mask是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 面具, 口罩; vt. 遮蔽, 伪装，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：
-- It was evident from his physiognomy that he was a lively, intelligent man; he had not the crabbed expression of those grave individuals who never laugh on principle, and cover their emptiness with a mask of seriousness.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His dark eyes, glaring out of the white mask of his face, were full of horror and astonishment as he gazed from Sir Henry to me.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- According to the lines she quoted: 'From his face he never lifted That eternal mask of steel.''
-- 'I don't know what you are driving at; what mask do you mean?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, when his nephew, leaning an elbow on the table, covered his eyes thoughtfully and dejectedly with his hand, the fine mask looked at him sideways with a stronger con-centration of keenness, closeness, and dislike, than was 173comportable with its wearer's assumption of indifference.
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：
-- While one of these loiterers showed the red skin and wild accouterments of a native of the woods, the other exhibited, through the mask of his rude and nearly savage equipments, the brighter, though sun-burned and long-faced com-plexion of one who might claim descent from a European parentage.
-- It was impos-sible to discover the expression of his features through the grotesque mask of paint under which they were concealed, though Duncan fancied it was rather melancholy than sav-age.
-- Indeed, so very distinct and intelligible were the devices of the quadruped, that even the most experienced observer would have been at a loss to account for its actions, until the moment when the party entered the forest, when the whole would have been explained, by seeing the entire animal issue from the lodge, uncasing, by the act, the grave features of Chingachgook from his mask of fur.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he sat by her bed, his dark face was blank, and the wrinkles which deepened across that mask may have been sorrow, may have been fear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hiding the ravages of care witha sickly mask of mirth, I have not informed you, this evening, thatthere is no hope of the remittance!Under these circumstances, alikehumiliating to endure, humiliating to contemplate, andhumiliating to relate, I have discharged the pecuniary liabilitycontracted at this establishment, by giving a note of hand, madepayable fourteen days after date, at my residence, Pentonville,London.
-- Though I had long known that his servility wasfalse, and all his pretences knavish and hollow, I had had noadequate conception of the extent of his hypocrisy, until I now sawhim with his mask off.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba it certainly was, and she had by this time done the trick she could do so well in crises not of love, namely, mask a surprise by coolness of manner.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then something like a well-trained mask came down over his face and he smiled gallantly.
-- The mask was gone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You had not your little wits sharpened by their intriguing against you, suppressed and defenceless, under the mask of sympathy and pity and what not that is soft and soothing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, my fellow-men, behold of what a traitor in the camp of those great spirits who are enrolled upon the holy scroll of Justice and of Union, is appropriately capable!Oh, my prostrate friends, with the galling yoke of tyrants on your necks and the iron foot of despotism treading down your fallen forms into the dust of the earth, upon which right glad would your oppressors be to see you creeping on your bellies all the days of your lives, like the serpent in the garden oh, my brothers, and shall I as a man not add, my sisters too, what do you say, now, of Stephen Blackpool, with a slight stoop in his shoulders and about five foot seven in height, as set forth in this degrading and disgusting document, this blighting bill, this pernicious placard, this abominable advertisement; and with what majesty of denouncement will you crush the viper, who would bring this stain and shame upon the God-like race that happily has cast him out for ever!Yes, my compatriots, happily cast him out and sent him forth!For you remember how he stood here before you on this platform; you remember how, face to face and foot to foot, I pursued him through all his intricate windings; you remember how he sneaked and slunk, and sidled, and splitted of straws, until, with not an inch of ground to which to cling, I hurled him out from amongst us: an object for the undying finger of scorn to point at, and for the avenging fire of every free and thinking mind to scorch and scar!And now, my friends my labouring friends, for I rejoice and triumph in that stigma my friends whose hard but honest beds are made in toil, and whose scanty but independent pots are boiled in hardship; and now, I say, my friends, what appellation has that dastard craven taken to himself, when, with the mask torn from his features, he stands before us in all his native deformity, a What?
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：
-- Connie wondered sometimes if it were a sort of mask to disarm opposition, because it was almost too fixed.
-- On the far side of his supreme prostitution to the bitch-goddess he seemed pure, pure as an African ivory mask that dreams impurity into purity, in its ivory curves and planes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mask them all, and the mere turn of the head would have shown an unsubduable nature.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But neither bent the knee, for the young bridegroom replied in a tone that startled all listeners as the mask fell, disclosing the noble face of Ferdinand Devereux, the artist lover, and leaning on the breast where now flashed the star of an English earl was the lovely Viola, radiant with joy and beauty.
-- So I dressed up as Mrs. Malaprop, and sailed in with a mask on.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw that under the mask of these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the Vineyard.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were the faces of friends, and foes, and of many that had been almost strangers peering intrusively from the crowd; there were the faces of young and blooming girls that were now old women; there were faces that the grave had changed and closed upon, but which the mind, superior to its power, still dressed in their old freshness and beauty, calling back the lustre of the eyes, the brightness of the smile, the beaming of the soul through its mask of clay, and whispering of beauty beyond the tomb, changed but to be heightened, and taken from earth only to be set up as a light, to shed a soft and gentle glow upon the path to Heaven.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Iron Mask always done that, and it's a blame' good way, too.'
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