skeleton是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 骨骼, (建筑物、 计划的) 骨架, 纲要，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《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a skeleton covered with skin.
-- With inaudible steps she went quickly to the sick man's bedside, and going up so that he had not to turn his head, she immediately clasped in her fresh young hand the skeleton of his huge hand, pressed it, and began speaking with that soft eagerness, sympathetic and not jarring, which is peculiar to women.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From time to time they sped by some phantom-like tree, whose white skeleton twisted and rattled in the wind.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Against a brown plaster wall was a cabinet of zoological collections and medical curiosities, and beside it the most dreadful and fascinating object known to the boy-world of Elk Mills--a skeleton with one gaunt gold tooth.
-- They bought the skeleton gratefully, on the installment plan.
-- He examined her--his pudgy hands had the sensitiveness if not the precision of Gottlieb's skeleton fingers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was high-shouldered and bony; dressed indecent black, with a white wisp of a neckcloth; buttoned up to thethroat; and had a long, lank, skeleton hand, which particularlyattracted my attention, as he stood at the pony's head, rubbing hischin with it, and looked up at us in the chaise.
-- He was close beside me, when I walkedaway from the house, slowly fitting his long skeleton fingers intothe still longer fingers of a great Guy Fawkes pair of gloves.
-- He was standing close beside it, withone of his skeleton hands over his mouth, and the other resting onthe Doctor's table.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the outer margin of the Pit was an oval pond, and over it hung the attenuated skeleton of a chrome-yellow moon which had only a few days to last the morning star dogging her on the left hand.
-- Then it moved and began to bustle about vigorously from place to place, carrying square skeleton masses, which were riddled by the same rays.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once, I had been taken to one of our old marsh churches to see a skeleton in the ashes of a rich dress that had been dug out of a vault under the church pavement.
-- Now, waxwork and skeleton seemed to have dark eyes that moved and looked at me.
-- There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And your friend the secretary, humbly desiring to be heard again, in answer to what the treasurer had objected, concerning the great charge his majesty was at in maintaining you, said, that his excellency, who had the sole disposal of the em-peror's revenue, might easily provide against that evil, by gradually lessening your establishment; by which, for want of sufficient for you would grow weak and faint, and lose your appetite, and consequently, decay, and consume in a few months; neither would the stench of your carcass be then so dangerous, when it should become more than half diminished; and immediately upon your death five or six thousand of his majesty's subjects might, in two or three days, cut your flesh from your bones, take it away by cart-loads, and bury it in distant parts, to prevent infection, leaving the skeleton as a monument of admiration to pos-terity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first thing they saw on entering the town was the skeleton of Sleary's Circus.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I recollect once seeing in the great Museum of Hamburg the skeleton of one of these wonderful saurians.
-- "I have read everything in relation to the skeleton of Trapani, discovered in the fourteenth century, and which many persons chose to regard as that of Polyphemus, and the history of the giant dug up during the sixteenth century in the environs of Palmyra.
-- I have devoured all the treatises of Cassanion, and all those memoirs, pamphlets, speeches, and replies published in reference to the skeleton of Teutobochus, king of the Cimbri, the invader of Gaul, dug out of a gravel pit in Dauphine, in 1613.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Almost she could feel the skeleton clutching her and pressing her to its cage of ribs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its movables were ugly old chairs with worn-out seats, and ugly old chairs without any seats; a threadbare patternless carpet, a maimed table, a crippled wardrobe, a lean set of fire-irons like the skeleton of a set deceased, a washing-stand that looked as if it had stood for ages in a hail of dirty soapsuds, and a bedstead with four bare atomies of posts, each terminating in a spike, as if for the dismal accommodation of lodgers who might prefer to impale themselves.
-- When this spirited young man and his sister had begun systematically to produce the family skeleton for the overawing of the College, this narrative cannot precisely state.
-- It is certain that the more reduced and necessitous they were, the more pompously the skeleton emerged from its tomb; and that when there was anything particularly shabby in the wind, the skeleton always came out with the ghastliest flourish.
-- Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent as if the ghosts of former travellers overwhelmed by the snow haunted the scene of their distress.
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