flat是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 平坦的， 扁平的， 平淡的n. 一套房间； 平面，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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I donno t'night,' said he, lifting off his hat, and smoothing his thin hair with the flat of his hand.
-- 'Tom Gradgrind,' replied Bounderby, knocking the flat of his hand several times with great vehemence on the table, 'I speak of a very special messenger that has come to me, in reference to Louisa.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as we passed through a flat though fertile country, this occupation was slightly monotonous.
-- The town lies on a flat and marshy plain, between two hills.
-- The fish had a flat head, round body, and the lower extremities covered with bony scales; its mouth was wholly without teeth, the pectoral fins, which were highly developed, sprouted direct from the body, which properly speaking had no tail.
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：
-- Miss Chatterley, still disgusted at her brother's defection, had departed and was living in a little flat in London.
-- She was not a 'little pilchard sort of fish', like a boy, with a boy's flat breast and little buttocks.
-- Up the drive she came, tooting up the incline, then sweeping round the oval of grass, where the two great wild beech-trees stood, on the flat in front of the house.
-- A terrible, seething welter of ugly life it seemed: not at all the flat drabness it looked from out-side.
-- Yellow celandines now were in crowds, flat open, pressed back in urgency, and the yellow glitter of themselves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He resumed this occupation when he was replete with beef, had sucked up all the gravy in the baking-dish with the flat of his knife, and had drawn liberally on a barrel of small beer in the scullery.
-- 'Mr Clennam,' returned the other, rising, taking his cap off in the flat of his hand, and so holding it, ready to put on again, 'you do me honour.
-- He had a superior eye-glass dangling round his neck, but unfortunately had such flat orbits to his eyes and such limp little eyelids that it wouldn't stick in when he put it up, but kept tumbling out against his waistcoat buttons with a click that discomposed him very much.
-- The flat expanse of country about Chalons lay a long heavy streak, occasionally made a little ragged by a row of poplar trees against the wrathful sunset.
-- When the sun had raised his full disc above the flat line of the horizon, and was striking fire out of the long muddy vista of paved road with its weary avenue of little trees, a black speck moved along the road and splashed among the flaming pools of rain-water, which black speck was John Baptist Cavalletto running away from his patron.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never saw anyone faint, and I don't choose to make myself all black and blue, tumbling flat as you do.
-- Hugo, getting thirsty after a long warble, drinks it, loses his wits, and after a good deal of clutching and stamping, falls flat and dies, while Hagar informs him what she has done in a song of exquisite power and melody.
-- When I think of this deggerredation, I fell that I can bear even my flat nose and purple gown with yellow skyrockets on it.'
-- But Amy had not forgotten Miss Snow's cutting remarks about 'some persons whose noses were not too flat to smell other people's limes, and stuck-up people who were not too proud to ask for them', and she instantly crushed 'that Snow girl's' hopes by the withering telegram, 'You needn't be so polite all of a sudden, for you won't get any.'
-- 'I've made such quantities it would be hard to choose which I'd have,' said Laurie, lying flat and throwing cones at the squirrel who had betrayed him.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whereupon planting his feet firmly against two opposite planks of the boat, the gigantic negro, stooping a little, presented his flat palm to Flask's foot, and then putting Flask's hand on his hearse-plumed head and bidding him spring as he himself should toss, with one dexterous fling landed the little man high and dry on his shoulders.
-- The compact round body of its root expands into two broad, firm, flat palms or flukes, gradually shoaling away to less than an inch in thickness.
-- Flat obedience to thy own flat commands, this is all thou breathest.
-- Some fell flat upon their faces.
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