land是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 陆地， 土地， 国家v. (使) 靠岸(登陆， 降落)，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I lay in my basket, and my mother lay in her bed; but BetseyTrotwood Copperfield was for ever in the land of dreams andshadows, the tremendous region whence I had so lately travelled;and the light upon the window of our room shone out upon the 19earthly bourne of all such travellers, and the mound above theashes and the dust that once was he, without whom I had neverbeen.
-- As we drew a little nearer, and saw the whole adjacent prospectlying a straight low line under the sky, I hinted to Peggotty that amound or so might have improved it; and also that if the land hadbeen a little more separated from the sea, and the town and the tidehad not been quite so much mixed up, like toast and water, itwould have been nicer.
-- Coarse grass and rank weeds straggled over all themarshy land in the vicinity.
-- 'My Dear Madam, and Copperfield, 'The fair land of promiselately looming on the horizon is again enveloped in impenetrablemists, and for ever withdrawn from the eyes of a drifting wretchwhose Doom is sealed!
-- Thedenizens of the forest cannot, of course, expect to participate in therefinements of the land of the Free.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Churchill will not be second to any lady in the land for' Mrs. Elton eagerly interposed with, 'Oh!Mr.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, Coggan knew pretty nearly how the land lay, and when they were in a nook together he said "Don't take on about her, Gabriel.
-- Now after that revelation of how the land lies with Bathsheba, 'twould be a mistake to kill me, would it not?"
-- This, necessarily a slow process, he found to be not altogether so difficult, and though there was no choice of a landing-place the objects on shore passing by him in a sad and slow procession he perceptibly approached the extremity of a spit of land yet further to the right, now well defined against the sunny portion of the horizon.
-- Lending him what little clothing they could spare among them as a slight protection against the rapidly cooling air, they agreed to land him in the morning; and without further delay, for it was growing late, they made again towards the roadstead where their vessel lay.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators there snow and frost are ban-ished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe.
-- I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.
-- I am going to unexplored regions, to 'the land of mist and snow,' but I shall kill no albatross; therefore do not be alarmed for my safety or if I should come back to you as worn and woeful as the 'Ancient Mariner.'
-- During the two years that had elapsed previous to their marriage my father 26 Frankensteinhad gradually relinquished all his public functions; and im-mediately after their union they sought the pleasant climate of Italy, and the change of scene and interest attendant on a tour through that land of wonders, as a restorative for her weakened frame.
-- Good God!In what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies which you have so greedily imbibed are a thousand years old and as musty as they are ancient?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a savagely red land, blood-colored after rains, brick dust in droughts, the best cotton land in the world.
-- Itwas a pleasant land of white houses, peaceful plowed fields and sluggish yellow rivers, but a land of contrasts, ofbrightest sun glare and densest shade.
-- She loved this land so much, without even knowing she loved it, loved it as she loved hermother's face under the lamp at prayer time.
-- And don't be forgetting that you are half Irish, Miss!Andto anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother.
-- I offer you the most beautiful land in the world saving County Meath in the Old Country and what do youdo?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there was recompense in the joy with which Herbert would come home of a night and tell me of these changes, little imagining that he told me no news, and would sketch airy pictures of himself conducting Clara Barley to the land of the Arabian Nights, and of me going out to join them (with a caravan of camels, I believe), and of our all going up the Nile and seeing wonders.
-- There's them that can't and that won't have Magwitch,--yes, I know the name!--alive in the same land with them, and that's had such sure information of him when he was alive in another land, as that he couldn't and shouldn't leave it unbeknown and put them in danger.
-- The appointed punishment for his return to the land that had cast him out, being Death, and his case being this aggravated case, he must prepare himself to Die.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there went a re-port through all the land of the beautiful sleeping Briar Rose (for so the king's daughter was called): so that, from time to time, several kings' sons came, and tried to break through the thicket into the palace.
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