thunder是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 雷, 雷声, 轰隆声，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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, on the 2nd, peals of thunder were heard, the wind blew from the east, and hail rattled against the facade of Granite House like volleys of grape-shot.
-- This bad weather lasted a week, during which time the thunder rolled without cessation in the depths of the sky.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wind began to moan in hollow murmurs, as the sun went down carrying glad day elsewhere; and a train of dull clouds coming up against it, menaced thunder and lightning.
-- Your beer will be the worse for to-night's thunder I expect. Game!Seven-and-sixpence to me, old Isaac.
-- 'I haven't seen such a storm as this,' said a sharp cracked voice of most disagreeable quality, when a tremendous peal of thunder had died away, 'since the night when old Luke Withers won thirteen times running on the red.
-- Sometimes one would look up to smile to another, or to snuff the feeble candle, or to glance at the lightning as it shot through the open window and fluttering curtain, or to listen to some louder peal of thunder than the rest, with a kind of momentary impatience, as if it put him out; but there they sat, with a calm indifference to everything but their cards, perfect philosophers in appearance, and with no greater show of passion or excitement than if they had been made of stone.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a thunder of applause when the monologue ended.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There was the sound of a clap of thunder in my ears.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And part of the roof came off, and ever so much thunder got in and it went rolling round the room in great lumps and knocking over the tables and things till I was so frightened, I couldn't remember my own name!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For just then, although the sun had still an hour or two to run, all the echoes of the island awoke and bellowed to the thunder of a cannon.
-- As I continued to thread the tall woods, I could hear from far before me not only the continuous thunder of the surf, but a certain tossing of foliage and grinding of boughs which showed me the sea breeze had set in higher than usual.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.
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