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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That's to say false in speech and false in action," said Paganel, after he had translated this beautiful figure of the Patagonian language.
-- Oh, Robert, comparison is the most dangerous figure in rhetoric that I know.
-- "Well, then, instead of ‘7 June' on this document, suppose that one figure has been destroyed by the sea-water, and read ‘17 June' or ‘27 June,' and all is explained."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I looked back at the platform when we had left it far be-hind, and saw the tall, austere figure of Holmes standing motionless and gazing after us.
-- The figure of a woman was silhouetted against the yellow light of the hall.
-- Her bulky figure in a shawl and skirt might have been comic were it not for the intensity of feeling upon her face.
-- I caught one glimpse of his short, squat, stronglybuilt figure as he sprang to his feet and turned to run.
-- There, outlined as black as an ebony statue on that shining back-ground, I saw the figure of a man upon the tor.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prince had hardly had time to wash and tidy himself a little when the door opened once more, and another figure appeared.
-- He thought he could distinguish a figure standing there.
-- Muishkin turned, and to his great surprise observed a red, flushed face and a droll-looking figure which he recognized at once as that of Ferdishenko.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My friends,' said he, 'I have had a dream from heaven in the dead of night, and its face and figure resembled none but Nestor's.
-- You have made me cut a poor figure and baulked my horses by flinging your own in front of them, though yours are much worse than mine are; therefore, O princes and counsellors of the Argives, judge between us and show no favour, lest one of the Achaeans say, 'Menelaus has got the mare through lying and corruption; his horses were far inferior to Antilochus's, but he has greater weight and influence.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And suddenly and most wonderfully the door of the room upstairs opened of its own accord, and as they looked up in amazement, they saw descending the stairs the muffled figure of the stranger staring more blackly and blankly than ever with those unreasonably large blue glass eyes of his.
-- For the man who stood there shouting some incoherent explanation, was a solid gesticulating figure up to the coat-collar of him, and then nothingness, no visible thing at all!
-- They saw in the dim light the headless figure facing them, with a gnawed crust of bread in one gloved hand and a chunk of cheese in the other.
-- Abruptly the figure sat down, and before any one could realise was was being done, the slippers, socks, and trousers had been kicked off under the table.
-- His figure inclined to embonpoint; his short limbs accentuated this inclination.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That black figure with its eyes of fire struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten horrors of child-hood came back to my mind.
-- An uncouth black figure of a man, a figure of no particular import, hung over the taffrail against the star-light, and I found Montgomery was speaking to me.
-- I saw the Ape-man's face shin-ing with perspiration; and my eyes being now accustomed to the darkness, I saw more distinctly the figure in the cor-ner from which the voice came.
-- Looking in the direction in which they faced, I saw coming through the haze under the trees beyond the end of the pas-sage of dens the dark figure and awful white face of Moreau.
-- Even the Ape-man lacked that inward sinuous curve of the back which makes the human figure so graceful.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His manly figure was adorned and enriched by a beautiful pair of donkey's ears.
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