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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was disgusted with that self-confident, vulgar, liberal tone of Kolosoff, the bull- like, sensual, figure of old Korchagin, the French phrases of the Slavophile maiden, the ceremonious faces of the governess and the tutor.
-- While listening to him, Nekhludoff examined the low cot, with its straw mattress, the window, with its thick iron bars, the damp, plastered walls, the pitiful face and the figure of the unfortunate, mutilated peasant in bast shoes and prison coat, and he became sad; he would not believe that what this kind-hearted man told him was true.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You know how on a flat surface, which has only two dimensions, we can represent a figure of a three-dimensional solid, and similarly they think that by models of three dimensions they could represent one of four if they could master the perspective of the thing.
-- As the columns of hail grew thinner, I saw the white figure more distinctly.
-- At once a quaintly pretty little figure in chequered purple and white followed my gesture, and then astonished me by imitating the sound of thunder.
-- Here and there rose a white or silvery figure in the waste garden of the earth, here and there came the sharp vertical line of some cupola or obelisk.
-- Then my eye travelled along to the figure of the White Sphinx upon the pedestal of bronze, growing distinct as the light of the rising moon grew brighter.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Humpty Dumpty was sitting with his legs crossed, like a Turk, on the top of a high wall such a narrow one that Alice quite wondered how he could keep his balance and, as his eyes were steadily fixed in the opposite direction, and he didn't take the least notice of her, she thought he must be a stuffed figure after all.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My eyes turned instinctively in that direction, and I saw a figure leap with great rapidity behind the trunk of a pine.
-- Instantly the figure reappeared, and making a wide circuit, began to head me off.
-- I could just make out that he had a book as well as a knife in his hand, and was still wondering how anything so incongruous had come in their possession when the kneeling figure rose once more to his feet and the whole party began to move together towards the house.
-- As we passed the two-pointed hill, we could see the black mouth of Ben Gunn's cave and a figure standing by it, leaning on a musket.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I can understand perfectly, sir, that your nets furnish excellent fish for your table; I can understand also that you hunt aquatic game in your submarine forests; but I cannot understand at all how a particle of meat, no matter how small, can figure in your bill of fare."
-- Before my eyes was a horrible monster worthy to figure in the legends of the marvellous.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then Ursula noticed again the dark, rather stooping figure of Mr Crich, waiting suspended on the path, watching with expressionless face the flight to the church.
-- It was over, and he turned round to look behind him, at the figure of Rupert Birkin, who at once came forward and joined him.
-- His figure was narrow but nicely made.
-- Make a pictorial record of the fact, as a child does when drawing a face two eyes, one nose, mouth with teeth so " And he drew a figure on the blackboard.
-- She was a strange figure in the class-room, wearing a large, old cloak of greenish cloth, on which was a raised pattern of dull gold.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her position before was sheltered from the light; now, I had a distinct view of her whole figure and countenance.
-- The long light hair curled slightly on the temples; the eyes were large and serious; the figure almost too graceful.
-- A miser who has parted with a lucky lottery ticket for five shillings, and finds next day he has lost in the bargain five thousand pounds, could not show a blanker countenance than he did on beholding the figure of Mr. Earnshaw above.
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