masterpiece是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 杰作， 名著，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once Clif produced the masterpiece of throwing a brick into the sink beside the platform, just when Dr. Robertshaw was working up to his annual climax about the effects of brass bands on the intensity of the knee-jerk.
-- And when I read a poem with such originality and swing, when I find a genu-ine vest-pocket masterpiece like this, then I realize that I'm not a poet at all, no matter how much my jingles may serve to jazz up the Cause of Health.
-- Two evenings after, when they had returned from the opera, she led him to the cement-floored garage beneath his new laboratory, and in a corner, ready to be set up, was a secondhand but adequate centrifuge, a most adequate centrifuge, the masterpiece of the great firm of Berkeley- Saunders--in fact none other than Gladys, whose dismissal from McGurk for her sluttish ways had stirred Martin and Terry to go out and get bountifully drunk.
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：
-- In a little while nothing remained but smouldering embers, and a great masterpiece existed no longer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Far be it from us, in the present comparativelyimperfect state of the resources of our establishment to endeavourto follow our distinguished townsman through the smoothly-flowing periods of his polished and highly-ornate address!Sufficeit to observe, that it was a masterpiece of eloquence; and that thosepassages in which he more particularly traced his own successfulcareer to its source, and warned the younger portion of hisauditory from the shoals of ever incurring pecuniary liabilitieswhich they were unable to liquidate, brought a tear into themanliest eye present.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Recovering from the softer impressions produced by Bathsheba's voice, the shearers rose to leave, Coggan turning to Pennyways as he pushed back the bench to pass out: "I like to give praise where praise is due, and the man deserves it that 'a do so," he remarked, looking at the worthy thief, as if he were the masterpiece of some world-renowned artist.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This ship is a masterpiece of modern industry, and I should be sorry not to have seen it.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was almost a masterpiece in good form.
-- "But you'll find that the really chic thing is to be so absolutely ordinary, so perfectly commonplace and like the person in the street, that you really are a masterpiece of humanity, not the person in the street actually, but the artistic creation of her ""How awful!"
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A good deal of hammering went on before the curtain rose again, but when it became evident what a masterpiece of stage carpentery had been got up, no one murmured at the delay.
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