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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I said these words, I perceived in the gloom a figure which stole from behind a clump of trees near me; I stood fixed, gazing intently: I could not be mistaken.
-- The figure passed me quickly, and I lost it in the gloom.
-- As I said this I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman speed.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett could not imagine her mother's handswithout her gold thimble or her rustling figure unaccompanied by the small negro girl whose sole function in life wasto remove basting threads and carry the rosewood sewing box from room to room, as Ellen moved about the housesuperintending the cooking, the cleaning and the wholesale clothes-making for the plantation.
-- The Wilkeses, the Calverts, theTarletons, the Fontaines, all smiled when the small figure on the big white horse galloped up their driveways, smiledand signaled for tall glasses in which a pony of Bourbon had been poured over a teaspoon of sugar and a sprig ofcrushed mint.
-- As she stood before the mirror and twisted herself about to get a side view, she thought that there was absolutelynothing about her figure to cause her shame.
-- She had often heard of people cutting off their noses to spite their faces but heretoforeit had been only a figure of speech.
-- Scarlett stood on the lower step of the train, a pale pretty figure in her black mourning dress, her cr脙陋pe veilfluttering almost to her heels.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was tall and bony, and almost always wore a coarse apron, fastened over her figure behind with two loops, and having a square impregnable bib in front, that was stuck full of pins and needles.
-- Now, Pip,"--Joe looked firmly at me as if he knew I was not going to agree with him;--"your sister is a fine figure of a woman."
-- And after each figure was disposed of, it was as much as I could do to get a bite or a sup, before the next came; while he sat at his ease guessing nothing, and eating bacon and hot roll, in (if I may be allowed the expression) a gorging and gormandizing manner.
-- I saw that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose had shrunk to skin and bone.
-- I turned my eyes--a little dimmed by looking up at the frosty light--towards a great wooden beam in a low nook of the building near me on my right hand, and I saw a figure hanging there by the neck.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You shall soon learn what shuddering is,' thought he, and secretly went there before him; and when the boy was at the top of the tower and turned round, and was just going to take hold of the bell rope, he saw a white figure stand-ing on the stairs opposite the sounding hole.
-- 331cried he, but the figure made no reply, and did not move or stir.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a white staff, near as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed 'how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I: and yet,' says he, 'I dare engage these creatures have their titles and distinctions of honour; they contrive little nests and bur-rows, that they call houses and cities; they make a figure in dress and equipage; they love, they fight, they dispute, they cheat, they betray!'
-- Imagination can figure nothing so grand, so sur-prising, and so astonishing!it looked as if ten thousand flashes of lightning were darting at the same time from ev-ery quarter of the sky.
-- He first took my altitude by a quadrant, and then, with a rule and compasses, described the dimensions and outlines of my whole body, all which he entered upon paper; and in six days brought my clothes very ill made, and quite out of shape, by happening to mistake a figure in the calcu-lation.
-- I made my humblest acknowledgment to this illustrious person, for his great communicativeness; and promised, 'if ever I had the good fortune to return to my native coun-try, that I would do him justice, as the sole inventor of this 230 Gulliver's Travelswonderful machine;' the form and contrivance of which I desired leave to delineate on paper, as in the figure here annexed.
-- In the meantime, he desired 'I would go on with my utmost diligence to learn their lan-guage, because he was more astonished at my capacity for speech and reason, than at the figure of my body, whether it were covered or not;' adding, 'that he waited with some im-patience to hear the wonders which I promised to tell him.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had virtually retired from the wholesale hardware trade before he built Stone Lodge, and was now looking about for a suitable opportunity of making an arithmetical figure in Parliament.
-- Mrs. Sparsit was this lady's name; and she was a prominent figure in attendance on Mr. Bounderby's car, as it rolled along in triumph with the Bully of humility inside.
-- But, he had not gone the length of three streets, when he saw another of the shawled figures in advance of him, at which he looked so keenly that perhaps its mere shadow indistinctly reflected on the wet pavement if he could have seen it without the figure itself moving along from lamp to lamp, brightening and fading as it went would have been enough to tell him who was there.
-- She went, with her neat figure and her sober womanly step, down the dark street, and he stood looking after her until she turned into one of the small houses.
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