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：
-- Besides, a thick veil of fog, which, spread at his feet, prevented any distinct view of the valleys below.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, I have withdrawn the veil from your eyes, that you know gods and men apart.
-- Fierce Mars, to help the Trojans, covered them in a veil of darkness, and went about everywhere among them, inasmuch as Phoebus Apollo had told him that when he saw Pallas, Minerva leave the fray he was to put courage into the hearts of the Trojans for it was she who was helping the Danaans.
-- She put on the wondrous robe which Minerva had worked for her with consummate art, and had embroidered with manifold devices; she fastened it about her bosom with golden clasps, and she girded herself with a girdle that had a hundred tassels: then she fastened her earrings, three brilliant pendants that glistened most beautifully, through the pierced lobes of her ears, and threw a lovely new veil over her head.
-- Mi-nerva lifted the thick veil of darkness from their eyes, and much light fell upon them, alike on the side of the ships and on that where the fight was raging.
-- His mother tore her hair, and flung her veil from her with a loud cry as she looked upon her son.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then came something silent and quiet against my face, and across the Square fell a thin veil of slowly falling flakes of snow.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I fancied even then that he had a sneaking kindness for some of these metamorphosed brutes, a vicious sympa-thy with some of their ways, but that he attempted to veil it from me at first.
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：
-- At length the sun set in a flood of glory, behind the distant western hills, and as dark-ness drew its veil around the secluded spot the sounds of preparation diminished; the last light finally disappeared from the log cabin of some officer; the trees cast their deep-er shadows over the mounds and the rippling stream, and a silence soon pervaded the camp, as deep as that which reigned in the vast forest by which it was environed.
-- One, and she was the more juvenile in her appearance, though both were young, permitted glimpses of her dazzling complexion, fair golden hair, and bright blue eyes, to be caught, as she artlessly suffered the morn-ing air to blow aside the green veil which descended low from her beaver.
-- Though this sudden and startling movement of the Indian produced no sound from the other, in the surprise her veil also was allowed to open its folds, and betrayed an indescribable look of pity, admiration, and horror, as her dark eye followed the easy motions of the sav-age.
-- The sisters shuddered and clung closer to each other, while Heyward instinctively laid his hand on one of the pistols he had just drawn from their holsters, as he placed himself between his charge and those dense shad-ows that seemed to draw an impenetrable veil before the bosom of the forest.
-- asked Cora who stood drawing her veil about her person, with a calmness to which her agitated sister was a stranger.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now he saw what was under the veil of the charm that at first attracted him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even through the veil of my confusion the earth seemed very fair.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fog was rapidly dispersing; already the moon shone quite clear on the high ground on either side; and it was only in the exact bottom of the dell and round the tavern door that a thin veil still hung unbroken to conceal the first steps of our escape.
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：
-- On the left was a large landscape, a valley with collieries, and opposite hills with cornfields and woods, all blackened with distance, as if seen through a veil of crape.
-- There was a sudden foaming rush, and the bride like a sudden surf-rush, floating all white beside her father in the morning shadow of trees, her veil flowing with laughter.
-- The scream of the rabbit, after the violent tussle, seemed to have torn the veil of her consciousness.
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