rail是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 栏杆; 横杆; vi. 责骂，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 came by rail to Balloch, and walked the rest of the way to Luss."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He may rail at Christmas till he dies, but he can't help thinking better of it I defy him if he finds me going there, in good temper, year after year, and saying Uncle Scrooge, how are you.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And what was stranger, even to his heavy intelligence, on the bedroom chair and along the rail of the bed were scattered the garments, the only garments so far as he knew, and the bandages of their guest.
-- "Janny," he said, over the rail of the cellar steps, "'tas the truth what Henfrey sez.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here is the estimate made by the Daily Telegraph:From London to Suez via Mont Cenis andBrindisi, by rail and steamboats ................. 7 daysFrom Suez to Bombay, by steamer .................... 13 "From Bombay to Calcutta, by rail ................... 3 "From Calcutta to Hong Kong, by steamer ............. 13 "From Hong Kong to Yokohama (Japan), by steamer ..... 6 "From Yokohama to San Francisco, by steamer ......... 22 "From San Francisco to New York, by rail ............. 7 "From New York to London, by steamer and rail ........ 9 " -------Total ............................................ 80 days."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As they entered the bar of the Grand Hotel, with its paintings of lovely but absent-minded ladies, its mirrors, its thick marble rail along a mahogany bar, he blurted: "Well, I got mine, too.
-- When they stood together at the rail and he chanted in his ludicrous up-and-down Swedish sing- song that it was a fine evening, she remarked, "Well, Mr. Roughneck, have you been up to something smart again today?
-- White and black, Hindu and Chink and Caribbee, they crowded the wharf, shouting, waving scarfs, trying not to weep at the feeble piping of what was left of the Blackwater Gold Medal Band; and as the steamer, the St. Ia of the McGurk Line, was warped out, with her captain at the rail of the bridge, very straight, saluting them with a flourish but his eyes so wet that he could not see the harbor, they felt that they were no longer jailed lepers but a part of the free world.
-- But on a night when he stood at the rail for hours, he admitted that he was afraid of their criticism, and afraid because his experiment had so many loopholes.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Raskolnikov walked straight to X Bridge, stood in the middle, and leaning both elbows on the rail stared into the distance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My working placewas established in a corner of the warehouse, where Mr. Quinioncould see me, when he chose to stand up on the bottom rail of his 151stool in the counting-house, and look at me through a windowabove the desk.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He backed his big red horse and then, putting spurs to his side, lifted him easily over the split rail fence into thesoft field of Gerald O'Hara's plantation.
-- Across the road would be new rail fences, inclosing fat cattle andblooded horses, and the red earth that rolled down the hillside to the rich river bottom land would gleam white aseiderdown in the sun cotton; acres and acres of cotton!The fortunes of the O'Haras would rise again.
-- Thin as a rail and delicate enough for the wind to blow away and no spiritat all.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On every rail and gate, wet lay clammy, and the marsh mist was so thick, that the wooden finger on the post directing people to our village--a direction which they never accepted, for they never came there--was invisible to me until I was quite close under it.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cease, then, this brawling, and do not draw your sword; rail at him if you will, and your railing will not be vain, for I tell you and it shall surely be that you shall hereafter receive gifts three times as splendid by reason of this present insult.
-- With this he lashed his goodly steeds, and when they felt the whip they drew the chariot full speed among the Achaeans and Trojans, over the bodies and shields of those that had fallen: the axle was bespattered with blood, and the rail round the car was covered with splashes both from the horses' hoofs and from the tyres of the wheels.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They went fairly quickly down the slope, the man with his hand on the rail of the chair, steadying it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How she did it, she never knew, but for the next few min-utes she worked as if possessed, blindly obeying Laurie, who was quite self-possessed, and lying flat, held Amy up by his arm and hockey stick till Jo dragged a rail from the fence, and together they got the child out, more frightened than hurt.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then rapidly pulling back towards the Pequod, and seeing Ahab leaning over the quarter-deck rail awaiting his report, he moulded his two hands into a trumpet and shouted "No, Sir!No!"
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had often attempted to do it before, but it was a subject on which Mrs. Bennet was beyond the reach of reason, and she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a picture of a young woman in a long white gown, standing on the rail of a bridge all ready to jump off, with her hair all down her back, and looking up to the moon, with the tears run-ning down her face, and she had two arms folded across her breast, and two arms stretched out in front, and two more reaching up towards the moon and the idea was to see which pair would look best, and then scratch out all the other arms; but, as I was saying, she died before she got her mind made up, and now they kept this picture over the head of the bed in her room, and every time her birthday come they hung flowers on it.
-- A rail fence round a two-acre yard; a stile made out of logs sawed off and up-ended in steps, like barrels of a different length, to climb over the fence with, and for the women to stand on when they are going to jump on to a horse; some sickly grass-patches in the big yard, but mostly it was bare and smooth, like an old hat with the nap rubbed off; big double log-house for the white folks hewed logs, with the chinks stopped up with mud or mortar, and these mud-stripes been whitewashed some time or another; round-log kitchen, with a big broad, open but roofed passage joining it to the house; log smoke- house back of the kitchen; three little log nigger-cabins in a row t'other side the smoke-house; one little hut all by itself away down against the back fence, and some outbuildings down a piece the other side; ash- hopper and big kettle to bile soap in by the little hut; bench by the kitchen door, with bucket of water and a gourd; hound asleep there in the sun; more hounds asleep round about; about three shade trees away off in a corner; some currant bushes and gooseberry bushes in one place by the fence; outside of the fence a gar-den and a watermelon patch; then the cotton fields begins, and after the fields the woods.
-- On the road Tom he told me all about how it was reck-oned I was murdered, and how pap disappeared pretty soon, and didn't come back no more, and what a stir there was when Jim run away; and I told Tom all about our Royal Nonesuch rapscallions, and as much of the raft voyage as I had time to; and as we struck into the town and up through the here comes a raging rush of people with torches, and an awful whooping and yelling, and banging tin pans and blow- ing horns; and we jumped to one side to let them go by; and as they went by I see they had the king and the duke astraddle of a rail that is, I knowed it WAS the king and the duke, though they was all over tar and feathers, and didn't look like nothing in the world that was human just looked like a couple of monstrous big soldier-plumes.
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