furniture是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 家具，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The furniture was not the same, and the figure in the chair was not himself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Daring bur-glaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellowtradesman whom he stopped in his character of 'the Captain,' gallantly shot him through the head and rode away; the mall was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, 'in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:' after which the mall was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the Lord May-or of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond cross-es from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the mus-keteers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way.
-- Simple as the furniture was, it was set off by so many little adornments, of no value but for their taste and fancy, that its effect was delightful.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What he considered necessary was to cover all the furniture with cretonne, to put up curtains, to weed the garden, to make a little bridge on the pond, and to plant flowers.
-- He felt so mirthful that, contrary to his rules, he made a reduction in his terms to the haggling lady, and gave up catching moths, finally deciding that next winter he must have the furniture covered with velvet, like Sigonin's.
-- He jeered at the way in which she arranged the furniture they had brought from Moscow; rearranged their room; hung up curtains; prepared rooms for visitors; a room for Dolly; saw after an abode for her new maid; ordered dinner of the old cook; came into collision with Agafea Mihalovna, taking from her the charge of the stores.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was announced in the Winnemac Daily News that Dr. Geake had been called from the chair of otolaryngology to the vice-presidency of the puissant New Idea Medical Instrument and Furniture Company of Jersey City.
-- I'll rent it to you, furniture and the whole shooting-match, for fifteen dollars a month, if you'll pay me one year in advance.
-- Chapter 15 With none of the profane observations on "medical peddlers" which had annoyed Digamma Pi, Martin studied the catalogue of the New Idea Instrument and Furniture Company, of Jersey City.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There his progress was barred by some porters who were engaged in moving furniture out of a flat.
-- Everything was very clean; the floor and the furniture were brightly polished; everything shone.
-- The furniture was in keeping with the room: there were three old chairs, rather rickety; a painted table in the corner on which lay a few manuscripts and books; the dust that lay thick upon them showed that they had been long untouched.
-- There was scarcely any furniture in the big room: in the corner on the right was a bedstead, beside it, nearest the door, a chair.
-- In the same way the upholsterers refused to return a single rouble of the instalment paid for the furniture purchased but not yet removed to the flat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't know how the household furniture came to be sold for thefamily benefit, or who sold it, except that I did not.
-- As I laid down my pen,a moment since, to think of it, the air from the sea came blowing inagain, mixed with the perfume of the flowers; and I saw the old-fashioned furniture brightly rubbed and polished, my aunt'sinviolable chair and table by the round green fan in thebowwindow, the drugget-covered carpet, the cat, the kettle-holder,the two canaries, the old china, the punch-bowl full of dried rose-leaves, the tall press guarding all sorts of bottles and pots, and,wonderfully out of keeping with the rest, my dusty self upon thesofa, taking note of everything.
-- It was a prettily furnished room, with a piano and somelively furniture in red and green, and some flowers.
-- She gave me one piece of intelligence which affected me verymuch, namely, that there had been a sale of the furniture at our oldhome, and that Mr. and Miss Murdstone were gone away, and thehouse was shut up, to be let or sold.
-- The furniture of the room was old-fashioned and dusty; and the green baize on the top of the writingtable had lost all its colour, and was as withered and pale as an oldpauper.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mouldy pile was dreary in winter-time before the candles were lighted and the shutters closed; the atmosphere of the place seemed as old as the walls; every nook behind the furniture had a temperature of its own, for the fire was not kindled in this part of the house early in the day; and Bathsheba's new piano, which was an old one in other annals, looked particularly sloping and out of level on the warped floor before night threw a shade over its less prominent angles and hid the unpleasantness.
-- The two sat down very quietly to tea in Bathsheba's parlour in the evening of the same day, for it had been arranged that Farmer Oak should go there to live, since he had as yet neither money, house, nor furniture worthy of the name, though he was on a sure way towards them, whilst Bathsheba was, comparatively, in a plethora of all three.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The furniture is covered with horse hair woven in alternate dull and glossy stripes.
-- Here you see that indestructible furniture never met with elsewhere, which finds its way into lodging- houses much as the wrecks of our civilization drift into hospitals for incurables.
-- It would be impossible to give an idea of the old, rotten, shaky, cranky, worm-eaten, halt, maimed, one-eyed, rickety, and ramshackle condition of the furniture without an exhaustive description, which would delay the progress of the story to an extent that impatient people would not pardon.
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