counter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 柜台; v. 反对, 反击，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：
-- When everybody had retired but the two pren-tices, they did the same to them; and thus the cheerful voices died away, and the lads were left to their beds; which were under a counter in the back-shop.
-- It was not alone that the scales descending on the counter made a merry sound, or that the twine and roller parted company so briskly, or that the canisters were rattled up and down like juggling tricks, or even that the blended scents of tea and coffee were so grateful to the nose, or even that the raisins were so plentiful and rare, the al-monds so extremely white, the sticks of cinnamon so long and straight, the other spices so delicious, the candied fruits so caked and spotted with molten sugar as to make the coldest lookers-on feel faint and subsequently bilious.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Madame Defarge, his wife, sat in the shop behind the counter as he came in.
-- Other company were there: two playing cards, two playing dominoes, three standing by the counter lengthening out a short supply of wine.
-- There had been more of early brooding than drink-ing; for, many men had listened and whispered and slunk about there from the time of the opening of the door, who could not have laid a piece of money on the counter to save their souls.
-- Madame enforced the conclusion of this piece of advice by striking her little counter with her chain of money as if she knocked its brains out, and then gathering the heavy handkerchief under her arm in a serene manner, and ob-serving that it was time to go to bed.
-- 483 Madame Defarge returned to her counter to get the wine, and, as he took up a Jacobin journal and feigned to pore over it puzzling out its meaning, he heard her say, 'I swear to you, like Evremonde!'
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：
-- But little Den-mark must take care what it is about, and not run counter to the moon; that great realm, that might in an ill-humor be-stir itself, and dash down a hail-storm in our faces, or force the Baltic to overflow the sides of its gigantic basin.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You know to me all women are divided into two classes...at least no...truer to say: there are women and there are...I've never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets are vermin to my mind, and all fallen women are the same."
-- The high figure of the salary made him reflect that on that side Stepan Arkadyevitch's proposed position ran counter to the main tendency of his own projects of reform, which always leaned towards economy.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the counter stood a boy of about fourteen, and there was another boy somewhat younger who handed whatever was wanted.
-- On the counter lay some sliced cu-cumber, some pieces of dried black bread, and some fish, chopped up small, all smelling very bad.
-- The boys at the counter fell to sniggering.
-- he went on hurried-ly and with apparent composure when both the boys at the counter guffawed and even the innkeeper smiled 'No mat-ter, I am not confounded by the wagging of their heads; for everyone knows everything about it already, and all that is secret is made open.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She sank down on one of the little stools behind the counter of the booth and looked up and down the long hallwhich, until this afternoon, had been a bare and ugly drill room.
-- Rebelliously she leaned her elbows on the counter and looked at the crowd, flouting Mammy's oft-repeatedadmonition against leaning on elbows and making them ugly and wrinkled.
-- There were crowds in front of every other counter but theirs, girls chattering, men buying.
-- He leaned down across the counter until his mouth was near her ear and hissed, in a very creditable imitation ofthe stage villains who appeared infrequently at the Athenaeum Hall: "Fear not, fair lady!Your guilty secret is safe withme!"
-- There were more shouts of approval, and Rhett Butler who had been lounging negligently against the counter atScarlett's side whispered: "Pompous goat, isn't he?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Trabb never removed his stern eye from the boy until he had deposited number four on the counter and was at a safe distance again.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nevertheless, it appeared quite clear to me, that we were not in the principal chimney of the volcano, but in an accessory conduit, where we felt the counter shock of the great and principal tunnel filled by burning lava.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two were playing dominoes at one of the little tables; three or four were seated round the stove, conversing as they smoked; the billiard-table in the centre was left alone for the time; the landlady of the Daybreak sat behind her little counter among her cloudy bottles of syrups, baskets of cakes, and leaden drainage for glasses, working at her needle.
-- Nothing was astir there but the smell of coffee, wine, tobacco, and syrups; and madame's little counter looked ghastly enough.
-- Pancks put the counter question, 'What else?'
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