sharp是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 锋利的； 轮廓分明的； 急转的ad. (指时刻) 正，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh!But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, Scrooge!a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; se-cret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
-- Let's have the shutters up,' cried old Fezziwig, with a sharp clap of his hands,' before a man can say Jack Robinson.'
-- But, finding that he turned uncomfortably cold when he began to wonder which of his curtains this new spectre would draw back, he put them every one aside with his own hands, and lying down again, established a sharp look-out all round the bed.
-- Likewise at the game of How, When, and Where, she was very great, and to the secret joy of Scrooge's nephew, beat her sisters hollow: though they were sharp girls too, as could have told you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing was represented in a flourishing condition, save tools and weapons; but, the cutler's knives and axes were sharp and bright, the smith's hammers were heavy, and the gunmaker's stock was mur-derous.
-- 'Do you know, Sydney,' said Mr. Stryver, looking at him with sharp eyes, and slowly drawing a hand across his florid face: 'do you know, I rather thought, at the time, that you sympathised with the golden-haired doll, and were quick to see what happened to the golden-haired doll?'
-- In this state they set forth with the sharp rain driving in their faces: clattering at a heavy dragoon trot over the uneven town pavement, and out upon the mire-deep roads.
-- Happily, however, there was sleep in Beau-vais that night to help them out of it and they passed on once more into solitude and loneliness: jingling through the untimely cold and wet, among impoverished fields that had yielded no fruits of the earth that year, diversified by the blackened remains of burnt houses, and by the sudden emergence from ambuscade, and sharp reining up across their way, of patriot patrols on the watch on all the roads.
-- The word 'wife' seemed to serve as a gloomy reminder 358 A tale of two citiesto Defarge, to say with sudden impatience, 'In the name of that sharp female newly-born, and called La Guillotine, why did you come to France?'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, I declare the Shoes look just like my own,' said one of the clerks, eying the newly-found treasure, whose hidden powers, even he, sharp as he was, was not able to discover.
-- The next day it was a sharp frost and then the spring came; the sun shone, the green leaves appeared, the swal-lows built their nests, the windows were opened, and the little children again sat in their pretty garden, high up on the leads at the top of the house.
-- Kay and Gerda looked at the picture-book full of beasts and of birds; and it was then the clock in the church-tower was just striking five that Kay said, 'Oh!I feel such a sharp pain in my heart; and now something has got into my eye!'
-- Every evening I tickle his neck with my sharp knife; he is so frightened at it!'
-- When the mother had taken a sup at her flask, and was having a nap, the little robber maiden went to the Reindeer, and said, 'I should very much like to give you still many a tickling with the sharp knife, for then you are so amus-ing; however, I will untether you, and help you out, so that you may go back to Lapland.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A pretty sharp fellow this Fomin must be," said Grinevitch of one of the persons taking part in the case they were examining.
-- Konstantin felt a sharp pang at his heart at the thought of the strange company in which his brother spent his life.
-- And he bent his long legs, swatched in tight riding breeches, and sat down in the chair, too low for him, so that his knees were cramped up in a sharp angle.
-- Vronsky patted her strong neck, straightened over her sharp withers a stray lock of her mane that had fallen on the other side, and moved his face near her dilated nostrils, transparent as a bat's wing.
-- She drew a loud breath and snorted out through her tense nostrils, started, pricked up her sharp ear, and put out her strong, black lip towards Vronsky, as though she would nip hold of his sleeve.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Fix's reflections were soon interrupted by a succession of sharp whistles, which announced the arrival of the Mongolia.
-- "Then he's a sharp fellow," returned the consul, "and counts on returning to London after putting the police of the two countries off his track."
-- Just then the locomotive gave a sharp screech, and the train passed out into the darkness of the night.
-- Returning to the Indian, whose small, sharp eyes, glistening with avarice, betrayed that with him it was only a question of how great a price he could obtain.
-- The locomotive, its great funnel emitting a weird light, with its sharp bell, and its cow-catcher extended like a spur, mingled its shrieks and bellowings with the noise of torrents and cascades, and twined its smoke among the branches of the gigantic pines.
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