figure是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 体形； 轮廓； 数字； 图形v. 描绘； 计算； 推测，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：
-- It was a strange figure like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernat-ural medium, which gave him the appearance of having receded from the view, and being diminished to a child's proportions.
-- For as its belt sparkled and glittered now in one part and now in an-other, and what was light one instant, at another time was dark, so the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness: be-ing now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a body: of which dissolving parts, no outline would be visible in the dense gloom wherein they melted away.
-- But for this it would have been difficult to detach its figure from the night, and separate it from the darkness by which it was surrounded.
-- 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：
-- He never looked at the figure before him, without first looking down on this side of himself, then on that, as if he had lost the hab-it of associating place with sound; he never spoke, without first wandering in this manner, and forgetting to speak.
-- There was something awful in his unconsciousness of the figure that could have put out its hand and touched him as he stooped over his labour.
-- He looked to the spot where Defarge the vendor of wine had stood, a moment before; but the wretched father was 156 A tale of two citiesgrovelling on his face on the pavement in that spot, and the figure that stood beside him was the figure of a dark stout woman, knitting.
-- At the steepest point of the hill there was a little burial-ground, with a Cross and a new large figure of Our Saviour on it; it was a poor figure in wood, done by some inexperi-enced rustic carver, but he had studied the figure from the life his own life, maybe for it was dreadfully spare and thin.
-- The burial-place had got to the pass that its little heaps of poor grass were un-distinguishable from one another; the figure on the Cross might have come down, for anything that could be seen of it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a rapid glance she scanned his figure that beamed with health and freshness.
-- Chapter 10 When Levin went into the restaurant with Oblonsky, he could not help noticing a certain peculiarity of expression, as it were, a restrained radiance, about the face and whole figure of Stepan Arkadyevitch.
-- A few instants later the platform was quivering, and with puffs of steam hanging low in the air from the frost, the engine rolled up, with the lever of the middle wheel rhythmically moving up and down, and the stooping figure of the engine- driver covered with frost.
-- She went out with the rapid step which bore her rather fully-developed figure with such strange lightness.
-- His eyes followed her till her graceful figure was out of sight, and then the smile remained on his face.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His eyes were blue, his complexion rubicund, his figure almost portly and well-built, his body muscular, and his physical powers fully developed by the exercises of his younger days.
-- Fix took up a position, and carefully examined each face and figure which made its appearance.
-- It stood upright upon the figure of a prostrate and headless giant.
-- Her narrow and supple waist, which a hand may clasp around, sets forth the outline of her rounded figure and the beauty of her bosom, where youth in its flower displays the wealth of its treasures; and beneath the silken folds of her tunic she seems to have been modelled in pure silver by the godlike hand of Vicvarcarma, the immortal sculptor."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She trotted daily to the car-line, a neat, childish figure with note-books and sharpened pencils, to vanish in the horde of students.
-- Once when Dr. Loizeau, professor of surgery, had operated before a clinic which included several renowned visiting doctors--the small white figure of the surgeon below them, slashing between life and death, dramatic as a great actor taking his curtain-call--Martin came away certain that he was for surgery.
-- My way o' doing things suits me, and I don't figure on changing it for you or any other half-baked young string-bean."
-- I've got to figure this health department business out."
-- I'll tell you: There's some people say Pickerbaugh pulls the song and dance too much, but way I figure it, course maybe for you and me, Doctor, it'd be all right if he just looked after the milk and the garbage and the kids' teeth.
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：
-- Evidently Marmeladov was a familiar figure here, and he had most 22 Crime and Punishment likely acquired his weakness for high-flown speeches from the habit of frequently entering into conversation with strangers of all sorts in the tavern.
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