cloud是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 云(状物) ； 遮暗物， 阴影； 一大群，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：
-- Not a cloud visible either above or below.
-- The wave was speeding on with the rapidity of a racehorse, and the travelers fled before it like a cloud before a storm-wind.
-- A thick dark bar of cloud was rising higher and higher, and by degrees extinguishing the stars.
-- Evidently motive power lay in the cloud itself, for there was not a breath of wind.
-- The rain had given place to light mists, which a breath of wind dispersed, and the heavy masses of cloud had separated, and now streaked the sky in long bands.
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：
-- The cloud was within fifty yards of where we lay, and we glared at it, all three, uncertain what horror was about to break from the heart of it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not at all; Fortune, who lets whole populations die of hunger, showered all her gifts at once upon the little aristocrat, like Kryloff's Cloud which passes over an arid plain and empties itself into the sea.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This he flung to his comrades among the Achaeans, and was again spring-ing upon Alexandrus to run him through with a spear, but Venus snatched him up in a moment (as a god can do), hid him under a cloud of darkness, and conveyed him to his own bedchamber.
-- Idaeus did not dare to bestride his broth- er's body, but sprang from the chariot and took to flight, or he would have shared his brother's fate; whereon Vulcan saved him by wrapping him in a cloud of darkness, that his old father might not be utterly overwhelmed with grief; but the son of Tydeus drove off with the horses, and bade his followers take them to the ships.
-- It is possible that he may be a god, but if he is the man I say he is, he is not making all this havoc without heaven's help, but has some god by his side who is shrouded in a cloud of darkness, and who turned my arrow aside when it had hit him.
-- Venus screamed aloud, and let her son fall, but Phoebus Apollo caught him in his arms, and hid him in a cloud of darkness, lest some Danaan should drive a spear into his breast and kill him; and Diomed shouted out as he left her, 'Daughter of Jove, leave war and battle alone, can you not be contented with beguiling silly women?
-- Juno lashed the horses on, and the gates of heaven bel-lowed as they flew open of their own accord gates over which the Hours preside, in whose hands are Heaven and Olympus, either to open the dense cloud that hides them, or to close it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At most times it lies far in the back of my mind, a mere distant cloud, a memory, and a faint dis-trust; but there are times when the little cloud spreads until it obscures the whole sky.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now there is a cloud coming to cover that moon.
-- If it were only a big enough cloud I might try to run away in the darkness.
-- That same cloud was being watched by two good friends in the ruined ditch below the city wall, for Bagheera and Kaa, knowing well how dangerous the Monkey-People were in large numbers, did not wish to run any risks.
-- When that cloud covers the moon I shall go to the terrace.
-- The cloud hid the moon, and as Mow-gli wondered what would come next he heard Bagheera's light feet on the terrace.
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：
-- 'Would you set a cloud to chase the wind?'
-- At the moment when the victors found them-selves unoccupied, the spot where these experienced and desperate combatants lay could only be distinguished by a cloud of dust and leaves, which moved from the center of the little plain toward its boundary, as if raised by the pas-sage of a whirlwind.
-- A single, solitary, snow-white cloud floated above the valley, and marked the spot beneath which lay the silent pool of the 'bloody pond.'
-- cried Duncan, suffering the cloud to be chased from his countenance by a smile of open pleasure.
-- At that mo-ment an enormous cloud seemed to pass suddenly above their heads, and, looking upward, they discovered that they stood beneath the wide folds of the standard of France.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 7 Gideon Spilett was standing motionless on the shore, his arms crossed, gazing over the sea, the horizon of which was lost towards the east in a thick black cloud which was spreading rapidly towards the zenith.
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