streak是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 纹理， 条纹 vt. 裸奔, 飞驰，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：
-- Indeed, if the finding of Harry Grant had involved following a parallel across continents instead of oceans, the enterprise could not have been attempted; but the sea was there ready to carry the travelers from one country to another, and on the 6th of December, at the first streak of day, they saw a fresh mountain apparently emerging from the bosom of the waves.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a waterfall near us, such a lovely thin streak of water, like a thread but white and moving.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An almost vertical streak of smoke went up from it into the sky.
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：
-- In another moment the twang of the cord was heard, a white streak was seen glancing into the bushes, and the wounded buck plunged from the cover, to the very feet of his hidden en-emy.
-- It was, however, continued without any apparent consequences, until the moon had set, and a pale streak above the treetops, at the bend of the river a little below, an-nounced the approach of day.
-- You see the mist, major, that is rising above the island; you can't call it a fog, for it is more like a streak of thin cloud ' 'It is vapor from the water.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cold sharp interval between night and morning the distant streak of light widening and spreading, and turning from grey to white, and from white to yellow, and from yellow to burning red the presence of day, with all its cheerfulness and life men and horses at the plough birds in the trees and hedges, and boys in solitary fields, frightening them away with rattles.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently, as I went on, still gaining velocity, the palpitation of night and day merged into one continuous greyness; the sky took on a wonderful deepness of blue, a splendid luminous colour like that of early twilight; the jerking sun became a streak of fire, a brilliant arch, in space; the moon a fainter fluctuating band; and I could see nothing of the stars, save now and then a brighter circle flickering in the blue.
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