clothes是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 衣服(虽为复数, 亦不可数),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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He lifted himself kneeled beside her a moment, kissed the inner side of her thighs, then drew down her skirts, but-toning his own clothes unthinking, not even turning aside, in the faint, faint light from the lantern.
-- Anyhow just when I was more than fed up with that other girl, when I was twenty-one, back comes Bertha, with airs and graces and smart clothes and a sort of bloom on her: a sort of sen-sual bloom that you'd see sometimes on a woman, or on a trolly.
-- Take yer clothes off an' look at yourselves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All of them wore the cast-off clothes of other men and women, were made up of patches and pieces of other people's individuality, and had no sartorial existence of their own proper.
-- It was a hideous little street of dead wall, stables, and dunghills, with lofts over coach-houses inhabited by coachmen's families, who had a passion for drying clothes and decorating their window-sills with miniature turnpike-gates.
-- With an old sheepskin knapsack at his back, and a rough, unbarked stick cut out of some wood in his hand; miry, footsore, his shoes and gaiters trodden out, his hair and beard untrimmed; the cloak he carried over his shoulder, and the clothes he wore, sodden with wet; limping along in pain and difficulty; he looked as if the clouds were hurrying from him, as if the wail of the wind and the shuddering of the grass were directed against him, as if the low mysterious plashing of the water murmured at him, as if the fitful autumn night were disturbed by him.
-- The Patriarchs were not dressed in bottle-green broadcloth, and yet his clothes looked patriarchal.
-- Do me the favour to add that I shall be happy to wait on Mrs Clennam, to offer my personal compliments, and to apologise for having occasioned any agitation in this tranquil corner, if it should suit her convenience to endure the presence of a stranger for a few minutes, after he shall have changed his wet clothes and fortified himself with something to eat and drink.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There never was such a woman for givin' away vittles and drink, clothes and firin',' replied Hannah, who had lived with the family since Meg was born, and was considered by them all more as a friend than a servant.
-- 'That's loving our neighbor better than ourselves, and I like it,' said Meg, as they set out their presents while their mother was upstairs collecting clothes for the poor Hum-mels.
-- This cave was made with a clothes horse for a roof, bureaus for walls, and in it was a small fur-nace in full blast, with a black pot on it and an old witch bending over it.
-- 'I wonder if I shall ever be happy enough to have real lace on my clothes and bows on my caps?'
-- She very soon discovered that there is a charm about fine clothes which attracts a certain class of people and secures their re-spect.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "You gettee in," he added, motioning to me with his tomahawk, and throwing the clothes to one side.
-- Yes, we became very wakeful; so much so that our recumbent position began to grow wearisome, and by little and little we found ourselves sitting up; the clothes well tucked around us, leaning against the head-board with our four knees drawn up close together, and our two noses bending over them, as if our kneepans were warming-pans.
-- Rising from a little cabin-boy in short clothes of the drabbest drab, to a harpooneer in a broad shad-bellied waistcoat; from that becoming boat-header, chief-mate, and captain, and finally a ship owner; Bildad, as I hinted before, had concluded his adventurous career by wholly retiring from active life at the goodly age of sixty, and dedicating his remaining days to the quiet receiving of his well-earned income.
-- Didn't that Dough-Boy, the steward, tell me that of a morning he always finds the old man's hammock clothes all rumpled and tumbled, and the sheets down at the foot, and the coverlid almost tied into knots, and the pillow a sort of frightful hot, as though a baked brick had been on it?
-- The clothes that the night had wet, the next day's sunshine dried upon him; and so, day after day, and night after night; he went no more beneath the planks; whatever he wanted from the cabin that thing he sent for.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was rather expensive at first, in consequence of the increase in the undertaker's bill, and the necessity of taking in the clothes of all the paupers, which fluttered loosely on their wasted, shrunken forms, after a week or two's gruel.
-- Oliver's clothes had been torn in the beating he had received; his face was bruised and scratched; and his hair scattered over his forehead.
-- The Dodger had a vicious propensity, too, of pulling the caps from the heads of small boys and tossing them down areas; while Charley Bates exhibited some very loose notions concerning the rights of property, by pilfering divers apples and onions from the stalls at the kennel sides, and thrusting them into pockets which were so surprisingly capacious, that they seemed to undermine his whole suit of clothes in every direction.
-- He was no sooner strong enough to put his clothes on, properly, than Mr. Brownlow caused a complete new suit, and a new cap, and a new pair of shoes, to be provided for him.
-- The boy has a new suit of clothes on his back, a set of valuable books under his arm, and a five-pound note in his pocket.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I would advise you merely to put on whatever of your clothes is superior to the rest there is no occasion for anything more.
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