veil是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 面纱， 遮蔽物v. 用面纱掩盖， 掩饰，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：
-- The appearance of the island through the thick veil of rain was mournful in the extreme.
-- The cloudy sky only allowed the heat to reach the ground through a close veil of mist.
-- It seemed as if he sought to question the voiceless waters; he longed to tear away the veil of fog and vapor that obscured his view.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Since the Pegler affair, this gentlewoman had covered her pity for Mr. Bounderby with a veil of quiet melancholy and contrition.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You said, sir--" "Yes, yes, all is clear, I see the link in the chain; everything is explained, and I now understand why Arne Saknussemm, put out of court, forced to hide his magnificent discoveries, was compelled to conceal beneath the veil of an incomprehensible cryptograph, the secret--" "What secret?"
-- This opaque veil standing up between us and the sun projected a deep shadow on the flanks of the mountain.
-- I sought, amid the awful stillness, to penetrate through the distant fog, to tear down the veil which concealed the mysterious distance.
-- But before this wilderness of waters reached us, the mighty veil of cloud was torn in twain; the sea began to foam wildly; and the electricity, produced by some vast and extraordinary chemical action in the upper layer of cloud, is brought into play.
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：
-- The drizzle of rain was like a veil over the world, myste-rious, hushed, not cold.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shadow in which she sat, falling like a gloomy veil across her forehead, accorded very well with the character of her beauty.
-- 'I will draw a veil over that dreamy life, Mr F. was in good spirits his appetite was good he liked the cookery he considered the wine weak but palatable and all was well, we returned to the immediate neighbourhood of Number Thirty Little Gosling Street London Docks and settled down, ere we had yet fully detected the housemaid in selling the feathers out of the spare bed Gout flying upwards soared with Mr F. to another sphere.'
-- It was very curious to see them standing together: the girl with her disengaged fingers plaiting the bosom of her dress, half irresolutely, half passionately; Miss Wade with her composed face attentively regarding her, and suggesting to an observer, with extraordinary force, in her composure itself (as a veil will suggest the form it covers), the unquenchable passion of her own nature.
-- Flora, putting aside her veil with a bashful tremor upon her, proceeded to introduce herself.
-- The gentleman of military exterior had so imperfectly awakened Clennam's curiosity, in the existing state of his mind, that a half-forgetfulness of such a visitor's having been referred to, was already creeping over it as a part of the sombre veil which almost always dimmed it now, when a heavy footstep on the stairs aroused him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Don't use such dreadful expressions,' replied Meg from the depths of the veil in which she had shrouded herself like a nun sick of the world.
-- At the top of these steps he came plump upon a sight that took his breath away and chilled his blood...' 'A tall figure, all in white with a veil over its face and a lamp in its wasted hand,' went on Meg.
-- Shrouded in a thick veil and armed with a genteel trav-eling basket, she departed, feeling that a cool drive would soothe her ruffled spirit and fit her for the labors of the day.
-- As the omnibus contained only one other passenger, a sleepy old lady, Amy pocketed her veil and beguiled the te-dium of the way by trying to find out where all her money had gone to.
-- Jo felt as if a veil had fallen between her heart and Beth's, but when she put out her hand to lift it up, there seemed something sacred in the silence, and she waited for Beth to speak.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Impenetrable veil covering our knowledge of the cetacea."
-- But not yet have we solved the incantation of this whiteness, and learned why it appeals with such power to the soul; and more strange and far more portentous why, as we have seen, it is at once the most meaning symbol of spiritual things, nay, the very veil of the Christian's Deity; and yet should be as it is, the intensifying agent in things the most appalling to mankind.
-- Soon we were running through a suffusing wide veil of mist; neither ship nor boat to be seen.
-- What befell the weakling youth lifting the dread goddess's veil at Lais?
-- Shrouded in a thin drooping veil of mist, it hovered for a moment in the rainbowed air; and then fell swamping back into the deep.
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