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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fat cook, a yard negro elevated by necessity to the kitchen, never had the mealson time, and the chambermaid, formerly a field hand, let dust accumulate on the furniture and never seemed to haveclean linen on hand, so that the arrival of guests was always the occasion of much stirring and to-do.
-- The cream-colored walls glowed withlight and the depths of the mahogany furniture gleamed deep red like wine, while the floor glistened as if it were glass,except where the rag rugs covered it and they were spots of gay color.
-- The heavy furniture rose up at her in the half-light, high-backed chairs with deep seats and wide arms, made for the tall Wilkes men, squatty soft chairs of velvet with velvethassocks before them for the girls.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If I could buy the furniture now hired for me," said I, "and one or two other little things, I should be quite at home there."
-- The furniture was all very solid and good, like his watch-chain.
-- Then I washed and dressed while they knocked the furniture about and made a dust; and so, in a sort of dream or sleep-waking, I found myself sitting by the fire again, waiting for--Him--to come to breakfast.
-- While I complied, he, not comprehending a single word, would stand before the fire surveying me with the air of an Exhibitor, and I would see him, between the fingers of the hand with which I shaded my face, appealing in dumb show to the furniture to take notice of my proficiency.
-- I saw the rooms that I was never to see again; here, a door half open; there, a door closed; all the articles of furniture around.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had an entire set of silver dishes and plates, and other necessar-ies, which, in proportion to those of the queen, were not much bigger than what I have seen in a London toy-shop for the furniture of a baby-house: these my little nurse kept in her pocket in a silver box, and gave me at meals as I want-ed them, always cleaning them herself.
-- Before I went to sleep, I gave him to understand that I had some valuable furniture in my box, too good to be lost: a fine hammock, a handsome field-bed, two chairs, a table, and a cabinet; that my closet was hung on all sides, or rather quilted, with silk and cotton; that if he would let one of the crew bring my closet into his cabin, I would open it there before him, and show him my goods.
-- For instance, when I am at home, and dressed as I ought to be, I carry on my body the workmanship of a hundred tradesmen; the building and furniture of my house employ as many more, and five times the number to adorn my wife.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Bounderby, who all this time had been standing, as before, on the hearth, bursting at the very furniture of the room with explosive humility.
-- A few books and writings were on an old bureau in a corner, the furniture was decent and sufficient, and, though the atmosphere was tainted, the room was clean.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the grotesque furniture interested her.
-- So at last Mr Mellors and Tom Phillips went to the cottage and fetched away most of the furniture and bedding, and unscrewed the handle of the pump, so she was forced to go.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old articles of furniture were in their old places; the Plagues of Egypt, much the dimmer for the fly and smoke plagues of London, were framed and glazed upon the walls.
-- 'I expect a few necessary articles of furniture to be delivered by the carrier, this afternoon.'
-- Amy opened a drawer in an old piece of furniture that was a chest of drawers above and a bedstead below, and produced two little bundles, which she handed to her brother and sister.
-- The furniture was formal, grave, and quaker-like, but well-kept; and had as prepossessing an aspect as anything, from a human creature to a wooden stool, that is meant for much use and is preserved for little, can ever wear.
-- Weakened in mind by his frequent losses of this instrument, and its determination not to stick in his eye, and more and more enfeebled in intellect every time he looked at the mysterious Clennam, he applied spoons to his eyes, forks, and other foreign matters connected with the furniture of the dinner-table.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a comfortable room, though the carpet was faded and the furniture very plain, for a good picture or two hung on the walls, books filled the recesses, chrysanthemums and Christmas roses bloomed in the win-dows, and a pleasant atmosphere of home peace pervaded it.
-- Not a speck escaped Aunt March's eye, and all the furniture had claw legs and much carving, which was never dusted to suit.
-- It's just the place for boys, the house is big, and the furniture strong and plain.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I then glanced round the room; and besides the bedstead and centre table, could see no other furniture belonging to the place, but a rude shelf, the four walls, and a papered fireboard representing a man striking a whale.
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