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。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While the common herd stood aloof, in deference to the quarters of Webb, the figure we have described stalked into the center of the domestics, freely expressing his censures or commendations on the merits of the horses, as by chance they displeased or satisfied his judgment.
-- Receiving no reply to this extraordinary appeal, which in truth, as it was delivered with the vigor of full and so-norous tones, merited some sort of notice, he who had thus sung forth the language of the holy book turned to the si-lent figure to whom he had unwittingly addressed himself, and found a new and more powerful subject of admiration in the object that encountered his gaze.
-- A gleam of exultation shot across the darkly-painted lineaments of the inhabitant of the forest, as he traced the route of his intended victims, who rode unconsciously onward, the light and graceful forms of the females waving among the trees, in the cur-vatures of their path, followed at each bend by the manly figure of Heyward, until, finally, the shapeless person of the singing master was concealed behind the numberless trunks of trees, that rose, in dark lines, in the intermedi-ate space.
-- The travelers anxiously regarded the upright, flexible figure of the young Mohican, graceful and unrestrained in the at-titudes and movements of nature.
-- A spectral-looking figure stalked from out of the dark-ness behind the scout, and seizing a blazing brand, held it toward the further extremity of their place of retreat.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchant-ed region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horse-back, without a head.
-- How he would figure among them in the churchyard, between services on Sundays; gathering grapes for them from the wild vines that overran the surrounding trees; reciting for their amusement all the epitaphs on the tomb-stones; or sauntering, with a whole bevy of them, along the banks of the adjacent mill-pond; while the more bashful country bumpkins hung sheepishly back, envying his supe-rior elegance and address.
-- Ichabod was a suitable figure for such a steed .
-- On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow-traveller in relief against the sky, gigantic in height, and muffled in a cloak, Ichabod was horror-struck on per-ceiving that he was headless!but his horror was still more increased on observing that the head, which should have rested on his shoulders, was carried before him on the pom-mel of his saddle!His terror rose to desperation; he rained a shower of kicks and blows upon Gunpowder, hoping by a sudden movement to give his companion the slip; but the spectre started full jump with him.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some of them were dressed fashionably, and they said they couldn't for the life of them see why you should be dowdy just because you had written a novel; if you had a neat figure you might as well make the most of it, and a smart shoe on a small foot had never prevented an editor from taking your "stuff."
-- She was rather tall, and her gray dress, simple and quite well-cut, did not hide the fact that her figure was beautiful.
-- It was a figure that might have appealed more to the sculptor than to the costumier.
-- It was lamentable that one was more amused by the ridiculous figure cut by the Dutchman than outraged by Strickland's brutal treatment of him.
-- Strickland was a weird figure as he lay there, thinner than ever, with his ragged red beard and his eyes staring feverishly into vacancy; his illness seemed to have made them larger, and they had an unnatural brightness.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All at once the tall figure of the sailor appeared.
-- His figure was forming and becoming more manly, and he promised to be an accomplished man, physically as well as morally.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I cannot describe how much I was impressed by this appeal and the energy with which it was made, which brought a tear into the child's clear eye, and made her slight figure tremble as she looked up into my face.
-- It was an old man with long grey hair, whose face and figure as he held the light above his head and looked before him as he approached, I could plainly see.
-- From him I looked back to the slight gentle figure of the child.
-- The obscurity of the night favoured his disappearance, and his figure was soon beyond my sight.
-- At length there sauntered up, on the opposite side of the way with a bad pretense of passing by accident a figure conspicuous for its dirty smartness, which after a great many frowns and jerks of the head, in resistance of the invitation, ultimately crossed the road and was brought into the shop.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed to Nekhludoff, when he looked at her erect figure in the white dress with little folds at the waist, and by the expression of her happy face, that the very thing that filled his soul with song, also filled hers.
-- "It must have been the size of a large cucumber," he added, evidently amused by the giant figure of the merchant, as he imagined him.
-- Although Nekhludoff had often dined with and knew Korchagin well, this evening his old face, his sensual, smacking lips, the napkin stuck under his vest, the fat neck, and especially the well-fed, military figure made an unpleasant impression on him.
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