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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neb and Pencroft skinned them, and only brought back to Granite House their fat and skin, this skin being intended for the manufacture of boots.
-- Neb and Harding also ran up, and they remained for some instants contemplating the animal as it lay stretched on the ground, thinking that its magnificent skin would be a great ornament to the hall at Granite House.
-- The one which had been seized in the hall of Granite House was a great fellow, six feet high, with an admirably poportioned frame, a broad chest, head of a moderate size, the facial angle reaching sixty-five degrees, round skull, projecting nose, skin covered with soft glossy hair, in short, a fine specimen of the anthropoids.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor had she, like many persons of great intellect, confined herself to theory, or stopped short where practical usefulness begins; inasmuch as she could ingross, fair-copy, fill up printed forms with perfect accuracy, and, in short, transact any ordinary duty of the office down to pouncing a skin of parchment or mending a pen.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The skin on the surface of the body rose in bubbles of various sizes, and in places hung in patches.
-- The skin covering of the skull easily detached, and no hemorrhage was noticeable.
-- She was a tall, strong woman, with a frowning, gloomy face, all wrinkled, a bag of skin hanging under her chin, a short braid of light hair, turning gray at the temples, and a hairy wart on her cheek.
-- Simonson, in rubber jacket and similar galoshes, bound with whip-cord over woolen socks (he was a vegetarian and did not use the skin of animals), was also awaiting the departure of the party.
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 neighbourhood, to our ears, seemed haunted by approaching footsteps; and what between the dead body of the captain on the parlour floor and the thought of that detestable blind beggar hovering near at hand and ready to return, there were moments when, as the saying goes, I jumped in my skin for terror.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Only I soon found out why my harpoon had not entered its skin and was blunted."
-- Some had not then attained a sufficient degree of maturity; and their thick skin covered a white but rather fibrous pulp.
-- I should say that, in the water, which is their element the spine of these creatures is flexible; with smooth and close skin and webbed feet they swim admirably.
-- Our arms ached, the skin was torn off our hands.
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：
-- There's a certain smell about the skin of those women, that in the end is sickening beyond words even if you like it at first."
-- He thought of Ursula, how sensitive and delicate she really was, her skin so over-fine, as if one skin were wanting.
-- But her skin was clear and fine, her hands, as she sat with them forgotten and folded, were quite beautiful, full of potential energy.
-- He was a Tyrolese, broad, rather flat-cheeked, with a pale, pock-marked skin and flourishing moustaches.
-- It hurts my skin and my soul."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Hindley, pulling me back by the skin of my neck, like a dog.
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