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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He spent the whole day in studying maps, which were spread out on the saloon table, to the great annoyance of M. Olbinett, who could never get the cloth laid for meals, without disputes on the subject.
-- "A real breakfast, on a real table, with a cloth and napkins?"
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the middle of the hut a flat stone served the purpose of a table, and upon this stood a small cloth bundle the same, no doubt, which I had seen through the telescope upon the shoulder of the boy.
-- In his tweed suit and cloth cap he looked like any other tourist upon the moor, and he had contrived, with that cat-like love of personal cleanliness which was one of his characteristics, that his chin should be as smooth and his linen as perfect as if he were in Baker Street.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I don't know I dreamed last night that I was being suf-focated with a wet cloth by somebody.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mighty lord of the earth-quake unyoked his horses for him, set the car upon its stand, and threw a cloth over it.
-- Then they laid it on a bier and covered it with a linen cloth from head to foot, and over this they laid a fair white robe.
-- With many tears they singled out the whitened bones of their loved comrade and laid them within a golden urn in two layers of fat: they then covered the urn with a linen cloth and took it inside the tent.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I experienced again the strange sensation of seeing the cloth disappear, and so I came round to the windy hillside and the sniffing old clergyman mumbling 'Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust,' at my father's open grave.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were naked, save for swathings of scarlet cloth about the middle; and their skins were of a dull pinkish-drab colour, such as I had seen in no savages before.
-- The chase lay through the brake for perhaps a quarter of a mile, and then plunged into a dense thicket, which retarded our movements exceeding-ly, though we went through it in a crowd together, fronds flicking into our faces, ropy creepers catching us under the chin or gripping our ankles, thorny plants hooking into and tearing cloth and flesh together.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First he had to wear a cloth round him, which annoyed him horribly; and then he had to learn about money, which he did not in the least understand, and about plowing, of which he did not see the use.
-- He fumbled in his waist cloth for flint and steel, and stooped down to singe Shere Khan's whiskers.
-- Alala!I have no cloth to wrap me.
-- When thou art old, Kala Nag, there will come some rich rajah, and he will buy thee from the Government, on ac-count of thy size and thy manners, and then thou wilt have nothing to do but to carry gold earrings in thy ears, and a gold howdah on thy back, and a red cloth covered with gold on thy sides, and walk at the head of the processions of the King.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ay, lady, the fine cobweb-looking cloth you wear at your throat is coarse, and like a fishnet, to little spots I can show you, where the river fabricates all sorts of images, as if having broke loose from order, it would try its hand at everything.
-- He made a law, that if an Indian swallowed the fire-water, and came into the cloth wigwams of his warriors, it should not be forgotten.
-- continued Magua, tearing aside the slight calico that very imperfectly concealed his painted breast; 'here are scars given by knives and bullets of these a warrior may boast before his nation; but the gray-head has left marks on the back of the Huron chief that he must hide like a squaw, under this painted cloth of the whites.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After their departure, taking place in inverted order to their arrival, the canvas cloth was cleared, or rather was restored to some hurried order by the pallid steward.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cloth was laid for supper; the table was covered with bread and butter, plates and glasses; a porter-pot and a wine-bottle.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The coat lapels stood out with that medium stiffness which excellent cloth possesses.
-- The street looked like a sea of round black cloth roofs, twisting, bobbing, moving.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lid was shoved along about a foot, show- ing the dead man's face down in there, with a wet cloth over it, and his shroud on.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the very first pennies I make, I'll buy Father a new cloth coat.
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