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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he cried, starting up, and catching sight of a figure standing by the door.
-- He had reached the corner of his own street, and was already fumbling in his pocket for the door-key, when a dark figure emerged from a projecting entrance which lay in deep shadow, and, crossing the road, glided up to him unperceived.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gentlemen pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his man-ners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud; to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Der-byshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be com-pared with his friend.
-- Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowl-edge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashion-able world, he was caught by their easy playfulness.
-- Her figure was el-egant, and she walked well; but Darcy, at whom it was all aimed, was still inflexibly studious.
-- There was neither in figure nor face any likeness between the ladies.
-- Miss Darcy was tall, and on a larger scale than Elizabeth; and, though little more than sixteen, her figure was formed, and her appearance womanly and graceful.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was surprised, and yet very well pleased, to see the young trees grow; and I pruned them, and led them up to grow as much alike as I could; and it is scarce credible how beautiful a figure they grew into in three years; so that though the hedge made a circle of about twenty-five yards in diameter, yet the trees, for such I might now call them, soon covered it, and it was a complete shade, sufficient to lodge under all the dry season.
-- And now I began to think sedately; and, upon debate with myself, I concluded that this island (which was so exceedingly pleasant, fruit-ful, and no farther from the mainland than as I had seen) was not so entirely abandoned as I might imagine; that al-though there were no stated inhabitants who lived on the spot, yet that there might sometimes come boats off from the shore, who, either with design, or perhaps never but when they were driven by cross winds, might come to this place; that I had lived there fifteen years now and had not met with the least shadow or figure of any people yet; and that, if at any time they should be driven here, it was prob-able they went away again as soon as ever they could, seeing they had never thought fit to fix here upon any occasion; that the most I could suggest any danger from was from any casual accidental landing of straggling people from the main, who, as it was likely, if they were driven hither, were here against their wills, so they made no stay here, but went off again with all possible speed; seldom staying one night on shore, lest they should not have the help of the tides and daylight back again; and that, therefore, I had nothing to do but to consider of some safe retreat, in case I should see any savages land upon the spot.
-- Upon this I resolved to discover myself to them, and learn something of their condition; immediately I marched as above, my man Friday at a good distance behind me, as formidable for his arms as I, but not making quite so staring a spectre-like figure as I did.
-- They started up at the noise, but were ten times more confounded when they saw me, and the uncouth figure that I made.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They wanted him to make a fine figure in the world in some manner or other.
-- But yet he is not the kind of young man there is something wanting his figure is not striking; it has none of that grace which I should expect in the man who could seriously attach my sister.
-- Lady Middleton was not more than six or seven and twenty; her face was handsome, her figure tall and striking, and her address graceful.
-- So altered so faded worn down by acute suffering of every kind!hardly could I believe the melancholy and sickly figure before me, to be the remains of the lovely, blooming, healthful girl, on whom I had once doted.
-- Well, at last, as I need not tell you, you were forced on me; and what a sweet figure I cut! what an evening of agony it was! Marianne, beautiful as an angel on one side, calling me Willoughby in such a tone! Oh, God! holding out her hand to me, asking me for an explanation, with those bewitching eyes fixed in such speaking solicitude on my face! and Sophia, jealous as the devil on the other hand, looking all that was Well, it does not signify; it is over now. Such an evening! I ran away from you all as soon as I could; but not before I had seen Marianne's sweet face as white as death. THAT was the last, last look I ever had of her; the last manner in which she appeared to me.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Warm with the fancies of youth, pretty with the insipid prettiness of the formative period, possessed of a figure promising eventual shapeliness and an eye alight with certain native intelligence, she was a fair example of the middle American class--two generations removed from the emigrant.
-- With her sister she was much alone, a lone figure in a tossing, thoughtless sea.
-- They did not figure on promotion.
-- He seemed quite a figure of a man, and she wondered at his friendship and regard for her.
-- Even then, in her commonplace garb, her figure was evidently not bad, and her eyes were large and gentle.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is very simple to figure out," answered the Fox.
-- "Why, you can figure it on your fingers!Granted that each piece gives you five hundred, multiply five hundred by five.
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