flexible是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 易弯曲的, 柔软的; 灵活的，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：
-- Between Mount Ikirangi which was left to the right, and Mount Hardy whose summit rose on the left to a height of 3,700 feet, the journey was very trying; for about ten miles the bush was a tangle of "supple-jack," a kind of flexible rope, appropriately called "stifling-creeper," that caught the feet at every step.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER IX MR. THOMAS MARVEL You must picture Mr. Thomas Marvel as a person of copious, flexible visage, a nose of cylindrical protrusion, a liquorish, ample, fluctuating mouth, and a beard of bristling eccentricity.
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 travelers anxiously regarded the upright, flexible figure of the young Mohican, graceful and unrestrained in the at-titudes and movements of nature.
-- The natural taste and true ear of David governed and modified the sounds to suit the confined cavern, every crevice and cranny of which was filled with the thrilling notes of their flexible voices.
-- At the next moment, the breech of Hawkeye's rifle fell on the naked head of his adversary, whose muscles appeared to wither under the shock, as he sank from the arms of Dun-can, flexible and motionless.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now the Institute is organized on the most flexible lines.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the bank was not without some obstacles: here, the flexible branches of the trees bent level with the current; there, creepers and thorns which they had to break down with their sticks.
-- The sailor having strung the couroucous like larks on flexible twigs, they then continued their exploration.
-- Herbert carried a plumb-line which Harding had given him, that is to say, a simple stone fastened to the end of a flexible fiber.
-- Pencroft had kept his promise, and a light boat, the shell of which was joined together by the flexible twigs of the crejimba, had been constructed in five days.
-- "I may say, Pencroft, that the bark of the bamboo, cut into flexible laths, is used for making baskets; that this bark, mashed into a paste, is used for the manufacture of Chinese paper; that the stalks furnish, according to their size, canes and pipes and are used for conducting water; that large bamboos make excellent material for building, being light and strong, and being never attacked by insects.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So saying, Mr Quilp put his hat on and took himself off, and Mrs Quilp, who was afflicted beyond measure by the recollection of the part she had just acted, shut herself up in her chamber, and smothering her head in the bed-clothes bemoaned her fault more bitterly than many less tender-hearted persons would have mourned a much greater offence; for, in the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article, which will bear a deal of stretching and adapt itself to a great variety of circumstances.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The river slid along noiselessly as a shade, the swelling reeds and sedge forming a flexible palisade upon its moist brink.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a sonorous, harmonious, and flexible dialect, the vowels seeming to admit of very varied accentuation.
-- Amongst them glided sea-elephants, a kind of seal, with short, flexible trunks.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt his limbs growing fuller and flexible with life, his body gained an unknown strength.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its whole body covered by a carapace or shell, and its neck, as flexible as that of a swan, rose more than thirty feet above the waves, a tower of animated flesh!
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They viciously snapped, not only at each other's disembowelments, but like flexible bows, bent round, and bit their own; till those entrails seemed swallowed over and over again by the same mouth, to be oppositely voided by the gaping wound.
-- True, from the unmarred dead body of the whale, you may scrape off with your hand an infinitely thin, transparent substance, somewhat resembling the thinnest shreds of isinglass, only it is almost as flexible and soft as satin; that is, previous to being dried, when it not only contracts and thickens, but becomes rather hard and brittle.
-- So that tormented to madness, he was now churning through the water, violently flailing with his flexible tail, and tossing the keen spade about him, wounding and murdering his own comrades.
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