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《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But at one point of the horizon a vague light suddenly appeared, which descended slowly in proportion as the cloud mounted to the zenith.
-- They could also see it throwing up from its air-holes to a great height a cloud of vapor, or of water, for, strange as it may appear, naturalists and whalers are not agreed on this subject.
-- A fragrant blue cloud soon arose, and from its depths a voice was heard repeating excitedly, "Tobacco!real tobacco!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- CHAPTER 9The child, in her confidence with Mrs Quilp, had but feebly described the sadness and sorrow of her thoughts, or the heaviness of the cloud which overhung her home, and cast dark shadows on its hearth.
-- Then came a turnpike; then fields again with trees and hay-stacks; then, a hill, and on the top of that, the traveller might stop, and looking back at old Saint Paul's looming through the smoke, its cross peeping above the cloud (if the day were clear), and glittering in the sun; and casting his eyes upon the Babel out of which it grew until he traced it down to the furthest outposts of the invading army of bricks and mortar whose station lay for the present nearly at his feet might feel at last that he was clear of London.
-- On every piece of waste or common ground, some small gambler drove his noisy trade, and bellowed to the idle passersby to stop and try their chance; the crowd grew thicker and more noisy; gilt gingerbread in blanket-stalls exposed its glories to the dust; and often a four-horse carriage, dashing by, obscured all objects in the gritty cloud it raised, and left them, stunned and blinded, far behind.
-- As he spoke, Daniel Quilp drew off and drank three small glassfuls of the raw spirit, and then with a horrible grimace took a great many pulls at his pipe, and swallowing the smoke, discharged it in a heavy cloud from his nose.
-- Now, the clustered roofs, and piles of buildings, trembling with the working of engines, and dimly resounding with their shrieks and throbbings; the tall chimneys vomiting forth a black vapour, which hung in a dense ill-favoured cloud above the housetops and filled the air with gloom; the clank of hammers beating upon iron, the roar of busy streets and noisy crowds, gradually augmenting until all the various sounds blended into one and none was distinguishable for itself, announced the termination of their journey.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a clatter of weapons; the convicts, removing their caps, began to make the sign of the cross, some with their left hands; the escorting crowd shouted something, the convicts shouted in answer; a great wailing arose among the women, and the party, surrounded by soldiers in white blouses moved forward, raising a cloud of dust with their fettered feet.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The rebounding, dancing hail hung in a little cloud over the machine, and drove along the ground like smoke.
-- Above me, in the intense blue of the summer sky, some faint brown shreds of cloud whirled into nothingness.
-- The sky kept very clear, except for a hazy cloud or so.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The sea was wet as wet could be,The sands were dry as dry.You could not see a cloud, becauseNo cloud was in the sky:No birds were flying over head There were no birds to fly.
-- 'What a thick black cloud that is!'
-- They were in such a cloud of dust, that at first Alice could not make out which was which: but she soon managed to distinguish the Unicorn by his horn.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the main that's the big un, with the cloud on it they usually calls the Spy-glass, by reason of a lookout they kept when they was in the anchorage cleaning, for it's there they cleaned their ships, sir, asking your pardon."
-- All at once there began to go a sort of bustle among the bulrushes; a wild duck flew up with a quack, another followed, and soon over the whole surface of the marsh a great cloud of birds hung screaming and circling in the air.
-- At the second trial, the aim was better, and the ball descended inside the stockade, scattering a cloud of sand but doing no further damage.
-- Suddenly, with a loud huzza, a little cloud of pirates leaped from the woods on the north side and ran straight on the stockade.
-- Up I got, was welcomed almost instantly by another cloud of spray, but this time stuck to my purpose and set myself, with all my strength and caution, to paddle after the unsteered Hispaniola.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Just then the moon appeared through the fringes of a thick cloud that the wind was driving to the east.
-- The mica dust from the shore, rising under our feet, flew like a cloud of sparks.
-- When the cloud dispersed, the cuttlefish had disappeared, and my unfortunate countryman with it.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The church bells were ringing a little way off, not a cloud was in the sky, the swans were like lilies on the water below, the peacocks walked with long, prancing steps across the shadow and into the sunshine of the grass.
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