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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- n the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent Ithe eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently short-ened sail and implored the protection of St. Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Army and Navy Stores are a bond of union between all who dwell between the river and St. James's Park.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pencroft had remarked, several hundred feet from the place at which they landed, a narrow cutting, out of which he thought a river or stream might issue.
-- The river became strong almost directly between the two walls of granite, which began to sink above the mouth; it then suddenly turned and disappeared beneath a wood of stunted trees half a mile off.
-- The water of the river was limpid.
-- After having walked for a quarter of an hour, the sailor and the boy arrived at the angle which the river made in turning towards the left.
-- "Right," replied Pencroft; "the river will be to us like a road which carries of itself, and rafts have not been invented for nothing."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the Surrey side of the river was a small rat-infested dreary yard called 'Quilp's Wharf,' in which were a little wooden counting-house burrowing all awry in the dust as if it had fallen from the clouds and ploughed into the ground; a few fragments of rusty anchors; several large iron rings; some piles of rotten wood; and two or three heaps of old sheet copper, crumpled, cracked, and battered.
-- Neither did the place present any extraordinary aspect of life or activity, as its only human occupant was an amphibious boy in a canvas suit, whose sole change of occupation was from sitting on the head of a pile and throwing stones into the mud when the tide was out, to standing with his hands in his pockets gazing listlessly on the motion and on the bustle of the river at high-water.
-- Arrived at his destination, the first object that presented itself to his view was a pair of very imperfectly shod feet elevated in the air with the soles upwards, which remarkable appearance was referable to the boy, who being of an eccentric spirit and having a natural taste for tumbling, was now standing on his head and contemplating the aspect of the river under these uncommon circumstances.
-- But as they drew nearer the ruined walls, the moon rose in all her gentle glory, and, from their venerable age, garlanded with ivy, moss, and waving grass, the child looked back upon the sleeping town, deep in the valley's shade: and on the far-off river with its winding track of light: and on the distant hills; and as she did so, she clasped the hand she held, less firmly, and bursting into tears, fell upon the old man's neck.
-- 'Have you been dragging the river all day, gentlemen?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His life on the estate of his aunts was ordered in the following way: He rose very early, some times at three o'clock, and till sunrise bathed in the river under a hill, often in the morning mist, and returned when the dew was yet on the grass and flowers.
-- There, on the misty river some incessant, slow work was going on.
-- From the river came the same strange sounds of snuffling, crackling and grinding of the ice.
-- Below, the noises on the river increased, and a buzzing was added to the other sounds.
-- "He wants me to do washing on the river and feast on potatoes.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The big building I had left was situated on the slope of a broad river valley, but the Thames had shifted, perhaps, a mile from its present position.
-- Below was the valley of the Thames, in which the river lay like a band of burnished steel.
-- The presence of ventilating shafts and wells along the hill slopes everywhere, in fact, except along the river valley showed how universal were its ramifications.
-- Here was the same beautiful scene, the same abundant foliage, the same splendid palaces and magnificent ruins, the same silver river running between its fertile banks.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The six scoundrels were sitting grumbling under a sail in the forecastle; ashore we could see the gigs made fast and a man sitting in each, hard by where the river runs in.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were then following the current from the largest river to the sea, that has its banks, its fish, and its proper temperatures.
-- It was on this ocean river that the Nautilus then sailed.
扩展阅读：