n.(名词)

1. 小说
2. 附律
3. 【罗马法】新法，罗马法律
4. 长篇故事
5. 原义短篇故事
6. 用短篇故事表示的文学作品（与the连用）

adj.(形容词)

1. 新的，崭新的
2. 新奇的，新颖的，与众不同的
3. 异常的
4. 珍奇的
5. 意外的

n.(名词)

1. [C](长篇)小说 a long story, not in poetry, dealing with invented people and events

adj.(形容词)

1. 新奇的,新颖的,新的 new and strange; of a kind not known before

Noun:

1. an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story

2. a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction;

   "his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels"
   "he burned all the novels"
   

Adjective:

1. original and of a kind not seen before;

   "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"
   

2. pleasantly new or different;

   "common sense of a most refreshing sort"
   

1.(长篇)小说
Anovel is a long written story about imaginary people and events.

e.g. ...anovel by Herman Hesse...
一部赫尔曼·黑塞的小说
e.g. ...historical novels set in the time of the Pharaohs.
以法老时代为背景的历史小说

2.新的;新奇的;新颖的
novel things are new and different from anything that has been done, experienced, or made before.

e.g. Protesters found anovel way of demonstrating against steeply rising oil prices...
抗议者找到了抗议油价飞涨的新办法。
e.g. The very idea of a sixth form college wasnovel in 1962.
第六学级学院在1962年还是新提法。

1. England is the birthplace of the modern novel.
   英国是近代小说发源地。
2. She had written a novel about the strikes.
   她写了一本关于罢工的小说。
3. I like to read the novels of Charles Dickens.
   我喜欢读查尔斯·狄更斯的小说。

用作定语～+ n.

1. He has a novel proposal of his own for meeting unemployment.
   他想出了一个应付失业问题的新建议。
2. The new car has a novel appearance.
   那辆新车外形新颖。
3. Flying gives people a novel sensation.
   飞行给人一种新奇感。

用作表语S+be+～

1. The design of this square is very novel.
   这个广场的设计很新颖。

S+be+～+ prep .-phrase

1. Snow is novel to people from tropical countries.
   对于来自热带国家的人来说,雪是很新奇的。

• I am afraid thy Brains are..disordered with Romances and novels.

  出自：Steele

• He was already in bed, with a novel shielding his face.

  出自：R. K. Narayan

• She usually re-read three Austen novels each winter.

  出自：E. J. Howard

• Much was novel to him, for he had little experience of the world.

  出自：G. Huntington

• Technologically, novel industries will rise to process the output of the oceans.

  出自：A. Toffler

• It was a novel and, I thought, an audacious approach.

  出自：K. Waterhouse

The novel is considered a brilliant performance.

这部小说被认为是出色的佳作。

I like reading novels in my spare time.

我喜欢闲暇时读小说。

This film is based on a novel by D.H.Lawrence.

这部影片是根据D.

It's a novel idea.

那是个异常的想法。

It's a novel experience.

那是一段新奇的经历。

The various elements of the novel fail to cohere.

这部小说的各部分之间缺乏连贯性。

The scriptwriter helped him to adapt his novel for the screen.

编剧帮助他将其所著小说改编成电影。

This adaptation perfectly captures the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut's novel.

这次改编非常好地抓住了库尔特·冯内古特小说的精髓。

'Dottie' is by far his best novel to date.

《多蒂》是他迄今为止最好的小说。

This stupendous novel keeps you gripped to the end.

这部小说精彩到让你想一口气读完。

She had begun to be a little bored with novel writing.

她开始对写小说有些厌倦了。

W. Somerset Maugham's novel still packs an emotional punch.

威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的小说仍具有强烈的情感冲击力。

He reverentially returned the novel to a glass-fronted bookcase.

他毕恭毕敬地把小说放回了正面装有玻璃的书架。

Recently, I dug out Barstow's novel and read it again.

最近，我把巴斯托的小说翻出来又读了一遍。

Her editors wanted her to cut out the poetry from her novel.

编辑们想让她把这首诗从她的小说中删去。

This novel is not science fiction, nor is it Gothic horror.

这本小说既非科幻小说亦非哥特派恐怖小说。

As a novel, Nineteen Eighty-four hardly ranks with the greats.

作为一部小说，《一九八四》很难被列为杰作。

The very idea of a sixth form college was novel in 1962.

第六学级学院在1962年还是新提法。

Critics may complain that the novel's central conceit is rather simplistic.

批评家们可能会认为小说的核心比喻过于简单。

Her latest novel is perfect for a lazy summer's afternoon reading.

在慵懒的夏日午后阅读她的最新小说最合适不过了。

n.(名词)

novel, romance

这两个词均可作“长篇小说”解。novel指以情节形式反映现实生活中存在的风俗、人物等的文学作品; romance指以浪漫手法描述昔时异地的、在现实生活中不太可能存在的离奇人物、风俗或冒险的故事。

adj.(形容词)

novel, fresh, new

这组词都有“新的”意思。其区别是：

1.new和novel既可指具体的事物,也可指抽象的事物,例如:

They built a new house.他们建造了一座新房子。

Exercise made a new man of him.锻炼使他变了样。

fresh多指具体的事物,表示一件事物原有的外貌、质量、活力等没有因时间或被使用过而改变; 用于抽象事物时,常指较客观地具有独特性的判断或思想; novel更强调别出心裁和与众不同,更具有新奇性和创造性,例如:

What a novel thing you are so curious about ?什么稀奇东西让你这么好奇?

2.new与old相对; fresh与stale相对。

new，fresh，novel，original，innovative

这些形容词均含“新的”之意。

new普通用词，与old相对，指最近的或创新的。

fresh指新鲜的、新做的，侧重创新。

novel侧重新事物的新奇和独特。

original强调独创性。

innovative强调富有创新和革新精神。

novel，romance，fiction，story，fable，tale

这些名词均含“小说、故事”之意。

novel指任何有情节、人物、对白的虚构长篇散文体故事。

romance系novel早期的代用词，泛指具有强烈神话和传奇色彩的故事，现指爱情故事。

fiction指部分或全部虚构的短篇、中篇、长篇小说，也指传奇故事，是小说的总称。

story指篇幅较短，常包含一系列情节或事件，口述或书写成文的故事。

fable指短小而寓有教育意义的虚构故事，故事的主人公多为拟人化的动物或非动物之类，也作传说解。

tale常可与story换用，指以事实为中心作叙述的故事，也指古代流传下来的传说故事或神话故事。