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。
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All were strangely shaped, and the Spy-glass, which was by three or four hundred feet the tallest on the island, was likewise the strangest in configuration, running up sheer from almost every side and then suddenly cut off at the top like a pedestal to put a statue on.
-- I had been saved by being prompt; the dirk had struck not half a foot below me as I pursued my upward flight; and there stood Israel Hands with his mouth open and his face upturned to mine, a perfect statue of surprise and disappointment.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Each had enough decorum to suspend further hostilities: Heathcliff placed his f ists, out of temptation, in his pockets; Mrs. Heathcliff curled her lip, and walked to a seat far off, where she kept her word by playing the part of a statue during the remainder of my stay.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an empty niche from which some old statue had fallen or been carried away hundreds of years ago, and she was thinking what strange people it must have looked down upon when it stood there, and how many hard struggles might have taken place, and how many murders might have been done, upon that silent spot, when there suddenly emerged from the black shade of the arch, a man.
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：
-- In every other re-spect, the captive seemed at liberty; still he was excluded from all participation in the discourse, and possessed much more of the air of some finely molded statue than a man having life and volition.
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