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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Early in the morning, at six o'clock, he went off to work on the river bank, where they used to pound alabaster and where there was a kiln for baking it in a shed.
-- Raskolnikov came out of the shed on to the river bank, sat down on a heap of logs by the shed and began gazing at the wide deserted river.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The furniture was rather faded, butquite good enough for me; and, sure enough, the river was outsidethe windows.
-- 'The ouse that I am stopping at- asort of a private hotel and boarding ouse, Master Copperfield, nearthe New River ed- will have gone to bed these two hours.'
-- In a breath, the river that flows through our Sunday walksis sparkling in the summer sun, is ruffled by the winter wind, orthickened with drifting heaps of ice.
-- Faster than ever river rantowards the sea, it flashes, darkens, and rolls away.
-- A glimpse of the river through a dull gateway where somewaggons were housed for the night, seemed to arrest my feet.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Disputable, however, as might be the taste of such a termination, it was in itself a charming walk, and the view which closed it extremely pretty. The considerable slope, at nearly the foot of which the Abbey stood, gradu-ally acquired a steeper form beyond its grounds; and at half a mile distant was a bank of considerable abruptness and grandeur, well clothed with wood; and at the bottom of this bank, favourably placed and sheltered, rose the Abbey Mill Farm, with meadows in front, and the river making a close and handsome curve around it.
-- Wood-house, who had already taken his little round in the highest part of the gardens, where no damps from the river were imagined even by him, stirred no more; and his daughter resolved to remain with him, that Mrs. Weston might be persuaded away by her husband to the exercise and variety which her spirits seemed to need.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wore a low-crowned felt hat, spread out at the base by tight jamming upon the head for security in high winds, and a coat like Dr. Johnson's; his lower extremities being encased in ordinary leather leggings and boots emphatically large, affording to each foot a roomy apartment so constructed that any wearer might stand in a river all day long and know nothing of damp their maker being a conscientious man who endeavoured to compensate for any weakness in his cut by unstinted dimension and solidity.
-- That night at Coggan's, Gabriel Oak, beneath the screen of closed eyelids, was busy with fancies, and full of movement, like a river flowing rapidly under its ice.
-- If anything could be darker than the sky, it was the wall, and if any thing could be gloomier than the wall it was the river beneath.
-- Then a morsel of snow flew across the river towards the fifth window.
-- The river would have been seen by day to be of that deep smooth sort which races middle and sides with the same gliding precision, any irregularities of speed being immediately corrected by a small whirlpool.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The immense mountains and precipices that overhung me on every side, the sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the waterfalls around spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence and I ceased to fear or to bend before any being less almighty than that which had created and ruled the elements, here displayed in their most terrific guise.
-- I passed the bridge of Pelissier, where the ravine, which the river forms, opened before me, and I began to ascend the mountain that overhangs it.
-- The sea, or rather the vast river of ice, wound among its dependent mountains, whose aerial summits hung over its recesses.
-- The river descends rapidly and winds between hills, not high, but steep, and of beautiful forms.
-- In one spot you view rug-ged hills, ruined castles overlooking tremendous precipices, with the dark Rhine rushing beneath; and on the sudden turn of a promontory, flourishing vineyards with green sloping banks and a meandering river and populous towns occupy the scene.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Spring had come early that year, with warm quick rains and sudden frothing of pink peach blossoms and dogwooddappling with white stars the dark river swamp and far-off hills.
-- The sun was low across the new-plowed fields and the tall woods across the river were looming blackly insilhouette.
-- "We can go through Mr. O'Hara's river bottom andthe Fontaine's pasture and get there in no time."
-- As they picked their way across the red furrows and down the hill to the river bottom in the deepening dusk, Brentyelled to his brother: "Look, Stu!Don't it seem like to you that Scarlett would have asked us to supper?"
-- She was as forthright and simple as the windsthat blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound about it, and to the end of her days she would never be able tounderstand a complexity.
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