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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The great granite tunnel, as it went round by sinuous and winding ways, presented every now and then sharp turns, and in fact all the appearance of a labyrinth.
-- My uncle was so delighted that he actually clapped his hands--as he saw how steep and sharp was the descent.
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：
-- It stood on an eminence in a rather line old park of oak trees, but alas, one could see in the near distance the chim-ney of Tevershall pit, with its clouds of steam and smoke, and on the damp, hazy distance of the hill the raw straggle of Tevershall village, a village which began almost at the park gates, and trailed in utter hopeless ugliness for a long and gruesome mile: houses, rows of wretched, small, be-grimed, brick houses, with black slate roofs for lids, sharp angles and wilful, blank dreariness.
-- Curious, she thought, that that thin, proud man should have that little, sharp woman for a mother!
-- She was kind to Connie, and tried to worm into her woman's soul with the sharp gimlet of her well-born ob-servations.
-- The dog trotted forward with a short, sharp bark, and the keeper lifted his face suddenly and saw her.
-- And with brilliant eyes they watched Connie, as she crouched before them, and they gave short sharp clucks of anger and alarm, but chiefly of female anger at being ap-proached.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But his eyes, too close together, were not so nobly set in his head as those of the king of beasts are in his, and they were sharp rather than bright pointed weapons with little surface to betray them.
-- Maddening church bells of all degrees of dissonance, sharp and flat, cracked and clear, fast and slow, made the brick-and-mortar echoes hideous.
-- said Mrs Flintwinch in a rather sharp key.
-- To question him in detail, and endeavour to reconcile his answers; to closet him with accountants and sharp practitioners, learned in the wiles of insolvency and bankruptcy; was only to put the case out at compound interest and incomprehensibility.
-- The visitor, observing that she held the door on the inside, and that, when the uncle tried to open it, there was a sharp adjuration of 'Don't, stupid!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Birds in their little nests agree,' sang Beth, the peacemak-er, with such a funny face that both sharp voices softened to a laugh, and the 'pecking' ended for that time.
-- A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.
-- 'She caught up her knitting, which had dropped out of her hands, gave me a sharp look through her specs, and said, in her short way, 'Finish the chapter, and don't be im-pertinent, miss'.'
-- Her face was very friendly and her sharp voice unusually gentle as she said... 'We'll never draw that curtain any more, and I give you leave to look as much as you like.
-- That is what troubles me, for the sharp words fly out before I know what I'm about, and the more I say the worse I get, till it's a pleasure to hurt people's feelings and say dreadful things.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It stood on a sharp bleak corner, where that tempestuous wind Euroclydon kept up a worse howling than ever it did about poor Paul's tossed craft.
-- Afterwards I wondered the less at this operation when I came to know of what fine steel the head of a harpoon is made, and how exceedingly sharp the long straight edges are always kept.
-- All round, her unpanelled, open bulwarks were garnished like one continuous jaw, with the long sharp teeth of the sperm whale, inserted there for pins, to fasten her old hempen thews and tendons to.
-- Aye, aye, I know that he was never very jolly; and I know that on the passage home, he was a little out of his mind for a spell; but it was the sharp shooting pains in his bleeding stump that brought that about, as any one might see.
-- and taking sharp aim at it, he darted the iron right over old Bildad's broad brim, clean across the ship's decks, and struck the glistening tar spot out of sight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, catching hold of the bridle, he gave his jaw a sharp wrench, by way of gentle reminder that he was not his own master; and by these means turned him round.
-- In the very instant when Oliver began to run, the old gentleman, putting his hand to his pocket, and missing his handkerchief, turned sharp round.
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