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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A skeleton with a tangle of brown hair adhering to it lay among the debris.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Listen, Mr. Terentieff,' said Ptitsin, who had bidden the prince good-night, and was now holding out his hand to Hippolyte; 'I think you remark in that manuscript of yours, that you bequeath your skeleton to the Academy.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Silver!A diamond box would neither absorb much of the light nor reflect much from the general surface, but just here and there where the surfaces were favourable the light would be reflected and refracted, so that you would get a brilliant appearance of flashing reflections and translucencies a sort of skeleton of light.
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 husbandman shrank back from the dangerous passes, within the safer boundaries of the more ancient set-tlements, armies larger than those that had often disposed of the scepters of the mother countries, were seen to bury themselves in these forests, whence they rarely returned but in skeleton bands, that were haggard with care or dejected by defeat.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Further in the gallery was the huge skeleton barrel of a Brontosaurus.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Skeleton Island E.S.E.
-- "Yes, sir; Skeleton Island they calls it.
-- We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind, and the boats had to be got out and manned, and the ship warped three or four miles round the corner of the island and up the narrow passage to the haven behind Skeleton Island.
-- We brought up just where the anchor was in the chart, about a third of a mile from each shore, the mainland on one side and Skeleton Island on the other.
-- I was pretty far down on the low, sandy spit that encloses the anchorage to the east, and is joined at half-water to Skeleton Island; and now, as I rose to my feet, I saw, some distance further down the spit and rising from among low bushes, an isolated rock, pretty high, and peculiarly white in colour.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This skeleton of what it had once been was a sad spectacle as it lay lost under the waves, but sadder still was the sight of the bridge, where some corpses, bound with ropes, were still lying.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And even after that, when the convent was gone and some light morning clouds veiled the pass below it, the ghastly skeleton arms by the wayside seemed to be all pointing up at him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After studying himself to a skeleton all the week, a fellow deserves petting and ought to get it.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though at the time I but ill comprehended not a few of his words, yet subsequent disclosures, when I had become more familiar with his broken phraseology, now enable me to present the whole story such as it may prove in the mere skeleton I give.
-- I am told, on good authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commodore Davis of the British navy found the skeleton of a sperm whale.
-- As if the waves had been fullers, this craft was bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus.
-- But it may be fancied, that from the naked skeleton of the stranded whale, accurate hints may be derived touching his true form.
-- For it is one of the more curious things about this Leviathan, that his skeleton gives very little idea of his general shape.
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