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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I think that before long the Nautilus will be by Nova Scotia, and that there near New foundland is a large bay, and into that bay the St. Lawrence empties itself, and that the St. Lawrence is my river, the river by Quebec, my native town when I think of this, I feel furious, it makes my hair stand on end.
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：
-- "It seethes and seethes, a river of darkness," he said, "putting forth lilies and snakes, and the ignis fatuus, and rolling all the time onward.
-- We always consider the silver river of life, rolling on and quickening all the world to a brightness, on and on to heaven, flowing into a bright eternal sea, a heaven of angels thronging.
-- "It is your reality, nevertheless," he said; "that dark river of dissolution.
-- You see it rolls in us just as the other rolls the black river of corruption.
-- As they drew over the bridge, in the train, having glimpses of the river between the great iron girders, she cried:"I feel I could never see this foul town again I couldn't bear to come back to it."
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