cloth是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (一块) 布， 织物， 衣料，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：
-- At last the dinner was all done, the cloth was cleared, the hearth swept, and the fire made up.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Early as it was, on the windy March morning, the room in which he lay abed was already scrubbed throughout; and between the cups and saucers ar-ranged for breakfast, and the lumbering deal table, a very clean white cloth was spread.
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：
-- All the people throughout the city had heard of the wonderful property the cloth was to possess; and all were anxious to learn how wise, or how ig-norant, their neighbors might prove to be.
-- 'I will send my faithful old minister to the weavers,' said the Emperor at last, after some deliberation, 'he will be best able to see how the cloth looks; for he is a man of sense, and no one can be more suitable for his office than be is.'
-- The Emperor now sent another officer of his court to see Andersen's Fairy Taleshow the men were getting on, and to ascertain whether the cloth would soon be ready.
-- 'Indeed, please your Imperial Majesty,' said he to his sovereign when he returned, 'the cloth which the weavers are preparing is extraordinarily magnificent.'
-- The whole city was talking of the splendid cloth which the Emperor had ordered to be woven at his own expense.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instantly flinging a fresh cloth over the round table under the bronze chandelier, though it already had a table cloth on it, he pushed up velvet chairs, and came to a standstill before Stepan Arkadyevitch with a napkin and a bill of fare in his hands, awaiting his commands.
-- Chapter 13 Levin put on his big boots, and, for the first time, a cloth jacket, instead of his fur cloak, and went out to look after his farm, stepping over streams of water that flashed in the sunshine and dazzled his eyes, and treading one minute on ice and the next into sticky mud.
-- The roof was mended, a kitchen maid was found--a crony of the village elder's-- hens were bought, the cows began giving milk, the garden hedge was stopped up with stakes, the carpenter made a mangle, hooks were put in the cupboards, and they ceased to burst open spontaneously, and an ironing-board covered with army cloth was placed across from the arm of a chair to the chest of drawers, and there was a smell of flatirons in the maids' room.
-- Levin smiled, bent his arm, and under Stepan Arkadyevitch's fingers the muscles swelled up like a sound cheese, hard as a knob of iron, through the fine cloth of the coat.
-- He would have covered the picture, but he stopped, holding the cloth in his hand, and, smiling blissfully, gazed a long while at the figure of John.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But poverty kept him from fulfillment of his summer longing to sit beneath the poplars by the Rhine or the tranquil Seine, at a table on whose checkered cloth were bread and cheese and wine and dusky cherries, those ancient and holy simplicities of all the world.
-- The seedy Pickerbaugh domain was enchanted; the tangled grass was a garden of roses, the ragged grape-arbor a shrine to Diana, the old hammock turned to fringed cloth of silver, the bad-tempered and sputtering lawn-sprinkler a fountain, and over all the world was the proper witchery of moonstruck love.
-- The guinea pigs, awake and nibbling, were making a sound like that of a wet cloth rubbed on glass in window-cleaning.
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：
-- The cloth was clean.
-- A plain, deal table cov-ered by a blue cloth stood against the same wall, close to the door into the other flat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt it was takinga liberty to sit down, with my cap in my hand, on the corner of thechair nearest the door; and when the waiter laid a cloth on purposefor me, and put a set of casters on it, I think I must have turned redall over with modesty.
-- I preceded Mr. Omer, in compliance with hisrequest; and after showing me a roll of cloth which he said wasextra super, and too good mourning for anything short of parents,he took my various dimensions, and put them down in a book.
-- 189The cloth being drawn, and some sherry put upon the table (ofwhich I had a glass), my aunt sent up for Mr. Dick again, whojoined us, and looked as wise as he could when she requested himto attend to my story, which she elicited from me, gradually, by acourse of questions.
-- My aunt, 193without appearing to take much heed of me, put on a coarse apronwith a bib, which she took out of the press; washed up the teacupswith her own hands; and, when everything was washed and set inthe tray again, and the cloth folded and put on the top of thewhole, rang for Janet to remove it.
-- The cloth was only laid for us two; but Agnes was waiting inthe drawing-room before dinner, went down with her father, andsat opposite to him at table.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He loved to have the cloth laid, because it had been the fashion of his youth, but his conviction of suppers being very unwholesome made him rather sorry to see any thing put on it; and while his hospitality would have welcomed his visitors to every thing, his care for their health made him grieve that they would eat.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Stand here with a bucket of water and keep the cloth wet."
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