shroud是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 遮蔽物，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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer lay down to rest on the day of M. Goriot's installation, her heart, like a larded partridge, sweltered before the fire of a burning desire to shake off the shroud of Vauquer and rise again as Goriot.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Delighted and surprised, I em-braced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For she rose up in the chair, in her shroud of a dress, and struck at the air as if she would as soon have struck herself against the wall and fallen dead.
-- She's all in white,' he says, 'wi' white flowers in her hair, and she's awful mad, and she's got a shroud hanging over her arm, and she says she'll put it on me at five in the morning.'
-- 'She's a shaking the shroud at me!Don't you see her?
-- "He rested pretty quiet till it might want a few minutes of five, and then he starts up with a scream, and screams out, 'Here she is!She's got the shroud again.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The milk-man, baker, grocer, and butcher inquired how she did, poor Mrs. Hummel came to beg pardon for her thoughtlessness and to get a shroud for Minna, the neighbors sent all sorts of comforts and good wishes, and even those who knew her best were surprised to find how many friends shy little Beth had made.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And from that pallor of the dead, we borrow the expressive hue of the shroud in which we wrap them.
-- And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues every stately or lovely emblazoning the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea, and the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear coloured and colouring glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him.
-- Dost thou spin thy own shroud out of thyself?
-- Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had called them into view, and it was not easy to replace the shroud that had so long concealed them.
-- The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shows in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven, and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.
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 lid was shoved along about a foot, show- ing the dead man's face down in there, with a wet cloth over it, and his shroud on.
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