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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea.
-- The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.
-- On the edge of the river I could faintly make out the only two black things in all the prospect that seemed to be standing upright; one of these was the beacon by which the sailors steered,--like an unhooped cask upon a pole,--an ugly thing when you were near it; the other, a gibbet, with some chains hanging to it which had once held a pirate.
-- If I slept at all that night, it was only to imagine myself drifting down the river on a strong spring-tide, to the Hulks; a ghostly pirate calling out to me through a speaking-trumpet, as I passed the gibbet-station, that I had better come ashore and be hanged there at once, and not put it off.
-- Some real or fancied sound, some clink upon the river or breathing of beast upon the marsh, now gave him a start, and he said, suddenly,--"You're not a deceiving imp?
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The river said, 'Run first to the bride, and ask her for a silken cord to draw up the water.'
-- Chan-ticleer ran to the bride, and said, 'Bride, you must give me a silken cord, for then the river will give me water, and the water I will carry to Partlet, who lies on the mountain, and will be choked by a great nut.'
-- Then Chanticleer ran to the garden, and took the garland from the bough where it hung, and brought it to the bride; and then the bride gave him the silken cord, and he took the silken cord to the river, and the river gave him wa-ter, and he carried the water to Partlet; but in the meantime she was choked by the great nut, and lay quite dead, and never moved any more.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When we came to land we saw no river or spring, nor any sign of inhabitants.
-- This city stands upon almost two 135equal parts, on each side the river that passes through.
-- He only desired me to observe a ruined build-ing, upon the side of a mountain about three miles distant, of which he gave me this account: 'That he had a very con-venient mill within half a mile of his house, turned by a current from a large river, and sufficient for his own family, as well as a great number of his tenants; that about seven years ago, a club of those projectors came to him with pro-posals to destroy this mill, and build another on the side of that mountain, on the long ridge whereof a long canal must be cut, for a repository of water, to be conveyed up by 222 Gulliver's Travelspipes and engines to supply the mill, because the wind and air upon a height agitated the water, and thereby made it fitter for motion, and because the water, descending down a declivity, would turn the mill with half the current of a river whose course is more upon a level.'
-- On the 21st of April, 1708, we sailed into the river of Clumegnig, which is a seaport town, at the south-east point of Luggnagg.
-- Being one day abroad with my protector the sorrel nag, and the weather exceeding hot, I entreated him to let me bathe in a river that was near.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.
-- Down upon the river that was black and thick with dye, some Coketown boys who were at large a rare sight there rowed a crazy boat, which made a spumous track upon the water as it jogged along, while every dip of an oar stirred up vile smells.
-- If he had had any sense of what he had done that night, and had been less of a whelp and more of a brother, he might have turned short on the road, might have gone down to the ill-smelling river that was dyed black, might have gone to bed in it for good and all, and have curtained his head for ever with its filthy waters.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There's not the slightest doubt about it," he replied, "a subterranean river is flowing beside us."
-- "What is the use," replied my uncle, "the source from which this river rises is inexhaustible."
-- Once at this spot, once the river at my feet, I could, at all events, regain the awful crater of Mount Sneffels.
-- The slope of waters, which was carrying us away, was far greater than that of the most rapid river of America.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now is the time to be chaste, it is so good to be chaste, like a river of cool water in my soul.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He crossed by St Paul's and went down, at a long angle, almost to the water's edge, through some of the crooked and descending streets which lie (and lay more crookedly and closely then) between the river and Cheapside.
-- Innocent, in the mist through which she saw her father, and the prison, and the turbid living river that flowed through it and flowed on.
-- Let LooseA late, dull autumn night was closing in upon the river Saone.
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