piano是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 钢琴，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：
-- "A piano in the wilds!"
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：
-- There were bits of old brocade on the walls, and the piano was covered with a piece of silk, beautiful and tarnished; in one corner was a copy of the Venus of Milo, and in another of the Venus of the Medici.
-- In the bar in which Strickland and Nichols sat a mechanical piano was loudly grinding out dance music.
-- We had a piano sent out from France, and she has taught them to play and to speak English, and I have taught them Latin and mathematics, and we read history together.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sounds of a tuneless piano again assailed his ears, but this time it was not a rhapsody that was played, but a study by Clementi, and, as before, with unusual force, precision and rapidity.
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：
-- The whole building being of wood, it seemed to carry every sound, like a drum, but instead of increasing each particular noise, it decreased it, so that the sound of the zither seemed tiny, as if a diminutive zither were playing somewhere, and it seemed the piano must be a small one, like a little spinet.
-- Loerke, who was sitting hunched on the piano stool, blinked and did not answer.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beth went to the piano and played the father's favorite hymn.
-- She felt so ill one day that she told Jo she wanted to give her piano to Meg, her cats to you, and the poor old doll to Jo, who would love it for her sake.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By degrees, however, as some of it cleared away through the open door, an assemblage of heads, as confused as the noises that greeted the ear, might be made out; and as the eye grew more accustomed to the scene, the spectator gradually became aware of the presence of a numerous company, male and female, crowded round a long table: at the upper end of which, sat a chairman with a hammer of office in his hand; while a professional gentleman with a bluish nose, and his face tied up for the benefit of a toothache, presided at a jingling piano in a remote corner.
-- The young lady merely throwing off her simple bonnet, sat down to the piano as usual.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The effect of his discourse on the lady too, could not escape her observation, for though she was too honorable to listen, and had even changed her seat, on purpose that she might NOT hear, to one close by the piano forte on which Marianne was playing, she could not keep herself from seeing that Elinor changed colour, attended with agitation, and was too intent on what he said to pursue her employment. Still farther in confirmation of her hopes, in the interval of Marianne's turning from one lesson to another, some words of the Colonel's inevitably reached her ear, in which he seemed to be apologising for the badness of his house.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You ought to have a piano here, Drouet," said Hurstwood, smiling at Carrie, on the evening in question, "so that your wife could play."
-- A few times she had seen her at the piano in the parlour, and not infrequently had heard her play.
-- Her nervous composition responded to certain strains, much as certain strings of a harp vibrate when a corresponding key of a piano is struck.
-- A young lady, a guest of the house, playing a piano in an alcove pleased him.
-- In the third room, or parlour, was a piano, a heavy piano lamp, with a shade of gorgeous pattern, a library table, several huge easy rockers, some dado book shelves, and a gilt curio case, filled with oddities.
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