sheet是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 被单, 薄板,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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These refugeescried out to see Pennsylvania one solid sheet of flame, and even the gentlest of old ladies wore expressions of grimpleasure.
-- Prissy was crouchedin a corner, sweating too, and smelled so abominably Scarlett would have sent her from the room had she not fearedthe girl would take to her heels if once out of sight Melanie lay on the bed on a sheet dark with perspiration andsplotched with dampness where Scarlett had spilled water.
-- Melanie lay quietly with the sheet up to her chin.
-- "I'll try not to hurt you," he said quietly, tucking the sheet about her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I would then take a sheet of paper, and write across the top of it, in a neat hand, the heading, "Memorandum of Pip's debts"; with Barnard's Inn and the date very carefully added.
-- Herbert would also take a sheet of paper, and write across it with similar formalities, "Memorandum of Herbert's debts."
-- Though every vestige of her dress was burnt, as they told me, she still had something of her old ghastly bridal appearance; for, they had covered her to the throat with white cotton-wool, and as she lay with a white sheet loosely overlying that, the phantom air of something that had been and was changed was still upon her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It rained now, in a sheet of water.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- How was it that I was able to look upon that vast sheet of water instead of being plunged in utter darkness?
-- A mast, made of two pieces of wood fastened together, to give additional strength, a yard made from another one, the sail a linen sheet from our bed.
-- Did Saknussemm ever fall in with this great sheet of water?
-- I threatened in my terror to cut the sheet of the sail.
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:
-- He took the old sheet and rubbed her down, she standing like a child.
-- But now the sheet was all wet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mrs Flintwinch went on to spread the upper sheet over the bed, and the blanket over that, and the counterpane over that, as if she had quite concluded her story.
-- Even then he could not see his face, for he had drawn the sheet over it.
-- Lying in it, as in a grave or sarcophagus, with a hurried drapery of sheet and blanket thrown across it, was the body of a heavily-made man, with an obtuse head, and coarse, mean, common features.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Give my dearest love to Father, and believe me, ever your own... MEG This note, prettily written on scented paper, was a great contrast to the next, which was scribbled on a big sheet of thin foreign paper, ornamented with blots and all manner of flourishes and curly-tailed letters.
-- It was past two, when Jo, who stood at the window think-ing how dreary the world looked in its winding sheet of snow, heard a movement by the bed, and turning quickly, saw Meg kneeling before their mother's easy chair with her face hidden.
-- Jo glanced at the sheet and saw a pleasing illustration composed of a lunatic, a corpse, a villian, and a viper.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Give way, men," whispered Starbuck, drawing still further aft the sheet of his sail; "there is time to kill a fish yet before the squall comes.
-- As devout Eckerman lifted the linen sheet from the naked corpse of Goethe, he was overwhelmed with the massive chest of the man, that seemed as a Roman triumphal arch.
-- With his gaff, the gaffman hooks on to a sheet of blubber, and strives to hold it from slipping, as the ship pitches and lurches about.
-- Meanwhile, the spade-man stands on the sheet itself, perpendicularly chopping it into the portable horse-pieces.
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