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 laughter and the oaths came from those who were listening and also from those who had heard nothing but were simply looking at the figure of the discharged government clerk.
-- It's clear that Rodion Romanovitch Ras-kolnikov is the central figure in the business, and no one else.
-- He, too, must have seemed a strange figure to him: dressed in rags and handing him money!
-- Then with the same de-liberation he scrutinised the uncouth, unkempt figure and unshaven face of Razumihin, who looked him boldly and inquiringly in the face without rising from his seat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The setting sun was glowing on the strange lady, overthe garden fence, and she came walking up to the door with a fellrigidity of figure and composure of countenance that could havebelonged to nobody else.
-- The light, bold, fluttering little figure turned and came back safe tome, and I soon laughed at my fears, and at the cry I had uttered;fruitlessly in any case, for there was no one near.
-- 'Because,' said she, 'I grieve to tell you that I hear this morningyour mamma is very ill.' A mist rose between Mrs. Creakle andme, and her figure seemed to move in it for an instant.
-- A figure appeared in the distance before long, and I soon knew itto be Em'ly, who was a little creature still in stature, though shewas grown.
-- It seems to me at this hour, that Ihave never seen such sunlight as on those bright April afternoons;that I have never seen such a sunny little figure as I used to see,sitting in the doorway of the old boat; that I have never beheldsuch sky, such water, such glorified ships sailing away into goldenair.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I do not know what I could imagine, but I confess that I have seldom seen a face or figure more pleasing to me than hers.
-- Her height was pretty, just such as almost every body would think tall, and no-body could think very tall; her figure particularly graceful; her size a most becoming medium, between fat and thin, though a slight appearance of ill-health seemed to point out the likeliest evil of the two.
-- She had an unhappy state of health in general for the child of such a man, for she hardly knew what indisposition was; and if he did not invent illnesses for her, she could make no figure in a message.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may have been observed by persons who go about the shires with eyes for beauty, that in Englishwoman a classically-formed face is seldom found to be united with a figure of the same pattern, the highly-finished features being generally too large for the remainder of the frame; that a graceful and proportionate figure of eight heads usually goes off into random facial curves.
-- From the contours of her figure in its upper part, she must have had a beautiful neck and shoulders; but since her infancy nobody had ever seen them.
-- When abreast of a trunk which appeared to be the oldest of the old, he became aware that a figure was standing behind it.
-- It suggested a consumption too great of a vitality which, to judge from her figure and stature, was already too little.
-- This aged man was now sitting opposite the fire, his frosty white hair and beard overgrowing his gnarled figure like the grey moss and lichen upon a leafless apple-tree.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She is an oldish woman, with a bloated countenance, and a nose like a parrot's beak set in the middle of it; her fat little hands (she is as sleek as a church rat) and her shapeless, slouching figure are in keeping with the room that reeks of misfortune, where hope is reduced to speculate for the meanest stakes.
-- At the beginning of Eugene de Rastignac's second twelvemonth, this figure suddenly started out into bold relief against the background of human forms and faces among which the law student was yet to live for another two years to come.
-- Surely a clever and high-spirited young man, whose wit and courage were set off to advantage by a graceful figure and the vigorous kind of beauty that readily strikes a woman's imagination, need not despair of finding a protectress.
-- To begin with, the sight of the fair carefully arranged curls on the other's comely head had convinced him that his own crop was hideous; Maxime's boots, moreover, were elegant and spotless, while his own, in spite of all his care, bore some traces of his recent walk; and, finally, Maxime's overcoat fitted the outline of his figure gracefully, he looked like a pretty woman, while Eugene was wearing a black coat at half-past two.
-- Victory for yet a few more days was with the great lady, the most poetic figure in the Faubourg Saint-Germain; and the marriage of the Marquis d'Ajuda-Pinto with Mlle.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No incidents have hitherto befallen us that would make a figure in a letter.
-- I have prevented his encountering the inconveniences and perhaps dangers of so long a journey, yet how often have I regretted not being able to perform it myself!I figure to myself that the task of attending on your sickbed has devolved on some mercenary old nurse, who could never guess your wishes nor minister to them with the care and affection of your poor cousin.
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