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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was thirty years of age, and his countenance expressed both courage and goodness, if the features were somewhat coarse.
-- Apparently it was the latter, for he threw a rapid glance on the combustible materials heaped up in the inclosure, and the expression of anxiety on his countenance seemed to deepen.
-- Paganel's countenance remained unmoved.
-- One might have doubted it, for his impassive countenance betokened no emotion whatever.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His bewilderment and his alarmed perplexity passed off, how-ever, and his lips now twitched with rage as he continued to stare evilly at his laughing guest, while his countenance became absolutely livid.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's a dim half-memory of be-ing lifted up to the gangway, and of a big red countenance covered with freckles and surrounded with red hair staring at me over the bulwarks.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet there was neither coarseness nor want of shadowing in a countenance that was exquisitely regular, and dignified and surpassingly beautiful.
-- The expanded chest, full formed limbs, and grave countenance of this warrior, would denote that he had reached the vigor of his days, though no symptoms of decay appeared to have yet weakened his manhood.
-- Notwithstanding the symptoms of habitual suspicion, his countenance was not only without guile, but at the moment at which he is introduced, it was charged with an expression of sturdy honesty.
-- The Indian then fastened his eyes keenly on the open countenance of Heyward, but meeting his glance, he turned them quickly away, and seating himself deliberately on the ground, he drew forth the remnant of some former repast, and began to eat, though not without first bending his looks slowly and cautiously around him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The envelope contained a sheet of elegant, little, hot-pressed paper, well covered with a lady's fair, flowing hand; and Elizabeth saw her sister's countenance change as she read it, and saw her dwelling in-tently on some particular passages.
-- The steady countenance which Miss Lucas had com-manded in telling her story, gave way to a momentary confusion here on receiving so direct a reproach; though, as it was no more than she expected, she soon regained her composure, and calmly replied: 'Why should you be surprised, my dear Eliza?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was all over as bright as a flame, so that I could but just bear to look towards him; his countenance was most inexpressibly dreadful, im-possible for words to describe.
-- I observed an extraordinary sense of pleasure appeared in his face, and his eyes sparkled, and his countenance discovered a strange eagerness, as if he had a mind to be in his own country again.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His countenance was thoroughly good-humoured; and his manners were as friendly as the style of his letter.
-- His appearance however was not unpleasing, in spite of his being in the opinion of Marianne and Margaret an absolute old bachelor, for he was on the wrong side of five and thirty; but though his face was not handsome, his countenance was sensible, and his address was particularly gentlemanlike.
-- I once knew a lady who in temper and mind greatly resembled your sister, who thought and judged like her, but who from an inforced change from a series of unfortunate circumstances" Here he stopt suddenly; appeared to think that he had said too much, and by his countenance gave rise to conjectures, which might not otherwise have entered Elinor's head.
-- He turned round on their coming in, and his countenance shewed that he strongly partook of the emotion which over-powered Marianne.
-- In about half an hour her mother returned, and though her eyes were red, her countenance was not uncheerful.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This never showed so much in anything he said as in a certain solemnity of countenance and the silent manner in which he slopped about.
-- she exclaimed, turning to him a determined countenance upon which was drawn a sharp and wrathful sneer.
-- Carrie's countenance fell.
-- At last it crossed his mind that there was a science of faces, and that a man could pick the liberal countenance if he tried.
-- Unless one were looking up this matter in particular, he could have stood at Sixth Avenue and Fifteenth Street for days around the noon hour and never have noticed that out of the vast crowd that surged along that busy thoroughfare there turned out, every few seconds, some weather- beaten, heavy-footed specimen of humanity, gaunt in countenance and dilapidated in the matter of clothes.
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