velvet是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 丝绒， 天鹅绒a. 丝绒制的， 柔软的，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the wood and the sea sang a song of rejoicing, and his heart sang with the rest: all nature was a vast holy church, in which the trees and the buoyant clouds were the pillars, flowers and grass the velvet carpeting, and heaven itself the large cupo-la.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instantly flinging a fresh cloth over the round table under the bronze chandelier, though it already had a table cloth on it, he pushed up velvet chairs, and came to a standstill before Stepan Arkadyevitch with a napkin and a bill of fare in his hands, awaiting his commands.
-- The black velvet of her locket nestled with special softness round her neck.
-- That velvet was delicious; at home, looking at her neck in the looking glass, Kitty had felt that that velvet was speaking.
-- About all the rest there might be a doubt, but the velvet was delicious.
-- There, too, she descried Stiva, and there she saw the exquisite figure and head of Anna in a black velvet gown.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had worn the threadbare top-coat of a poor professor, yet Martin remembered him as wrapped in a black velvet cape with a silver star arrogant on his breast.
-- Suddenly Martin hated the blue-and-gold velvet of the car, the cunningly hid gold box of cigarettes, all this soft and smothering prison.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I look from Mr. Chillip, in hisSunday neckcloth, to the pulpit; and think what a good place itwould be to play in, and what a castle it would make, with anotherboy coming up the stairs to attack it, and having the velvet cushionwith the tassels thrown down on his head.
-- There was a red velvet footstool in the bestparlour, on which my mother had painted a nosegay.
-- 'If I was ever to be a lady, I'd give him a sky-blue coatwith diamond buttons, nankeen trousers, a red velvet waistcoat, acocked hat, a large gold watch, a silver pipe, and a box of money.'
-- Again, MissMurdstone, in a black velvet gown, that looks as if it had beenmade out of a pall, follows close upon me; then my mother; thenher husband.
-- He told me he washappy when I had paid my homage to Mrs. Waterbrook, presentedme, with much ceremony, to a very awful lady in a black velvetdress, and a great black velvet hat, whom I remember as lookinglike a near relation of Hamlet's- say his aunt.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba's beauty belonging rather to the demonian than to the angelic school, she never looked so well as when she was angry and particularly when the effect was heightened by a rather dashing velvet dress, carefully put on before a glass.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The green plaid taffeta, frothing withflounces and each flounce edged in green velvet ribbon, was most becoming, in fact her favorite dress, for it darkenedher eyes to emerald.
-- They were a pretty, buxom quartette, so crammed into the carriage that their hoops and flouncesoverlapped and their parasols nudged and bumped together above their wide leghorn sun hats, crowned with roses anddangling with black velvet chin ribbons.
-- The heavy furniture rose up at her in the half-light, high-backed chairs with deep seats and wide arms, made for the tall Wilkes men, squatty soft chairs of velvet with velvethassocks before them for the girls.
-- Somehow she found that she was sitting on the low velvet chair and Ashley, on the hassock at her feet, washolding both her hands in his, in a hard grip.
-- It was full of girls, girls who floated in butterfly bright dresses, hooped outenormously, lace pantalets peeping from beneath; round little white shoulders bare, and faintest traces of soft littlebosoms showing above lace flounces; lace shawls carelessly hanging from arms; fans spangled and painted, fans ofswan's-down and peacock feathers, dangling at wrists by tiny velvet ribbons; girls with masses of golden curls abouttheir necks and fringed gold earbobs that tossed and danced with their dancing curls.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as the great black velvet pall outside my little window was shot with gray, I got up and went downstairs; every board upon the way, and every crack in every board calling after me, "Stop thief!"
-- "She was sitting," I answered, "in a black velvet coach."
-- Mr. Pumblechook and Mrs. Joe stared at one another--as they well might--and both repeated, "In a black velvet coach?"
-- Under the circumstances, I felt that Joe could hardly fail to discern in the pale young gentleman, an appropriate passenger to be put into the black velvet coach; therefore, I said nothing of him.
-- The remains of my poor sister had been brought round by the kitchen door, and, it being a point of Undertaking ceremony that the six bearers must be stifled and blinded under a horrible black velvet housing with a white border, the whole looked like a blind monster with twelve human legs, shuffling and blundering along, under the guidance of two keepers,--the postboy and his comrade.
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