contrast是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 使对比, 形成对照; n. 明显的差别，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：
-- The stranger's excitement was a strong contrast to the Major's placidity.
-- These might easily have been taken for sheets of ice, had not the intense heat forbidden the illusion; and the contrast these dazzling white sheets presented to the dry, burned-up ground gave the desert a most peculiar character.
-- The contrast was presented very vividly to the spectators placed between these two countries so divided, and some emotion filled the minds of the travelers, as they contemplated the almost unknown district they were about to traverse right to the frontiers of Victoria.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There could not have been a greater contrast between brother and sister, for Stapleton was neutral tinted, with light hair and gray eyes, while she was darker than any brunette whom I have seen in England slim, elegant, and tall.
-- There is something tropical and exotic about her which forms a singular contrast to her cool and unemo-tional brother.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Give my dearest love to Father, and believe me, ever your own... MEG This note, prettily written on scented paper, was a great contrast to the next, which was scribbled on a big sheet of thin foreign paper, ornamented with blots and all manner of flourishes and curly-tailed letters.
-- 'It's evident he doesn't look in his glass before coming down,' thought Jo, with a smile, as he said 'Goot efening,' and sat soberly down, quite unconscious of the ludicrous contrast between his subject and his headgear, for he was going to read her the Death of Wallenstein.
-- He was one of the men who are at home with children, and looked particularly well when little faces made a pleasant contrast with his manly one.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In strange contrast to the hardly tolerable constraint and nameless invisible domineerings of the captain's table, was the entire care-free license and ease, the almost frantic democracy of those inferior fellows the harpooneers.
-- Meantime, Queequeg's impulsive, indifferent sword, sometimes hitting the woof slantingly, or crookedly, or strongly, or weakly, as the case might be; and by this difference in the concluding blow producing a corresponding contrast in the final aspect of the completed fabric; this savage's sword, thought I, which thus finally shapes and fashions both warp and woof; this easy, indifferent sword must be chance aye, chance, free will, and necessity nowise incompatible all interweavingly working together.
-- In the first place, you are struck by the general contrast between these heads.
-- The contrast between this Ottoman and his concubines is striking; because, while he is always of the largest leviathanic proportions, the ladies, even at full growth, are not more than one-third of the bulk of an average-sized male.
-- The schools composing none but young and vigorous males, previously mentioned, offer a strong contrast to the harem schools.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What a contrast between him and his friend!Mr.
-- Bingley was endeared to Darcy by the easiness, openness, and ductility of his temper, though no disposition could offer a great-er contrast to his own, and though with his own he never appeared dissatisfied.
-- What a contrast did it offer to his last address in Rosings Park, when he put his letter into her hand!She knew not what to think, or how to account for it.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a contrast which recommended him most forcibly to her mother.
-- In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.
-- She began almost to feel a dislike of Edward; and it ended, as every feeling must end with her, by carrying back her thoughts to Willoughby, whose manners formed a contrast sufficiently striking to those of his brother elect.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was emphasised by contrast with his own distressing state.
-- The actor whom they had gone to see had achieved his popularity by presenting a mellow type of comedy, in which sufficient sorrow was introduced to lend contrast and relief to humour.
-- He had taken away some of the bitterness of the contrast between this life and her life, and all by a certain calm indifference which concerned only him.
-- She had an ideal to contrast men by--particularly men close to her.
-- This was so clear in his mind, that he was startled now by the contrast of this room.
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