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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Glenarvan, McNabbs, Robert, Austin, and the two sailors, had just time to throw themselves flat on the ground before they swept past like a whirlwind, only a few paces distant.
-- Glenarvan flung himself on the corpse, and dragging it from the condor's grasp, placed it flat on the grass, and knelt down and put his ear to the heart.
-- In a few seconds it lay flat on the ground.
-- About four o'clock in the evening a hill, which seemed a mountain in so flat a country, was sighted in the distance.
-- There was the same grassy flat soil, the same sharply-defined horizon against the sky.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There seemed to be some very minute inscription on it; for the Jew laid it flat upon the table, and shading it with his hand, pored over it, long and earnestly.
-- With this irrepressible ebullition of mirth, Master Bates laid himself flat on the floor: and kicked convulsively for five minutes, in an ectasy of facetious joy.
-- A large flat box was fetched out of the gig; and a bedroom bell was rung very often; and the servants ran up and down stairs perpetually; from which tokens it was justly concluded that something important was going on above.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I am afraid you are giving it a turn which that gentleman did by no means intend; for he would certainly think better of me, if under such a cir-cumstance I were to give a flat denial, and ride off as fast as I could.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All that I could do was to wait till the tide was at the highest, keeping the raft with my oar like an anchor, to hold the side of it fast to the shore, near a flat piece of ground, which I expected the water would flow over; and so it did.
-- As soon as I found water enough - for my raft drew about a foot of water - I thrust her upon that flat piece of ground, and there fastened or moored her, by stick-ing my two broken oars into the ground, one on one side near one end, and one on the other side near the other end; and thus I lay till the water ebbed away, and left my raft and all my cargo safe on shore.
-- On the flat of the green, just before this hollow place, I resolved to pitch my tent.
-- For example, if I wanted a board, I had no other way but to cut down a tree, set it on an edge before me, and hew it flat on either side with my axe, till I brought it to be thin as a plank, and then dub it smooth with my adze.
-- I could have shot as many as I pleased, but was very spar-ing of my powder and shot, and therefore had more mind to kill a she-goat if I could, which I could better feed on; and though there were many goats here, more than on my side the island, yet it was with much more difficulty that I could come near them, the country being flat and even, and they saw me much sooner than when I was on the hills.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could have understood the meaning of a little stone-cutter's yard at Columbia City, carving little pieces of marble for individual use, but when the yards of some huge stone corporation came into view, filled with spur tracks and flat cars, transpierced by docks from the river and traversed overhead by immense trundling cranes of wood and steel, it lost all significance in her little world.
-- Her sister's flat was clean.
-- Chapter VI THE MACHINE AND THE MAIDEN--A KNIGHT OF TO-DAY At the flat that evening Carrie felt a new phase of its atmosphere.
-- The first floor of the building, of which Hanson's flat was the third, was occupied by a bakery, and to this, while she was standing there, Hanson came down to buy a loaf of bread.
-- That night at the flat she was even more lonely--the dull situation was becoming harder to endure.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The door of the cavern was big enough to roll a hogshead in, and on one side of the door the floor stuck out a little bit, and was flat and a good place to build a fire on.
-- We come to a little flat piece of land which was dry and very thick with trees and bushes and vines, and he says: 'You shove right in dah jist a few steps, Mars Jawge; dah's whah dey is.
-- Store tobacco is flat black plug, but these fellows mostly chaws the natural leaf twisted.
-- again, and fell down flat on his back.
-- So when we see the raft was gone and we flat broke, there warn't any-thing for it but to try the Royal Nonesuch another shake.
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