high是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 高的, 高度的, 高级的, 高尚的ad. 高高地,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One or two, whom in a rare access of high spirits I had scarred rather badly, bore me a grudge; but it vented it-self chiefly behind my back, and at a safe distance from my missiles, in grimaces.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had hardly spoken when a shower of nuts and twigs spattered down through the branches; and they could hear coughings and howlings and angry jumpings high up in the air among the thin branches.
-- One day, a high summer flood washed him out of the burrow where he lived with his father and mother, and car-ried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch.
-- It was a large garden, only half cultivated, with bushes, as big as summer-houses, of Marshal Niel ros-es, lime and orange trees, clumps of bamboos, and thickets of high grass.
-- He jumped up in the air as high as he could go, and just un-der him whizzed by the head of Nagaina, Nag's wicked wife.
-- said Nag, lashing up as high as he could reach toward the nest in the thorn-bush.
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:
-- With the high plain that there inter-posed itself to the further passage of the water, commenced a portage of as many miles, which conducted the adven-turer to the banks of the Hudson, at a point where, with the usual obstructions of the rapids, or rifts, as they were then termed in the language of the country, the river be-came navigable to the tide.
-- The scouts departed; strong guards preceded and followed the lumbering vehicles that bore the baggage; and before the gray light of the morning was mellowed by the rays of the sun, the main body of the combatants wheeled into column, and left the encampment with a show of high military bearing, that served to drown the slumber-ing apprehensions of many a novice, who was now about to make his first essay in arms.
-- A large, civil cocked hat, like those worn by clergymen within the last thirty years, surmounted the whole, furnishing dignity to a good-natured and somewhat vacant countenance, that ap-parently needed such artificial aid, to support the gravity of some high and extraordinary trust.
-- For many minutes the intricacy of the route admit-ted of no further dialogue; after which they emerged from the broad border of underbrush which grew along the line of the highway, and entered under the high but dark arches of the forest.
-- At length they reached a point in the river where the roving eye of Heyward be-came riveted on a cluster of black objects, collected at a spot where the high bank threw a deeper shadow than usual on the dark waters.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world.
-- Some say that the place was bewitched by a High German doctor, during the early days of the settlement; others, that an old Indian chief, the prophet or wizard of his tribe, held his powwows there before the country was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson.
-- He had, however, a happy mixture of pliability and perseverance in his na-ture; he was in form and spirit like a supple-jack脙聞yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke; and though he bowed beneath the slightest pressure, yet, the moment it was away jerk! he was as erect, and carried his head as high as ever.
-- Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory- nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble field.
-- A gentle slope descends from it to a silver sheet of water, bordered by high trees, between which, peeps may be caught at the blue hills of the Hudson.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Chelsea and Bloomsbury have taken the place of Hampstead, Notting Hill Gate, and High Street, Kensington.
-- Miss Waterford, torn between the aestheticism of her early youth, when she used to go to parties in sage green, holding a daffodil, and the flippancy of her maturer years, which tended to high heels and Paris frocks, wore a new hat.
-- It put her in high spirits.
-- There was a high dado of white wood and a green paper on which were etchings by Whistler in neat black frames.
-- "That's what made me think it was high time to begin."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The balloon, which the wind still drove towards the southwest, had since daybreak gone a considerable distance, which might be reckoned by hundreds of miles, and a tolerably high land had, in fact, appeared in that direction.
-- Landing at the foot of a high wall of granite, he shook himself vigorously; and then, setting off running, soon disappeared behind a rocky point, which projected to nearly the height of the northern extremity of the islet.
-- This point abutted on the shore in a grotesque outline of high granite rocks.
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