shelf是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 架子， 搁板，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he had been sent to the bedroom to help the old princess to move the holy picture in its silver and gold setting, and with the princess's old waiting maid he had clambered on a shelf to reach it and had broken the little lamp, and the old servant had tried to reassure him about the lamp and about his wife, and he carried the holy picture and set it at Kitty's head, carefully tucking it in behind the pillow.
-- asked Lidia Ivanovna, and receiving a reply in the affirmative, she got up and began looking through a shelf of books.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout was dispatched in search of the steward, and soon returned with two packs of cards, some pins, counters, and a shelf covered with cloth.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beside him, seated at the long shelf which served as table, beneath the noble red-glass window with a portrait of George Washington, was a policeman who, as he gnawed a Hamburger sandwich, demanded: "Say, ain't you this new doctor that's come to assist Pickerbaugh?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took leave of Mr. Peggotty, and Ham, and Mrs. Gummidge, andlittle Em'ly, that day; and passed the night at Peggotty's in a littleroom in the roof (with the crocodile book on a shelf by the bed'shead), which was to be always mine, Peggotty said, and shouldalways be kept for me in exactly the same state.
-- Myown exclusive breakfast of a penny loaf, and a pennyworth of milk,I provided myself, I kept another small loaf, and a modicum ofcheese, on a particular shelf of a particular cupboard, to make mysupper on when I came back at night.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the corner stood the sheep-crook, and along a shelf at one side were ranged bottles and canisters of the simple preparations pertaining to ovine surgery and physic; spirits of wine, turpentine, tar, magnesia, ginger, and castor-oil being the chief.
-- On a triangular shelf across the corner stood bread, bacon, cheese, and a cup for ale or cider, which was supplied from a flagon beneath.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I sat wondering and waiting in Mr. Jaggers's close room, until I really could not bear the two casts on the shelf above Mr. Jaggers's chair, and got up and went out.
-- Before putting his late friend on his shelf again, Wemmick touched the largest of his mourning rings and said, "Sent out to buy it for me, only the day before."
-- The two ghastly casts on the shelf were not far from him, and their expression was as if they were making a stupid apoplectic attempt to attend to the conversation.
-- I turned at the door, and he was still looking hard at me, while the two vile casts on the shelf seemed to be trying to get their eyelids open, and to force out of their swollen throats, "O, what a man he is!"
-- As I stood idle by Mr. Jaggers's fire, its rising and falling flame made the two casts on the shelf look as if they were playing a diabolical game at bo-peep with me; while the pair of coarse, fat office candles that dimly lighted Mr. Jaggers as he wrote in a corner were decorated with dirty winding-sheets, as if in remembrance of a host of hanged clients.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Wife,' said the man, 'go into the garret; on the upper shelf you will see a pair of red shoes; bring them to me.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her mother and she contrived to fit up the baby's cradle for me against night: the cradle was put into a small drawer of a cabinet, and the drawer placed upon a hanging shelf for fear of the rats.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And in the corner by the window gable was a shelf with some books, and some from a circulating library.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shaggy eyebrows unbent a little as he rolled the steps toward the shelf where the Johnsonian literature was placed.
-- Whether they like it or not, they are virtually put upon the shelf as soon as the wedding excitement is over, and most of them might exclaim, as did a very pretty woman the other day, 'I'm as handsome as ever, but no one takes any notice of me because I'm married.'
-- This is the sort of shelf on which young wives and mothers may consent to be laid, safe from the restless fret and fever of the world, find-ing loyal lovers in the little sons and daughters who cling to them, undaunted by sorrow, poverty, or age, walking side by side, through fair and stormy weather, with a faithful friend, who is, in the true sense of the good old Saxon word, the 'house-band', and learning, as Meg learned, that a wom-an's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it not as a queen, but as a wise wife and mother.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Likewise, there was a parcel of outlandish bone fish hooks on the shelf over the fire-place, and a tall harpoon standing at the head of the bed.
-- You cannot put a shelf or chest of drawers in your body, and no more can you make a convenient closet of your watch-coat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I couldn't,--oh!The top shelf in the right-hand corner-- oh!'
-- Mr. Bumble rushed to the closet; and, snatching a pint green-glass bottle from the shelf thus incoherently indicated, filled a tea-cup with its contents, and held it to the lady's lips.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went into the little office and took it from the shelf in the corner.
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