tell you again, darling, that Mrs General, if I may reverse a common proverb and adapt it to her, is a cat in gloves who will catch mice.
-- 'The last time I heard it,' returned Arthur, 'was in a voice quite the reverse of pretty, and quite the reverse of innocent.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Steering as she had done, the wind had been somewhat on the Pequod's quarter, so that now being pointed in the reverse direction, the braced ship sailed hard upon the breeze as she rechurned the cream in her own white wake.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When breakfast was over she walked out by herself, and wandered about the village of Allenham, indulging the recollection of past enjoyment and crying over the present reverse for the chief of the morning.
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