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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose had shrunk to skin and bone.
-- "I am yellow skin and bone."
-- Now, Mr. Jaggers showed that she had struggled through a great lot of brambles which were not as high as her face; but which she could not have got through and kept her hands out of; and bits of those brambles were actually found in her skin and put in evidence, as well as the fact that the brambles in question were found on examination to have been broken through, and to have little shreds of her dress and little spots of blood upon them here and there.
-- "Little more than skin and bone!"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 120 Grimms' Fairy Tales So now the bird set the table, and the mouse looked after the food and, wishing to prepare it in the same way as the sausage, by rolling in and out among the vegetables to salt and butter them, she jumped into the pot; but she stopped short long before she reached the bottom, having already parted not only with her skin and hair, but also with life.
-- The huntsman drew offthe wolf's skin and went home with it; the grandmother ate the cake and drank the wine which Red-Cap had brought, 130 Grimms' Fairy Talesand revived, but Red-Cap thought to herself: 'As long as I live, I will never by myself leave the path, to run into the wood, when my mother has forbidden me to do so.'
-- They salted the flesh, and the peasant went into the town and wanted to sell the skin there, so that he might buy a new calf with the proceeds.
-- The peasant ate it, and lay down with his skin beside him, and the woman thought: 'He is tired and has gone to sleep.'
-- After this the miller saw the skin in which the raven was, lying on the ground, and asked: 'What have you there?'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew not what could be the use of those several clefts and divisions in my feet behind; that these were too soft to bear the hardness and sharpness of stones, without a covering made from the skin of some other brute; that my whole body wanted a fence against heat and cold, which I was forced to put on and off every day, with tediousness and trouble: and lastly, that he observed every animal in this country naturally to abhor the Yahoos, whom the weaker avoided, and the stronger drove from them.
-- When my clothes were worn to rags, I made myself others with the skins of rabbits, and of a certain beautiful animal, about the same size, called nnuh-noh, the skin of which is covered with a fine down.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His skin was so unwholesomely deficient in the natural tinge, that he looked as though, if he were cut, he would bleed white.
-- A man with a great puffed head and forehead, swelled veins in his temples, and such a strained skin to his face that it seemed to hold his eyes open, and lift his eyebrows up.
-- said Mr. Bounderby, 'if she takes it in the fainting way, I'll have the skin off her nose, at all events!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hans, who was a man who never forgot even the minutest precautions, had added to our baggage a large skin full of water, as an addition to our gourds.
-- The skin was torn from the flesh.
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：
-- Her skin was faintly tawny, her limbs had a certain stillness, her body should have had a full, down-slipping richness; but it lacked something.
-- he said, as his finger ca-ressed the delicate, warm, secret skin of her waist and hips.
-- 'Yes, they've sat themselves to skin and bone,' he said.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo had burned the skin off her nose boating, and got a rag-ing headache by reading too long.
-- Now a bag of remarkable clothespins, next, a wonderful nutmeg grater which fell to pieces at the first trial, a knife cleaner that spoiled all the knives, or a sweeper that picked the nap neatly off the carpet and left the dirt, labor-saving soap that took the skin off one's hands, infallible cements which stuck firmly to nothing but the fingers of the deluded buyer, and every kind of tinware, from a toy savings bank for odd pennies, to a wonderful boiler which would wash articles in its own steam with every prospect of exploding in the process.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come, and to endure always, as now; for be it Polar snow or torrid sun, like a patent chronometer, his interior vitality was warranted to do well in all climates.
-- To be sure, in cold weather you may carry your house aloft with you, in the shape of a watch-coat; but properly speaking the thickest watch-coat is no more of a house than the unclad body; for as the soul is glued inside of its fleshy tabernacle, and cannot freely move about in it, nor even move out of it, without running great risk of perishing (like an ignorant pilgrim crossing the snowy Alps in winter); so a watch-coat is not so much of a house as it is a mere envelope, or additional skin encasing you.
-- Skin your eyes for him, men; look sharp for white water; if ye see but a bubble, sing out."
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