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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This he opened and spread flat upon the table.
-- The telescope, a formidable instrument mounted upon a tripod, stood upon the flat leads of the house.
-- In the middle of the hut a flat stone served the purpose of a table, and upon this stood a small cloth bundle the same, no doubt, which I had seen through the telescope upon the shoulder of the boy.
-- Hol-mes struck the door just over the lock with the flat of his foot and it flew open.
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 gen-eral lived on the first floor or flat of the house, as modest alodging as his position permitted.
-- VIII he flat occupied by Gania and his family was on the Tthird floor of the house.
-- The flat was divided by a passage which led straight out of the entrance-hall.
-- 'General, you must take your pearls back, too give them to your wife here they are!Tomorrow I shall leave this flat altogether, and then there'll be no more of these pleasant little social gatherings, ladies and gentlemen.'
-- At last the door of old Mrs. Rogojin's flat was opened, and an aged servant appeared.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There he stood for a while with his head and shoulders bur-ied deep in the dust for he had fallen on sandy soil till his horses kicked him and laid him flat on the ground, as An-tilochus lashed them and drove them off to the host of the Achaeans.
-- Then Menelaus of the loud war-cry took Adrestus alive, for his horses ran into a tamarisk bush, as they were fly-ing wildly over the plain, and broke the pole from the car; they went on towards the city along with the others in full flight, but Adrestus rolled out, and fell in the dust flat on his face by the wheel of his chariot; Menelaus came up to him spear in hand, but Adrestus caught him by the knees begging for his life.
-- Diomed had taken the cuirass from off the breast of Agastrophus, his heavy helmet also, and the shield from off his shoulders, when Paris drew his bow and let fly an arrow that sped not from his hand in vain, but pierced the flat of Diomed's right foot, going right through it and fixing itself in the ground.
-- When he heard this Mars smote his two sturdy thighs with the flat of his hands, and said in anger, 'Do not blame me, you gods that dwell in heaven, if I go to the ships of the Achaeans and avenge the death of my son, even though it end in my being struck by Jove's lightning and lying in blood and dust among the corpses.'
-- When, however, he saw the Trojans swarming through the breach in the wall, while the Achaeans were clamouring and struck with panic, he cried aloud, and smote his two thighs with the flat of his hands.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The men aboard-ship, he told me, seemed at first just as strange to him as the Beast Men seemed to me, unnaturally long in the leg, flat in the face, prominent in the forehead, suspicious, danger-ous, and cold-hearted.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shere Khan's ears lay flat back on his head, and he shut his eyes, for the blazing branch was very near.
-- They clambered up the Council Rock together, and Mowgli spread the skin out on the flat stone where Akela used to sit, and pegged it down with four slivers of bamboo, and Akela lay down upon it, and called the old call to the Council, 'Look look well, O Wolves,' exactly as he had called when Mowgli was first brought there.
-- And just as he was going to roll the speaker over, a couple of black-haired men with flat red faces came from behind a sand dune, and Kotick, who had never seen a man before, coughed and low-ered his head.
-- He very much preferred the camp life, and hated those broad, flat roads, with the daily grubbing for grass in the forage reserve, and the long hours when there was nothing to do except to watch Kala Nag fidgeting in his pickets.
-- There are great cleared flat places hidden away in the forests that are called elephants' ball-rooms, but even these are only found by accident, and no man has ever seen the elephants dance.
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：
-- Just as Alice veiled her eyes in horror, under the impression that they were about to be swept within the vortex at the foot of the cataract, the canoe floated, stationary, at the side of a flat rock, that lay on a level with the water.
-- When they issued from the stunted woods which clung to the bar-ren sides of the mountain, upon a flat and mossy rock that formed its summit, they met the morning, as it came blush-ing above the green pines of a hill that lay on the opposite side of the valley of the Horican.
-- So soon as Un-cas was in possession of the reason why he was summoned, he threw himself flat on the turf; where, to the eyes of Dun-can, he appeared to lie quiet and motionless.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.
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