phrase是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 短语， 词语， 习语，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：
-- It was quite possible that the three men had become separated long ago; but still this much was certain, that the Indians had spoken of a European that was in their power; and the date of the captivity, and even the descriptive phrase about the captive, evidently pointed to Harry Grant.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The phrase flattered the general, touched him, and pleased him mightily.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The phrase drifted loose in my mind for a moment, and then I saw it in red lettering on a little buff-coloured pamphlet, to read which made one shiver and creep.
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：
-- He will express a phrase in a word, and he will qualify the meaning of an entire sentence by a syllable; he will even convey dif-ferent significations by the simplest inflections of the voice.
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：
-- But I was overwhelmed with embarrassment when I said to the maid the phrase I had prepared, and while I waited for the answer in a dark passage I had to call up all my strength of mind not to bolt.
-- He had found, not himself, as the phrase goes, but a new soul with unsuspected powers.
-- I could have wished that Strickland had used some other phrase to indicate his refusal.
-- Strickland was not a conversationalist, and he had no gift for putting what he had to say in the striking phrase that the listener remembers.
-- To listen to him was, as the phrase goes, as good as a play; and much better than most.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dropping in at Mr Sampson Brass's office on the previous evening, in the absence of that gentleman and his learned sister, he had lighted upon Mr Swiveller, who chanced at the moment to be sprinkling a glass of warm gin and water on the dust of the law, and to be moistening his clay, as the phrase goes, rather copiously.
-- Well!In that place (which is the next room) there are decanters of wine, and all that sort of thing, set out as grand as if Kit and his friends were first-rate company; and there is little Jacob, walking, as the popular phrase is, into a home-made plum-cake, at a most surprising pace, and keeping his eye on the figs and oranges which are to follow, and making the best use of his time, you may believe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Strict people as the phrase is, professors of a stern religion, their very religion was a gloomy sacrifice of tastes and sympathies that were never their own, offered up as a part of a bargain for the security of their possessions.
-- That was how the phrase began to circulate, and what it meant; nothing more.'
-- 'Little Dorrit,' said Clennam; and the phrase had already begun, between these two, to stand for a hundred gentle phrases, according to the varying tone and connection in which it was used; 'do nothing.
-- The phrase would have given nobody mortal offence.
-- 'Therefore, madam,' said Mr Dorrit, 'I took the liberty' (he laid an emphasis on the phrase and repeated it, as though he stipulated, with urbane firmness, that he must not be contradicted again), 'I took the liberty of requesting this interview, in order that I might mention the topic to you, and inquire how you would advise me?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her friends repeated the pleasing phrase enthusiastically, and for several minutes she stood, like a jackdaw in the fable, enjoying her borrowed plumes, while the rest chattered like a party of magpies.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Childe Harold not unfrequently perches himself upon the mast-head of some luckless disappointed whale-ship, and in moody phrase ejaculates: "Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll!Ten thousand blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain."
-- Indeed, place this reversed skull (scaled down to the human magnitude) among a plate of men's skulls, and you would involuntarily confound it with them; and remarking the depressions on one part of its summit, in phrenological phrase you would say This man had no self-esteem, and no veneration.
-- The anatomical fact of this labyrinth is indisputable; and that the supposition founded upon it is reasonable and true, seems the more cogent to me, when I consider the otherwise inexplicable obstinacy of that leviathan in having his spoutings out, as the fishermen phrase it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Sowerberry was closeted with the board for five minutes; and it was arranged that Oliver should go to him that evening 'upon liking'--a phrase which means, in the case of a parish apprentice, that if the master find, upon a short trial, that he can get enough work out of a boy without putting too much food into him, he shall have him for a term of years, to do what he likes with.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I abhor every common-place phrase by which wit is intended; and 'setting one's cap at a man,' or 'making a conquest,' are the most odious of all.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The critic of the "Evening World," seeking as usual to establish a catch phrase which should "go" with the town, wound up by advising: "If you wish to be merry, see Carrie frown."
-- It was only a shimmering, glittering phrase in which lay a world of possibilities.
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