prairie是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 大草原， 牧场，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：
-- They went from one prairie to another, always finding a well-spread table for their four-footed guests.
-- The ground had once more become a dead level, the last mountains of the Pampas were passed, and a long carpet of verdure unrolled itself over the monotonous prairie beneath the horses' tread.
-- The country looked like an immense prairie which faded into distance, and promised an easy walk.
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：
-- 'You would have thought the middle of that prairie a fairly safe place for a man to be private,' said he, 'but, by thunder, the whole country-side seems to have been out to see me do my wooing and a mighty poor wooing at that!
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was prairie freshness in the autumn day but Martin did not heed.
-- From the river bluffs the prairie stretches in exuberant rolling hills.
-- He was atop a pole and suddenly, for no clear cause, his eyes opened and he saw; as though he had just awakened he saw that the prairie was vast, that the sun was kindly on rough pasture and ripening wheat, on the old horses, the easy, broad-beamed, friendly horses, and on his red-faced jocose companions; he saw that the meadow larks were jubilant, and blackbirds shining by little pools, and with the living sun all life was living.
-- But week slipped into careless and robust week, and when he awoke in a stable, smelling the sweet hay and the horses and the lark-ringing prairie that crept near to the heart of these shanty towns, he cared only for the day's work, the day's hiking, westward toward the sunset.
-- He was instinctively headed westward, and to the west, toward the long prairie dusk, Leora was waiting.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Mr. Childers, thrusting his young friend from the room, rather in the prairie manner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's all very well to trample on it, sir,' John went on, scouring a very prairie of wild words, 'if a person can make up his mind to be guilty of the action.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He lives on the sea, as prairie cocks in the prairie; he hides among the waves, he climbs them as chamois hunters climb the Alps.
-- But those wild eyes met his, as the bloodshot eyes of the prairie wolves meet the eye of their leader, ere he rushes on at their head in the trail of the bison; but, alas!only to fall into the hidden snare of the Indian.
-- Much the same is it with the backwoodsman of the West, who with comparative indifference views an unbounded prairie sheeted with driven snow, no shadow of tree or twig to break the fixed trance of whiteness.
-- He goes and hunts for his oil, so as to be sure of its freshness and genuineness, even as the traveller on the prairie hunts up his own supper of game.
-- Whatever pale fears and forebodings some of them might have felt before; these were not only now kept out of sight through the growing awe of Ahab, but they were broken up, and on all sides routed, as timid prairie hares that scatter before the bounding bison.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Across wide stretches of flat, open prairie they could see lines of telegraph poles stalking across the fields toward the great city.
-- It connected Douglas Park with Washington or South Park, and was nothing more than a neatly MADE road, running due south for some five miles over an open, grassy prairie, and then due east over the same kind of prairie for the same distance.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So I took the gun and went up a piece into the woods, and was hunting around for some birds when I see a wild pig; hogs soon went wild in them bottoms after they had got away from the prairie farms.
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