river是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 河流，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he got out of the house, the air was cold and sad, the dull sky overcast, the river dark and dim, the whole scene like a lifeless desert.
-- The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran into death according to rule, time and tide waited for no man, the rats were sleeping close together in their dark holes again, the Fancy Ball was lighted up at supper, all things ran their course.
-- The officiating undertakers made some protest against these changes in the ceremonies; but, the river being alarm-ingly near, and several voices remarking on the efficacy of cold immersion in bringing refractory members of the profession to reason, the protest was faint and brief.
-- If you're a religious woman, give me a irreligious one!You have no more nat'ral sense of duty than the bed of this here Thames river has of a pile, and similarly it must be knocked into you.'
-- On his coming out, the concourse made at him anew, weeping, embracing, and shouting, all by turns and all together, until the very tide of the river on the bank of which the mad scene was acted, seemed to run mad, like the people on the shore.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nobody knew where he was; many sad tears were shed, and little Gerda wept long and bitterly; at last she said he must be dead; that he had been drowned in the river which flowed close to the town.
-- 'I'll put on my red shoes,' said she, one morning; 'Kay has never seen them, and then I'll go down to the river and 90 Andersen's Fairy Talesask there.'
-- 'Perhaps the river will carry me to little Kay,' said she; and then she grew less sad.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the bushes about the river had been cut down, and the river itself, not visible before, now gleaming like steel in its bends, and the moving, ascending peasants, and the sharp wall of grass of the unmown part of the meadow, and the hawks hovering over the stripped meadow--all was perfectly new.
-- In front of him, in the bend of the river beyond the marsh, moved a bright-colored line of peasant women, and the scattered hay was being rapidly formed into gray winding rows over the pale green stubble.
-- "No, it's too hot; better stroll about the garden and have a row in the boat, show Darya Alexandrovna the river banks."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general route of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway is as follows: Leaving Bombay, it passes through Salcette, crossing to the continent opposite Tannah, goes over the chain of the Western Ghauts, runs thence north-east as far as Burhampoor, skirts the nearly independent territory of Bundelcund, ascends to Allahabad, turns thence eastwardly, meeting the Ganges at Benares, then departs from the river a little, and, descending south-eastward by Burdivan and the French town of Chandernagor, has its terminus at Calcutta.
-- The travellers made a hasty breakfast and started off for Assurghur, after skirting for a little the banks of the small river Tapty, which empties into the Gulf of Cambray, near Surat.
-- On leaving Omaha, it passes along the left bank of the Platte River as far as the junction of its northern branch, follows its southern branch, crosses the Laramie territory and the Wahsatch Mountains, turns the Great Salt Lake, and reaches Salt Lake City, the Mormon capital, plunges into the Tuilla Valley, across the American Desert, Cedar and Humboldt Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and descends, via Sacramento, to the Pacific its grade, even on the Rocky Mountains, never exceeding one hundred and twelve feet to the mile.
-- From this point the road, running along Humboldt River, passed northward for several miles by its banks; then it turned eastward, and kept by the river until it reached the Humboldt Range, nearly at the extreme eastern limit of Nevada.
-- The next day, 7th December, they stopped for a quarter of an hour at Green River station.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her mother they had buried near the Monongahela--the girl herself had heaped with torn sods the grave beside the river of the beautiful name.
-- From the river bluffs the prairie stretches in exuberant rolling hills.
-- They paused on the bluff, looking down at the muddy Chaloosa, a springtime Western river wild with floating branches.
-- And a month after, during the Chaloosa River flood, he worked for seventy-six hours, with half-hours of sleep in the ambulance or on a police-station table.
-- "Dr. M. Arrowsmith of Wheatsylvania is being congratulated, we are informed by our valued pioneer local physician, Dr. Adam Winter, by the medical fraternity all through the Pony River Valley, there being no occupation or profession more unselfishly appreciative of each other's virtues than the medical gentlemen, on the courage and enterprise he recently displayed in addition to his scientific skill.
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：
-- 'Ah, the signal!The river is overflowing,' he thought.
-- On the banks of a broad solitary river stands a Stown, one of the administrative centres of Russia; in the town there is a fortress, in the fortress there is a prison.
-- Why had he stood looking at the river and pre-ferred to confess?
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