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：
-- The strong glare of the fire fell full upon his sturdy, weath-er-beaten countenance and forest attire, lending an air of romantic wildness to the aspect of an individual, who, seen by the sober light of day, would have exhibited the peculiarities of a man remarkable for the strangeness of his dress, the iron-like inflexibility of his frame, and the singular compound of quick, vigilant sagacity, and of ex-quisite simplicity, that by turns usurped the possession of his muscular features.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes he embarrassed his wife, and the only time I saw her put out of countenance was when he insisted on telling me that he had taken a purge, and went into somewhat realistic details on the subject.
-- He is not embarrassed by the sans gene of the hobo, nor put out of countenance by the etiquette of the prince.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the street-corner he stopped, and regarding me with a troubled countenance said that our ways were widely different and that he must take his leave.
-- While they were in progress, Mr Quilp withdrew to the adjoining room, and, turning back his coat-collar, proceeded to smear his countenance with a damp towel of very unwholesome appearance, which made his complexion rather more cloudy than it was before.
-- CHAPTER 6Little Nell stood timidly by, with her eyes raised to the countenance of Mr Quilp as he read the letter, plainly showing by her looks that while she entertained some fear and distrust of the little man, she was much inclined to laugh at his uncouth appearance and grotesque attitude.
-- The legal gentleman being by this time rather giddy and perplexed in his ideas (for this was one of the operations of the tobacco on his nervous system), took the opportunity of slinking away into the open air, where, in course of time, he recovered sufficiently to return with a countenance of tolerable composure.
-- 'Here he is,' cried Mr Thomas Codlin, presenting his head and face in the proscenium of the stage, and exhibiting an expression of countenance not often seen there; 'and he'll see his partner boiled alive before he'll go on to-night.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Immediately behind him came a woman with weary countenance and disheveled gray hair, wearing a crown-laced jacket, and girdled with a blue-edged sash.
-- "Well, then, let him go," said the lawyer, and his benign and joyful countenance suddenly assumed a gloomy and angry expression.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The doctor changed countenance a little, but next moment he was master of himself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The man with the soft calm eyes listened to me quietly, even politely, and with extreme attention; but nothing in his countenance indicated that he had understood my story.
-- His countenance had resumed its habitual imperturbability.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heathcliff's countenance relaxed into a grin.
-- A miser who has parted with a lucky lottery ticket for five shillings, and finds next day he has lost in the bargain five thousand pounds, could not show a blanker countenance than he did on beholding the figure of Mr. Earnshaw above.
-- She seated herself by me again: her countenance grew sadder and graver, and her clasped hands trembled.
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