wheat是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 小麦,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:
-- It was nearly nightfall before the party returned to the yacht, chattering and admiring the natural riches displayed on all sides, for even close to the streets of the capital, fields of wheat and maize were waving, and crops of vegetables, imported forty years before; and in the environs of the village, herds of cattle and sheep were feeding.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It seems to me that everything is ruled by mea-sure in our century; all men are clamouring for their rights; 'a measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of bar-ley for a penny.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And now as a band of reapers mow swathes of wheat or barley upon a rich man's land, and the sheaves fall thick be-fore them, even so did the Trojans and Achaeans fall upon one another; they were in no mood for yielding but fought like wolves, and neither side got the better of the other.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then they went inland to the holluschickie grounds and rolled up and down in the new wild wheat and told stories of what they had done while they had been at sea.
-- The Beaches of Lukannon the winter wheat so tall The dripping, crinkled lichens, and the sea-fog drenching all!
-- Wheat he gave to rich folk, millet to the poor, Broken scraps for holy men that beg from door to door; Battle to the tiger, carrion to the kite, And rags and bones to wicked wolves without the wall at night.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Well, my boy," replied the engineer, "this is a valuable discovery, since our wheat harvest is not yet ripe; I hope that you are not mistaken!"
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He moved to the other side, and drawing in the fresh, humid air and the odor of the wheat coming from the parched ground, he looked on the passing gardens, forests; the rye fields just turning yellow, the emerald streaks of oats, and the furrows of the dark-green, flowering potato.
-- Having bought eggs, buns, fish and fresh wheat bread, Maslova packed them away in a bag while Maria Pablovna settled for the food, when among the prisoners there arose a commotion.
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