feather是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 羽毛，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：
-- repeated Hawkeye, with singular and ill-con-cealed disdain; 'do you take me for a whimpering boy at the apronstring of one of your old gals; and this good rifle on my knee for the feather of a goose's wing, my ox's horn for a bottle of ink, and my leathern pouch for a cross-barred handkercher to carry my dinner?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While Mr Vuffin and his two friends smoked their pipes and beguiled the time with such conversation as this, the silent gentleman sat in a warm corner, swallowing, or seeming to swallow, sixpennyworth of halfpence for practice, balancing a feather upon his nose, and rehearsing other feats of dexterity of that kind, without paying any regard whatever to the company, who in their turn left him utterly unnoticed.
-- Why, the gayest feather in Miss Monflathers's cap, and the brightest glory of Miss Monflathers's school, was a baronet's daughter the real live daughter of a real live baronet who, by some extraordinary reversal of the Laws of Nature, was not only plain in features but dull in intellect, while the poor apprentice had both a ready wit, and a handsome face and figure.
-- And don't take him,' Miss Sally pointed with the feather of her pen to Richard, 'off his business.
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：
-- A wet brown dog came running and did not bark, lifting a wet feather of a tail.
-- He was in rather high feather this bright morning.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now, let me see, there's my new gray walking suit, just curl up the feather in my hat, Beth, then my poplin for Sunday and the small party, it looks heavy for spring, doesn't it?
-- 'You are a thing of beauty and a joy forever,' said Jo, look-ing through her hand with the air of a connoisseur at the blue feather against the golden hair.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a feather of the same fowl.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Look, she made me this bow to my hat, and put in the feather last night.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Schooled in winning those birds of fine feather among his own sex, the merchants and professionals who visited his resort, he could use even greater tact when endeavouring to prove agreeable to some one who charmed him.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt easy and happy and light as a feather right off.
-- A nigger rousted me out this mornin', and told me the people was getherin' on the quiet with their dogs and horses, and they'd be along pretty soon and give me 'bout half an hour's start, and then run me down if they could; and if they got me they'd tar and feather me and ride me on a rail, sure.
-- The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to lynch a MAN!Because you're brave enough to tar and feather poor friendless cast-out women that come along here, did that make you think you had grit enough to lay your hands on a MAN?
-- Why, it was astonish-ing, the way I felt as light as a feather right straight off, and my troubles all gone.
-- 'Why, Tom, we can pull a feather out of a goose and make him a better one; and quicker, too.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Because that feather pillow on my feet bothers me."
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