crop是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 作物， 庄稼； (谷类等的) 一熟收成； 一批， 大量，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if there's a good crop you shall have half a rouble for every acre."
-- The crop of clover coming up in the stubble was magnificent.
-- The crop was a splendid one, and bright, hot summer days had set in with short, dewy nights.
-- This year the peasants were doing all the mowing for a third of the hay crop, and the village elder had come now to announce that the hay had been cut, and that, fearing rain, they had invited the counting-house clerk over, had divided the crop in his presence, and had raked together eleven stacks as the owner's share.
-- We know what the land's like--first-rate, yet there's not much of a crop to boast of.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Turning upon me a lustreless eye, that reminded me of a long-forgotten blind old horse who once used to crop the grass, andtumble over the graves, in Blunderstone churchyard, he said hewas glad to see me: and then he gave me his hand; which I didn'tknow what to do with, as it did nothing for itself.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The door was tapped with the end of a crop or stick.
-- As soon as she had entered the field Troy saw her, and sticking his pitchfork into the ground and picking up his crop or cane, he came forward.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A mantle of ivy conceals the bricks and attracts the eyes of passers-by to an effect which is picturesque in Paris, for each of the walls is covered with trellised vines that yield a scanty dusty crop of fruit, and furnish besides a subject of conversation for Mme.
-- To begin with, the sight of the fair carefully arranged curls on the other's comely head had convinced him that his own crop was hideous; Maxime's boots, moreover, were elegant and spotless, while his own, in spite of all his care, bore some traces of his recent walk; and, finally, Maxime's overcoat fitted the outline of his figure gracefully, he looked like a pretty woman, while Eugene was wearing a black coat at half-past two.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett, like the rest of the County, could never get used to the way smallMrs. Tarleton bullied her grown sons and laid her riding crop on their backs if the occasion seemed to warrant it.
-- The horses, feeling slackreins, stretched down their necks to crop the tender spring grass, and the patient hounds lay down again in the soft reddust and looked up longingly at the chimney swallows circling in the gathering dusk.
-- They were completely fearless of wild horses, shooting affrays and theindignation of their neighbors, but they had a wholesome fear of their red-haired mother's outspoken remarks and theriding crop that she did not scruple to lay across their breeches.
-- His long white hair standing out behind him, he urged the horse forward with crop and loud cries.
-- The big horse reached the fence, gathered himself and soared over as effortlessly as a bird, his rider yellingenthusiastically, his crop beating the air, his white curls jerking out behind him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'll give it to you, Marmee, just to remember past glories by, for a crop is so comfortable I don't think I shall ever have a mane again.'
-- 'This unassuming style promotes study, that's why we adopt it,' returned Laurie, who certainly could not be ac-cused of vanity, having voluntarily sacrificed a handsome curly crop to the demand for quarterinch-long stubble.
-- The curly crop has length-ened into a thick coil, more becoming to the small head atop of the tall figure.
-- As John firmly believed that 'my wife' was equal to anything, and took a natural pride in her skill, he re-solved that she should be gratified, and their only crop of fruit laid by in a most pleasing form for winter use.
-- But mothers, sisters, and friends may help to make the crop a small one, and keep many tares from spoil-ing the harvest, by believing, and showing that they believe, in the possibility of loyalty to the virtues which make men manliest in good women's eyes.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Queequeg believed strongly in anointing his boat, and one morning not long after the German ship Jungfrau disappeared, took more than customary pains in that occupation; crawling under its bottom, where it hung over the side, and rubbing in the unctuousness as though diligently seeking to insure a crop of hair from the craft's bald keel.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finding my first seed did not grow, which I easily imagined was by the drought, I sought for a moister piece of ground to make another trial in, and I dug up a piece of ground near my new bower, and sowed the rest of my seed in February, a little before the vernal equinox; and this having the rainy months of March and April to water it, sprung up very pleasantly, and yielded a very good crop; but having part of the seed left only, and not daring to sow all that I had, I had but a small quantity at last, my whole crop not amounting to above half a peck of each kind.
-- I was now, in the months of November and December, expecting my crop of barley and rice.
-- The ground I had ma-nured and dug up for them was not great; for, as I observed, my seed of each was not above the quantity of half a peck, for I had lost one whole crop by sowing in the dry season.
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