flap是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 拍打, 挥动; 垂下物; 袋盖; 慌乱，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：
-- And he held up the flap of the bar.
-- And even as he did so the flap of the bar was shut down and the bolt clicked, and then with a tremendous thud the catch of the door snapped and the bar- parlour door burst open.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have heard, perhaps, of a common surgical operation resorted to in cases where the nose has been destroyed: a flap of skin is cut from the forehead, turned down on the nose, and heals in the new position.
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：
-- From beneath the flap of an enormous pocket of a soiled vest of embossed silk, heavily ornamented with tarnished silver lace, projected an instrument, which, from being seen in such martial company, might have been easily mis-taken for some mischievous and unknown implement of war.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I wish it wouldn't flap its wings so it makes quite a hurricane in the wood here's somebody's shawl being blown away!'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She reminds me of a skinnyhen perched on a chair, her eyes kind of bright and blank and scared, all ready to flap and squawk at the slightest moveanybody makes."
-- Armed with a ragged towel, the little negro boysitting on the steps was part of the picture of Tara and an unhappy one, for he was forbidden to chunk the fowls andcould only flap the towel at them and shoo them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was modestly wondering whether my utmost ingenuity would have enabled me to say anything that would have amused him half as much as this imaginary pleasantry, when I was startled by a sudden click in the wall on one side of the chimney, and the ghostly tumbling open of a little wooden flap with "JOHN" upon it.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This flapper is likewise employed diligently to attend his master in his walks, and upon occasion to give him a soft flap on his eyes; because he is always so wrapped up in cogitation, that he is in manifest danger of falling down every precipice, and bouncing his head against every post; and in the streets, of justling others, or being justled himself into the kennel.
-- He spoke some words, whereupon immediately a young man with a flap came up to my side, and flapped me gently on the right ear; but I made signs, as well as I could, that I had no occasion for such an instru-ment; which, as I afterwards found, gave his majesty, and the whole court, a very mean opinion of my understand-ing.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why should not one of the birds reconstructed by the immortal Cuvier flap his stupendous wings aloft in the dull strata of subterranean air?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he struck his straggling boot-heels against the flap of the table, meeting her frown with an insolent gaze, he began to change his tone for a fierce one.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and how th 'Spread Eagle' might be said to flap his wings triumphantly over the House of March, as the paper passed from hand to hand.
-- 'Yesterday, when Aunt was asleep and I was trying to be as still as a mouse, Polly began to squall and flap about in his cage, so I went to let him out, and found a big spider there.
-- He didn't hear me call, nor see me flap my parasol in front, and there we were, quite helpless, rattling away, and whirling around cor-ners at a breakneck pace.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in his joy at the enchanted, tacit acquiescence of the mate, Ahab did not hear his foreboding invocation; nor yet the low laugh from the hold; nor yet the presaging vibrations of the winds in the cordage; nor yet the hollow flap of the sails against the masts, as for a moment their hearts sank in.
-- From hand to hand, the buckets went in the deepest silence, only broken by the occasional flap of a sail, and the steady hum of the unceasingly advancing keel.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having fitted my mast and sail, and tried the boat, I found she would sail very well; then I made little lockers or boxes at each end of my boat, to put provisions, necessar-ies, ammunition, &c., into, to be kept dry, either from rain or the spray of the sea; and a little, long, hollow place I cut in the inside of the boat, where I could lay my gun, making a flap to hang down over it to keep it dry.
-- I had a great high shapeless cap, made of a goat's skin, with a flap hanging down behind, as well to keep the sun from me as to shoot the rain off from running into my neck, nothing being so hurtful in these climates as the rain upon the flesh under the clothes.
-- I had a short jacket of goat's skin, the skirts coming down to about the middle of the thighs, and a pair of open-kneed breeches of the same; the breeches were made of the skin of an old he-goat, whose hair hung down such a length on either side that, like pantaloons, it reached to the middle of my legs; stockings and shoes I had none, but had made me a pair of somethings, I scarce knew what to call them, like buskins, to flap over my legs, and lace on either side like spatterdashes, but of a most barbarous shape, as indeed were all the rest of my clothes.
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