skin是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 皮， 皮肤； 兽皮， 皮毛； 外皮， 外壳v. 剥皮，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One might have thought at first they were servants come to accompany their mis-tresses home; but on looking nearer, one soon saw they could scarcely be mere servants; their forms were too noble for that, their skin too fine, the cut of their dress too strik-ing.
-- Then she went to a cupboard, and drew out a large skin rolled up.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prince returned thinner, with the skin hanging in loose bags on his cheeks, but in the most cheerful frame of mind.
-- And he felt still more frightened when, kissing him, he felt with his lips the dryness of his brother's skin and saw close to him his big eyes, full of a strange light.
-- He made an effort at thought, and was aware that he was on the floor; and seeing blood on the tiger- skin rug and on his arm, he knew he had shot himself.
-- For a minute he was still, and with the same despondent face gazed at the baby; but all at once a smile, that moved his hair and the skin of his forehead, came out on his face, and he went as softly out of the room.
-- But Uncle Fokanitch" (so he called the old peasant Platon), "do you suppose he'd flay the skin off a man?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a slender boy, not very tall; his hair and restless eyes were black, his skin unusually white, and the contrast gave him an air of passionate variability.
-- The assistant held the guinea pig close; Gottlieb pinched up the skin of the belly and punctured it with a quick down thrust of the hypodermic needle.
-- He brusquely pinched up the skin of the upper arm and jabbed it with the needle of the syringe, cursing at them for jerking, never seeing their individual faces.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How somebody, lying in my bed, lay saying and doing all thisover again, at cross-purposes, in a feverish dream all night- the beda rocking sea that was never still!How, as that somebody slowlysettled down into myself, did I being to parch, and feel as if myouter covering of skin were a hard board; my tongue the bottom of 339an empty kettle, furred with long service, and burning up over aslow fire; the palms of my hands, hot plates of metal which no icecould cool!
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It was certainly never brilliant, but she would not allow it to have a sickly hue in general; and there was a softness and delicacy in her skin which gave peculiar elegance to the character of her face.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But that's only the skin of the woman, and these dandy cattle be as proud as a lucifer in their insides."
-- Well, a very good-hearted man were Farmer Everdene, and I being a respectable young fellow was allowed to call and see her and drink as much ale as I liked, but not to carry away any outside my skin I mane of course."
-- Gabriel had skinned the dead lamb, and was tying the skin over the body of the live lamb, in the customary manner, whilst Bathsheba was holding open a little pen of four hurdles, into which the mother and foisted lamb were driven, where they would remain till the old sheep conceived an affection for the young one.
-- Passing his hand over the sheep's left flank, and selecting the proper point, he punctured the skin and rumen with the lance as it stood in the tube; then he suddenly withdrew the lance, retaining the tube in its place.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beautiful!Great God!His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lus-trous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.
-- I attempted to accompany them and proceeded a short distance from the house, but my head whirled round, my steps were like those of a drunken man, I fell at last in a state of utter exhaustion; a film covered my eyes, and my skin was parched with the heat of fever.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Abovethem, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin that skin soprized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns.
-- The black bombazine, withits puffed sleeves and princess lace collar, set off her white skin superbly, but it did make her look a trifle elderly.
-- Frail, fine-boned, so white of skin that her flaming hair seemed to have drawn all thecolor from her face into its vital burnished mass, she was nevertheless possessed of exuberant health and untiringenergy.
-- Her gray organdie dress, with its cherry-colored satin sash, disguised with its billows and ruffles how childishlyundeveloped her body was, and the yellow hat with long cherry streamers made her creamy skin glow.
-- She felt that she could claw Melanie's ivory skin tillthe blood ran and take pleasure in doing it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My sister, Mrs. Joe, with black hair and eyes, had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap.
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