countenance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 容貌， 支持，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《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The calm countenance of the guide seemed to gleam upon me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Strangers were stared out of countenance by staring white houses, staring white walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away.
-- Neither is there any expression of the human countenance at all like that expression in every little line of which the frightened heart is seen to beat.
-- There is no such place in that part now; but it remained there for many years, looking with a baulked countenance at the wilderness patched with unfruitful gardens and pimpled with eruptive summerhouses, that it had meant to run over in no time.
-- Mr Merdle didn't want him, and was put out of countenance when the great creature looked at him; but inappeasable Society would have him and had got him.
-- Mr Meagles with a despondent countenance in which the goodness of his heart was even more expressed than in his times of cheerfulness and gaiety, stroked his face down from his forehead to his chin, and shook his head again.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hannah, quite worn out, lay down on the sofa at the bed's foot and fell fast asleep, Mr. Laurence marched to and fro in the parlor, feeling that he would rather face a rebel battery than Mrs. March's countenance as she entered.
-- Then she could not endure the dog, a fat, cross beast who snarled and yelped at her when she made his toilet, and who lay on his back with all his legs in the air and a most idiotic expression of countenance when he wanted something to eat, which was about a dozen times a day.
-- There were to be no ceremonious performances, ev-erything was to be as natural and homelike as possible, so when Aunt March arrived, she was scandalized to see the bride come running to welcome and lead her in, to find the bridegroom fastening up a garland that had fallen down, and to catch a glimpse of the paternal minister marching upstairs with a grave countenance and a wine bottle under each arm.
-- 'So we are to countenance things and people which we detest, merely because we are not belles and millionaires, are we?
-- Down went the highest pair of heels, up rose the smoki-est gentleman, and carefully cherishing his cigar between his fingers, he advanced with a nod and a countenance expressive of nothing but sleep.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether any of the relatives of the seamen whose names appeared there were now among the congregation, I knew not; but so many are the unrecorded accidents in the fishery, and so plainly did several women present wear the countenance if not the trappings of some unceasing grief, that I feel sure that here before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.
-- Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face at least to my taste his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable.
-- very benevolent countenance then; but how hard he breathes, he's heaving himself; get off, Queequeg, you are heavy, it's grinding the face of the poor.
-- More and more strangely and fiercely glad and approving, grew the countenance of the old man at every shout; while the mariners began to gaze curiously at each other, as if marvelling how it was that they themselves became so excited at such seemingly purposeless questions.
-- Though not one of the oarsmen was then facing the life and death peril so close to them ahead, yet with their eyes on the intense countenance of the mate in the stern of the boat, they knew that the imminent instant had come; they heard, too, an enormous wallowing sound as of fifty elephants stirring in their litter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Gamfield's countenance brightened, as, with a quick step, he returned to the table, and said, 'What'll you give, gen'l'men?
-- 'You're a rough speaker, my friend, but you look an honest, open-hearted man,' said the old gentleman: turning his spectacles in the direction of the candidate for Oliver's premium, whose villainous countenance was a regular stamped receipt for cruelty.
-- But, as it chanced to be immediately under his nose, it followed, as a matter of course, that he looked all over his desk for it, without finding it; and happening in the course of his search to look straight before him, his gaze encountered the pale and terrified face of Oliver Twist: who, despite all the admonitory looks and pinches of Bumble, was regarding the repulsive countenance of his future master, with a mingled expression of horror and fear, too palpable to be mistaken, even by a half-blind magistrate.
-- But the old gentleman could recall no one countenance of which Oliver's features bore a trace.
-- If he were really not in the habit of drinking rather more than was exactly good for him, he might have brought action against his countenance for libel, and have recovered heavy damages.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Darcy cor-roborated it with a bow, and was beginning to determine not to fix his eyes on Elizabeth, when they were suddenly arrested by the sight of the stranger, and Elizabeth happen-ing to see the countenance of both as they looked at each other, was all astonishment at the effect of the meeting.
-- She could have added, 'A young man, too, like YOU, whose very countenance may vouch for your being amiable' but she contented herself with, 'and one, too, who had probably been his companion from childhood, connected together, as I think you said, in the closest manner!'
-- 'I want to know,' said she, with a countenance no less smiling than her sister's, 'what you have learnt about Mr. Wickham.
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