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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Forthwith Mr. Huxter, conceiving he was witness of some petty larceny, leapt round his counter and ran out into the road to intercept the thief.
-- The barman leant his fat red arms on the counter and talked of horses with an anaemic cabman, while a black-bearded man in grey snapped up biscuit and cheese, drank Burton, and conversed in American with a policeman off duty.
-- I went behind the counter of this, and waited for my cook, and as he bolted in at the head of the chase, I doubled him up with a lamp.
-- Down he went, and I crouched down behind the counter and began whipping off my clothes as fast as I could.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My commonplace scheme was, after all, effective, for in the second shop we asked at the woman behind the counter acknowledged that she knew him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What was all this though even all this to the extraordinary dissipation that ensued, when Kit, walking into an oyster-shop as bold as if he lived there, and not so much as looking at the counter or the man behind it, led his party into a box a private box, fitted up with red curtains, white table-cloth, and cruet-stand complete and ordered a fierce gentleman with whiskers, who acted as waiter and called him, him Christopher Nubbles, 'sir,' to bring three dozen of his largest-sized oysters, and to look sharp about it!Yes, Kit told this gentleman to look sharp, and he not only said he would look sharp, but he actually did, and presently came running back with the newest loaves, and the freshest butter, and the largest oysters, ever seen.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently the whole chapel resounded with rappings and counter rappings: every man's hand was against his neighbour; and Branderham, unwilling to remain idle, poured forth his zeal in a shower of loud taps on the boards of the pulpit, which responded so smartly that, at last, to my unspeakable relief, they woke me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a very small establishment, wherein a decent woman sat behind the counter working at her needle.
-- On the first-floor of the house was a Bank a surprising experience for any gentleman of commercial pursuits bringing laws for all mankind from a British city where two spare clerks, like dried dragoons, in green velvet caps adorned with golden tassels, stood, bearded, behind a small counter in a small room, containing no other visible objects than an empty iron-safe with the door open, a jug of water, and a papering of garland of roses; but who, on lawful requisition, by merely dipping their hands out of sight, could produce exhaustless mounds of five-franc pieces.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These pleadings, and the counter pleadings, being duly heard, the very learned judge in set terms decided, to wit, That as for the boat, he awarded it to the plaintiffs, because they had merely abandoned it to save their lives; but that with regard to the controverted whale, harpoons, and line, they belonged to the defendants; the whale, because it was a Loose-Fish at the time of the final capture; and the harpoons and line because when the fish made off with them, it (the fish) acquired a property in those articles; and hence anybody who afterwards took the fish had a right to them.
-- But suddenly reined back by some counter thought, he hurried towards the helm, huskily demanding how the ship was heading.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Coffin-plates, elm-chips, bright-headed nails, and shreds of black cloth, lay scattered on the floor; and the wall behind the counter was ornamented with a lively representation of two mutes in very stiff neckcloths, on duty at a large private door, with a hearse drawn by four black steeds, approaching in the distance.
-- The recess beneath the counter in which his flock mattress was thrust, looked like a grave.
-- As the atrocity presented itself to Mr. Bumble's mind in full force, he struck the counter sharply with his cane, and became flushed with indignation.
-- Mr. Bumble tapped with his cane on the counter several times; but, attracting no attention, and beholding a light shining through the glass-window of the little parlour at the back of the shop, he made bold to peep in and see what was going forward; and when he saw what was going forward, he was not a little surprised.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All that could be done was, to sit down at that end of the counter which seemed to promise the quickest succession; one gentleman only was standing there, and it is probable that Elinor was not without hope of exciting his politeness to a quicker despatch.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he visited a department store it was to lounge familiarly over the counter and ask some leading questions.
-- Each separate counter was a show place of dazzling interest and attraction.
-- How would she look in this, how charming that would make her!She came upon the corset counter and paused in rich reverie as she noted the dainty concoctions of colour and lace there displayed.
-- He came back to the end of the counter as if to rest his arm and think.
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