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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The head was small and the body flattened, the legs were long and slender, the skin fine, and the hair the color of cafe au lait.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On his shoulders he bore the skin of a panther, his bow, and his sword, and he brandished two spears shod with bronze as a challenge to the bravest of the Achaeans to meet him in single fight.
-- She turned it from his skin as a mother whisks a fly from off her child when it is sleeping sweetly; she guided it to the part where the golden buckles of the belt that passed over his double cuirass were fastened, so the arrow struck the belt that went tightly round him.
-- It went right through this and through the cuirass of cunning workmanship; it also pierced the belt beneath it, which he wore next his skin to keep out darts or arrows; it was this that served him in the best stead, never-theless the arrow went through it and grazed the top of the skin, so that blood began flowing from the wound.
-- The point tore through the ambrosial robe which the Graces had woven for her, and pierced the skin between her wrist and the palm of her hand, so that the immortal blood, or ichor, that flows in the veins of the blessed gods, came pouring from the wound; for the gods do not eat bread nor drink wine, hence they have no blood such as ours, and are immortal.
-- The goddess went dazed and discomfited away, and Iris, fleet as the wind, drew her from the throng, in pain and with her fair skin all besmirched.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I set my teeth, though my skin was presently afire, all my body afire; but I lay there like grim death.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have given no small attention to that not unvexed subject, the skin of the whale.
-- The question is, what and where is the skin of the whale?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I bethought myself, however, that, perhaps the skin of him might, one way or other, be of some value to us; and I resolved to take off his skin if I could.
-- Immediately they fell to work with him; and though they had no knife, yet, with a sharpened piece of wood, they took off his skin as readily, and much more readily, than we could have done with a knife.
-- - This day went abroad with my gun and my dog, and killed a wild cat; her skin pretty soft, but her flesh good for nothing; every creature that I killed I took of the skins and preserved them.
-- How I could not have so much as got any food, except fish and turtles; and that, as it was long before I found any of them, I must have perished first; that I should have lived, if I had not perished, like a mere savage; that if I had killed a goat or a fowl, by any contrivance, I had no way to flay or open it, or part the flesh from the skin and the bowels, or to cut it up; but must gnaw it with my teeth, and pull it with my claws, like a beast.
-- I had a short jacket of goat's skin, the skirts coming down to about the middle of the thighs, and a pair of open-kneed breeches of the same; the breeches were made of the skin of an old he-goat, whose hair hung down such a length on either side that, like pantaloons, it reached to the middle of my legs; stockings and shoes I had none, but had made me a pair of somethings, I scarce knew what to call them, like buskins, to flap over my legs, and lace on either side like spatterdashes, but of a most barbarous shape, as indeed were all the rest of my clothes.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her skin was very brown, but, from its transparency, her complexion was uncommonly brilliant; her features were all good; her smile was sweet and attractive; and in her eyes, which were very dark, there was a life, a spirit, an eagerness, which could hardily be seen without delight.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jim told me to chop off the snake's head and throw it away, and then skin the body and roast a piece of it.
-- And he said that handling a snake- skin was such awful bad luck that maybe we hadn't got to the end of it yet.
-- We'd skin him if he done that!'
-- Then she grabbed up the basket and slammed it across the house and knocked the cat galley-west; and she said cle'r out and let her have some peace, and if we come bothering around her again betwixt that and dinner she'd skin us.
-- Don't tell ME, s'I; there WUZ help, s'I; 'n' ther' wuz a PLENTY help, too, s'I; ther's ben a DOZEN a-helpin' that nigger, 'n' I lay I'd skin every last nigger on this place but I'D find out who done it, s'I; 'n' moreover, s'I ' 'A DOZEN says you! FORTY couldn't a done every thing that's been done.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Green was the skin of his body, green were his eyes, green was the long, long beard that reached down to his feet.
-- The Donkey becomes lame and is sold to a man who wants to use his skin for a drumhead.
-- And his new master sat on the cliff waiting for him to drown, so as to skin him and make himself a drumhead.
-- If you ever need a skin for your drum, remember me."
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