crop是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 作物, 庄稼; (谷类等的) 一熟收成; 一批, 大量,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:
-- If excessive consumption threatens to exterminate the fish of a river, or ruin the early crop of sweet potatoes, these things are put under the protection of the taboo.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The real tree of life would then be rid of the most ghastly, heavy crop of Dead Sea Fruit, the intolerable burden of myriad simulacra of people, an infinite weight of mortal lies."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Then, if we plant this grain, at the first crop we shall reap eight hundred grains which at the second will produce six hundred and forty thousand; at the third, five hundred and twelve millions; at the fourth, more than four hundred thousands of millions!
-- "Yes, Pencroft, and if the next crop gives a proportionate yield, we shall have four thousand bushels."
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But now my crop promised very well, when on a sudden I found I was in danger of losing it all again by enemies of several sorts, which it was scarcely possible to keep from it; as, first, the goats, and wild creatures which I called hares, who, tasting the sweetness of the blade, lay in it night and day, as soon as it came up, and eat it so close, that it could get no time to shoot up into stalk.
-- But as the beasts ruined me before, while my corn was in the blade, so the birds were as likely to ruin me now, when it was in the ear; for, going along by the place to see how it throve, I saw my little crop surrounded with fowls, of I know not how many sorts, who stood, as it were, watching till I should be gone.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Stories began to crop up--those ever-enduring, droll stories which form the major portion of the conversation among American men under such circumstances.
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