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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My back had now become very stiff and sore, my tonsils were painful from the cabman's fingers, and the skin of my neck had been scratched by his nails; my feet hurt exceedingly and I was lame from a little cut on one foot.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a pow-erfully-built man, as I have said, with a fine forehead and rather heavy features; but his eyes had that odd drooping of the skin above the lids which often comes with advancing years, and the fall of his heavy mouth at the corners gave him an expression of pugnacious resolution.
-- You have heard, perhaps, of a common surgical operation resorted to in cases where the nose has been destroyed: a flap of skin is cut from the forehead, turned down on the nose, and heals in the new position.
-- The grafting of skin and bone is done to facili-tate healing: the surgeon places in the middle of the wound pieces of skin snipped from another animal, or fragments of bone from a victim freshly killed.
-- That servant of mine I showed him how to skin and cook a rabbit.
-- I was lying in the shade of the enclosure wall, staring out to sea, when I was startled by something cold touching the skin of my heel, and starting round found the little pink sloth-creature blinking into my face.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A Wolf accustomed to moving his own cubs can, if neces-sary, mouth an egg without breaking it, and though Father Wolf's jaws closed right on the child's back not a tooth even scratched the skin as he laid it down among the cubs.
-- But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.
-- The answer was a perfectly indescribable hiss, and Mow-gli kicked up his feet behind, clapped his hands together to applaud himself, and jumped on to Bagheera's back, where he sat sideways, drumming with his heels on the glossy skin and making the worst faces he could think of at Baloo.
-- A boy trained among men would never have dreamed of skinning a ten-foot tiger alone, but Mowgli knew bet-ter than anyone else how an animal's skin is fitted on, and how it can be taken off.
-- 'To think that thou canst skin a tiger!Where did the buffaloes kill him?
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：
-- 'Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?'
-- While one of these loiterers showed the red skin and wild accouterments of a native of the woods, the other exhibited, through the mask of his rude and nearly savage equipments, the brighter, though sun-burned and long-faced com-plexion of one who might claim descent from a European parentage.
-- There's fresh sassafras boughs for the ladies to sit on, which may not be as proud as their my-hog-guinea chairs, but which sends up a sweeter flavor, than the skin of any hog can do, be it of Guinea, or be it of any other land.
-- exclaimed the obdurate Hawkeye; 'his death is certain, and we have no powder to spare, for Indian fights sometimes last for days; 'tis their scalps or ours!and God, who made us, has put into our natures the craving to keep the skin on the head.'
-- He was without his favorite weapon, and his arms were even bound behind him with thongs, made of the skin of a deer.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a kind and thankful creature, whose heart dilat-ed in proportion as his skin was filled with good cheer, and whose spirits rose with eating, as some men's do with drink.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her skin was rather sallow.
-- He was nothing but skin and bone.
-- It was awful to see her lovely skin all wounded.
-- Her plain face with its narrow lips was tight, her skin was stretched tightly over her bones, her smile was tight, her hair was tight, her clothes were tight, and the white drill she wore had all the effect of black bombazine.
-- When I was building my house in the Paumotus I had slept out for weeks on a harder bed than that, with nothing to shelter me but wild shrubs; and as for vermin, my tough skin should be proof against their malice.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were tragopans, ornamented by a pendant skin which hangs over their throats, and by two small, round horns, planted behind the eyes.
-- As it was useless to burden themselves with the weight of both the animals, Neb and Pencroft resolved to skin them on the spot, while Cyrus Harding and the reporter continued to explore the islet.
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