statue是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 塑像， 雕像，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：
-- His waiting attitude was full of dignity; indeed, to see him standing grave and motionless on his pedestal of rocks, one might have taken him for a statue of sang-froid.
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：
-- On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted sol-dier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm.
-- There, outlined as black as an ebony statue on that shining back-ground, I saw the figure of a man upon the tor.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So many things were entirely new to their experience the choice furniture, the pictures, the great statue of Venus.
-- Oh, non-sense!Here have I been sitting in my box at the French theatre for the last five years like a statue of inaccessible vir-tue, and kept out of the way of all admirers, like a silly little idiot!Now, there's this man, who comes and pays down his hundred thousand on the table, before you all, in spite of my five years of innocence and proud virtue, and I dare be sworn he has his sledge outside waiting to carry me off.
-- Lebedeff started, and at sight of the prince stood like a statue for a moment.
-- On seeing the prince he became deadly white, and ap-parently fixed to the ground, so that he was more like a marble statue than a human being.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Doctor Manette, whom this visitation had so turned into 416 A tale of two citiesstone, that be stood with the lamp in his hand, as if be woe a statue made to hold it, moved after these words were spo-ken, put the lamp down, and confronting the speaker, and taking him, not ungently, by the loose front of his red wool-len shirt, said: 'You know him, you have said.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as soon as, driving into the wide semicircular court and getting out of the sledge, he mounted the steps, and the hall porter, adorned with a crossway scarf, noiselessly opened the door to him with a bow; as soon as he saw in the porter's room the cloaks and galoshes of members who thought it less trouble to take them off downstairs; as soon as he heard the mysterious ringing bell that preceded him as he ascended the easy, carpeted staircase, and saw the statue on the landing, and the third porter at the top doors, a familiar figure grown older, in the club livery, opening the door without haste or delay, and scanning the visitors as they passed in--Levin felt the old impression of the club come back in a rush, an impression of repose, comfort, and propriety.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon the car, which was drawn by four richly caparisoned zebus, stood a hideous statue with four arms, the body coloured a dull red, with haggard eyes, dishevelled hair, protruding tongue, and lips tinted with betel.
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：
-- The hand of Magua dropped from his mouth to his side, and though his eyes were fastened on the ground, his head was turned aside, his nostrils expanded, and his ears seemed even to stand more erect than usual, giving to him the appearance of a statue that was made to represent in-tense attention.
-- For an instant the moth-er stood, like a statue of despair, looking wildly down at the unseemly object, which had so lately nestled in her bosom and smiled in her face; and then she raised her eyes and countenance toward heaven, as if calling on God to curse the perpetrator of the foul deed.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the opposite wall, at the further end of the graveled walk, a green marble arch was painted once upon a time by a local artist, and in this semblance of a shrine a statue representing Cupid is installed; a Parisian Cupid, so blistered and disfigured that he looks like a candidate for one of the adjacent hospitals, and might suggest an allegory to lovers of symbolism.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sleary himself, a stout modern statue with a money-box at its elbow, in an ecclesiastical niche of early Gothic architecture, took the money.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw him, his arms spread out to their widest extent, his legs stretched apart, standing upright before an enormous pedestal, high enough and black enough to bear a gigantic statue of Pluto.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The post of honour and the post of shame, the general's station and the drummer's, a peer's statue in Westminster Abbey and a seaman's hammock in the bosom of the deep, the mitre and the workhouse, the woolsack and the gallows, the throne and the guillotine the travellers to all are on the great high road, but it has wonderful divergencies, and only Time shall show us whither each traveller is bound.
-- 'You must know my dear,' said Flora, 'but that I have no doubt you know already not only because I have already thrown it out in a general way but because I feel I carry it stamped in burning what's his names upon my brow that before I was introduced to the late Mr F. I had been engaged to Arthur Clennam Mr Clennam in public where reserve is necessary Arthur here we were all in all to one another it was the morning of life it was bliss it was frenzy it was everything else of that sort in the highest degree, when rent asunder we turned to stone in which capacity Arthur went to China and I became the statue bride of the late Mr F.'Flora, uttering these words in a deep voice, enjoyed herself immensely.
-- The statue bride, hardly pausing for breath, went on, with the greatest complacency, in a rambling manner sometimes incidental to flesh and blood.
-- He was telling her a long story (of robbers outside the walls being taken up by a stone statue of a Saint), to entertain her as he said to me when I came out, 'because he had a daughter of his own, though she was not so pretty.'
-- Mr Dorrit stood rooted to the carpet, a statue of mystification.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am glad of this, for though I should be very proud of a graceful statue made by her, I shall be infinitely prouder of a lovable daughter with a talent for making life beautiful to herself and others.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That intangible malignity which has been from the beginning; to whose dominion even the modern Christians ascribe one-half of the worlds; which the ancient Ophites of the east reverenced in their statue devil; Ahab did not fall down and worship it like them; but deliriously transferring its idea to the abhorred white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it.
-- Or, to the unread, unsophisticated Protestant of the Middle American States, why does the passing mention of a White Friar or a White Nun, evoke such an eyeless statue in the soul?
-- But few thoughts of Pan stirred Ahab's brain, as standing like an iron statue at his accustomed place beside the mizen rigging, with one nostril he unthinkingly snuffed the sugary musk from the Bashee isles (in whose sweet woods mild lovers must be walking), and with the other consciously inhaled the salt breath of the new found sea; that sea in which the hated White Whale must even then be swimming.
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