parlor是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 客厅, 休息室, <美>店，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The parlor was a big room, with a Dutch stove, and a screen dividing it into two.
-- His honor's in the old parlor now," the hall porter said, panting.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He returned home, and under the parlor lamp, with its green daisies on pink glass, the Tozers listened acutely, Bert stooping forward with open mouth.
-- Now she drew him into the back parlor and "So I'm going off to Washington--and you don't care a bit!"
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Arrangements had not yet beencompleted for obtaining the full quota of horses, but those who had horses performed what they imagined to be cavalrymaneuvers in the field behind the courthouse, kicked up a great deal of dust, yelled themselves hoarse and waved theRevolutionary-war swords that had been taken down from parlor walls.
-- Scarlett stood in her apple-green"second-day" dress in the parlor of Twelve Oaks amid the blaze of hundreds of candles, jostled by the same throng asthe night before, and saw the plain little face of Melanie Hamilton glow into beauty as she became Melanie Wilkes.
-- "Mother of God, no!In here, in the parlor on that settee."
-- He was home again, separated fromher only by the width of the parlor rug, and it took all her strength not to dissolve in happy tears every time she lookedat him sitting there on the sofa with Melly on one side and India on the other and Honey hanging over his shoulder.
-- She ran stumbling across the parlor and into the hall andclutched the ends of his sash.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meantime, Mrs. Joe put clean white curtains up, and tacked a new flowered flounce across the wide chimney to replace the old one, and uncovered the little state parlor across the passage, which was never uncovered at any other time, but passed the rest of the year in a cool haze of silver paper, which even extended to the four little white crockery poodles on the mantel-shelf, each with a black nose and a basket of flowers in his mouth, and each the counterpart of the other.
-- Mr. Pumblechook and I breakfasted at eight o'clock in the parlor behind the shop, while the shopman took his mug of tea and hunch of bread and butter on a sack of peas in the front premises.
-- I had believed in the best parlor as a most elegant saloon; I had believed in the front door, as a mysterious portal of the Temple of State whose solemn opening was attended with a sacrifice of roast fowls; I had believed in the kitchen as a chaste though not magnificent apartment; I had believed in the forge as the glowing road to manhood and independence.
-- Putting on the best clothes I had, I went into town as early as I could hope to find the shops open, and presented myself before Mr. Trabb, the tailor, who was having his breakfast in the parlor behind his shop, and who did not think it worth his while to come out to me, but called me into him.
-- I selected the materials for a suit, with the assistance of Mr. Trabb's judgment, and re-entered the parlor to be measured.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This apartment was kitchen, parlor and dining room all in one.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beth trotted to and fro between parlor kitchen, quiet and busy, while Amy gave directions to everyone, as she sat with her hands folded.
-- On New Year's Eve the parlor was deserted, for the two younger girls played dressing maids and the two elder were absorbed in the all-important business of 'getting ready for the party'.
-- 'All right, show her up, it's Miss Jo, 'said Laurie, going to the door of his little parlor to meet Jo, who appeared, look-ing rosy and quite at her ease, with a covered dish in one hand and Beth's three kittens in the other.
-- As she came up the street, on her return, she saw three, yes, four heads pop-ping in and out of the parlor windows, and the moment they saw her, several hands were waved, and several joyful voices screamed... 'Here's a letter from the old gentleman!Come quick, and read it!'
-- At the door her sisters seized and bore her to the parlor in a triumphal pro-cession, all pointing and all saying at once, 'Look there!
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His frontispiece, boats attacking Sperm Whales, though no doubt calculated to excite the civil scepticism of some parlor men, is admirably correct and life-like in its general effect.
-- The heavers forward now resume their song, and while the one tackle is peeling and hoisting a second strip from the whale, the other is slowly slackened away, and down goes the first strip through the main hatchway right beneath, into an unfurnished parlor called the blubber-room.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If some seemingly vulnerable object appeared he was all attention-- to pass the compliments of the day, to lead the way to the parlor car, carrying her grip, or, failing that, to take a seat next her with the hope of being able to court her to her destination.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as I was in the old gentleman he locked the door and barred it and bolted it, and told the young men to come in with their guns, and they all went in a big parlor that had a new rag carpet on the floor, and got together in a cor-ner that was out of the range of the front windows there warn't none on the side.
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