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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Most of all she learned how to conceal from men a sharp intelligence beneath a face assweet and bland as a baby's.
-- "A sharp little wench," she thought, and said aloud: "Thank you, Dilcey, we'll see about it when Mother comeshome."
-- Of course, her brooch couldbe pinned over the spot, but perhaps Melanie had sharp eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The man took strong sharp sudden bites, just like the dog.
-- "Besides," said Mr. Pumblechook, turning sharp on me, "think what you've got to be grateful for.
-- As I cried, I kicked the wall, and took a hard twist at my hair; so bitter were my feelings, and so sharp was the smart without a name, that needed counteraction.
-- His eyes were set very deep in his head, and were disagreeably sharp and suspicious.
-- But unwilling to hazard the responsibility, she let me in, and presently brought the sharp message that I was to "come up."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Nothing better,' said this false bride, 'than that she should be thrown into a cask stuck round with sharp nails, and that two white horses should be put to it, and should drag it from street to street till she was dead.'
-- But Chanticleer was no coward, and returned the duck's blows with his sharp spurs so fiercely that she soon began to cry out for mercy; which was only granted her upon condition that she would draw the carriage home for them.
-- Still, his eyes were sharp and sparkling, and he soon showed himself to be a clever little fellow, who always knew well what he was about.
-- said he, 'I'm off!mind and look sharp after me the next time.'
-- The husband thought to himself, 'If my wife manages matters thus, I must look sharp myself.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About four hours after we began our journey, I awaked by a very ridiculous accident; for the carriage being stopped a while, to adjust something that was out of order, two or three of the young natives had the curiosity to see how I looked when I was asleep; they climbed up into the engine, and advancing very softly to my face, one of them, an officer in the guards, put the sharp end of his half-pike a good way up into my left nostril, which tickled my nose like a straw, and made me sneeze violently; whereupon they stole off un-perceived, and it was three weeks before I knew the cause of my waking so suddenly.
-- These insects were as large as partridges: I took out their stings, found them an inch and a half long, and as sharp as needles.
-- They climbed high trees as nimbly as a squirrel, for they had strong extended claws before and behind, ter-minating in sharp points, and hooked.
-- He thought his ears, being used to such abominable words, might, by degrees, admit them with less detestation: that although he hated the Ya-hoos of this country, yet he no more blamed them for their odious qualities, than he did a gnnayh (a bird of prey) for its cruelty, or a sharp stone for cutting his hoof.
-- However, they have excellent medicines, composed of herbs, to cure accidental bruises and cuts in the pastern or frog of the foot, by sharp stones, as well as other maims and hurts in the several parts of the body.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet there was a remarkable gentleness and childishness about these people, a special inaptitude for any kind of sharp practice, and an untiring readiness to help and pity one another, deserving often of as much respect, and always of as much generous construction, as the every-day virtues of any class of people in the world.
-- 'I say!Look sharp for old Bounderby, Loo!'
-- 'Do look sharp for old Bounderby, Loo!'
-- Mr. Bounderby sat looking at her, as, with the points of a stiff, sharp pair of scissors, she picked out holes for some inscrutable ornamental purpose, in a piece of cambric.
-- She is not obliged to say what she is going to do with it; she is sharp enough; she could manage to coax it out of him, if she chose.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I can tell," replied my uncle, in a sharp and doctorial tone.
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