ornament是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 装饰; 装饰物，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That is still better than to cross the sea!What a longing do I suffer!Were Christmas but come!I am now tall, and my branches spread like the others that were carried off last year!Oh!were I but already on the cart!Were I in the warm room with all the splendor and magnificence!Yes; then something better, something still grander, will surely follow, or wherefore should they thus ornament me?
-- It seemed really to the little maiden as though she were sitting before a large iron stove, with burnished brass feet and a brass ornament at top.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, we didn't expect you!Hope you're satisfied with the ornament of your study," he said, indicating the baroness.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not fail to observe the curious equipages carriages and palanquins, barrows supplied with sails, and litters made of bamboo; nor the women whom he thought not especially handsome who took little steps with their little feet, whereon they wore canvas shoes, straw sandals, and clogs of worked wood, and who displayed tight-looking eyes, flat chests, teeth fashionably blackened, and gowns crossed with silken scarfs, tied in an enormous knot behind an ornament which the modern Parisian ladies seem to have borrowed from the dames of Japan.
-- It seemed to him a terrible thing to have to guide so many wives at once across the vicissitudes of life, and to conduct them, as it were, in a body to the Mormon paradise with the prospect of seeing them in the company of the glorious Smith, who doubtless was the chief ornament of that delightful place, to all eternity.
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：
-- The cupola of the cathedral, which is seen at its best from the bridge about twenty paces from the chapel, glittered in the sunlight, and in the pure air every ornament on it could be clearly distin-guished.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My room was at the top of the house, at the back: a close chamber;stencilled all over with an ornament which my young imaginationrepresented as a blue muffin; and very scantily furnished.
-- Dr.Mell, in a speech replete with feeling, then proposed "Ourdistinguished Guest, the ornament of our town.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am resolved to have some in an ornament for the head.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The vast porches at the sides, lofty enough to admit a waggon laden to its highest with corn in the sheaf, were spanned by heavy-pointed arches of stone, broadly and boldly cut, whose very simplicity was the origin of a grandeur not apparent in erections where more ornament has been attempted.
-- Such a great ornament as they'd be to him on a dull afternoon, when he's up in the pulpit lighted by the wax candles!But 'tis impossible, poor man.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer's astonished eyes beheld no less than eighteen cambric-fronted shirts, the splendor of their fineness being enhanced by a pair of pins each bearing a large diamond, and connected by a short chain, an ornament which adorned the vermicelli-maker's shirt front.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- was tearing from her curls the seed-pearl ornament set in heavy gold which had been in thefamily for generations.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as I was out of all fear of being ill-treated under the protection of so great and good an empress, the ornament of nature, the darling of the world, the delight of her subjects, the phoenix of the creation, so I hoped my late master's apprehensions would appear to be groundless; for I already found my spirits re-vive, by the influence of her most august presence.'
-- That these were the ornament and bulwark of the kingdom, worthy followers of their most renowned ancestors, whose honour had been the reward of their virtue, from which their pos-terity were never once known to degenerate.
-- hus, gentle reader, I have given thee a faithful history Tof my travels for sixteen years and above seven months: wherein I have not been so studious of ornament as of truth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the interminable Sunday of his nonage; when his mother, stern of face and unrelenting of heart, would sit all day behind a Bible bound, like her own construction of it, in the hardest, barest, and straitest boards, with one dinted ornament on the cover like the drag of a chain, and a wrathful sprinkling of red upon the edges of the leaves as if it, of all books!were a fortification against sweetness of temper, natural affection, and gentle intercourse.
-- If you were not an ornament to Society, and if I was not a benefactor to Society, you and I would never have come together.
-- 'Even that affable and condescending ornament of society,' pursued Mr Meagles, 'may misrepresent us, we are afraid.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As she spoke, Amy showed the handsome flask which replaced the cheap one, and looked so earnest and humble in her little effort to forget herself that Meg hugged her on the spot, and Jo pronounced her 'a trump', while Beth ran to the window, and picked her finest rose to ornament the stately bottle.
-- 'Polish up my other talents, and be an ornament to soci-ety, if I get the chance.'
-- She remembered that Laurie never spoke voluntarily of Jo, she recalled the shadow on his face just now, the change in his character, and the wearing of the little old ring which was no ornament to a handsome hand.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl; and this punchbowl always forms the great central ornament on the braided mat where the feast is held.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I require so much!He must have all Edward's virtues, and his person and manners must ornament his goodness with every possible charm."
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