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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 69THE GOOSE-GIRL he king of a great land died, and left his queen to take Tcare of their only child.
-- Now the queen lay awake all night, thinking of all the odd names that she had ever heard; and she sent messen-gers all over the land to find out new ones.
-- And when she got there, and saw that it was no other than Snowdrop, who, as she thought, had been dead a long while, she choked with rage, and fell down and died: but Snowdrop and the prince lived and reigned hap-pily over that land many, many years; and sometimes they went up into the mountains, and paid a visit to the little dwarfs, who had been so kind to Snowdrop in her time of need.
-- 'Ah,' she replied, 'the way is so long, and what shall I do in a strange land where I am unknown?'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I have since found that the sea Yahoos are apt, like the land ones, to become new- fangled in their words, which the latter change every year; insomuch, as I remem-ber upon each return to my own country their old dialect was so altered, that I could hardly understand the new.
-- On the 17th, we came in full view of a great island, or continent (for we knew not whether;) on the south side whereof was a small neck of land jutting out into the sea, and a creek too shallow to hold a ship of above one hundred tons.
-- When we came to land we saw no river or spring, nor any sign of inhabitants.
-- The whole extent of this prince's dominions reaches about six thousand miles in length, and from three to five in breadth: whence I cannot but conclude, that our geogra-phers of Europe are in a great error, by supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California; for it was ever my opinion, that there must be a balance of earth to counter-poise the great continent of Tartary; and therefore they ought to correct their maps and charts, by joining this vast tract of land to the north- west parts of America, wherein I shall be ready to lend them my assistance.
-- I encompassed it almost round, before I could find a convenient place to land 194 Gulliver's Travelsin; which was a small creek, about three times the wide-ness of my canoe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends.
-- 'Sir,' returned Stephen, with the quiet confidence of absolute certainty, 'if yo was t' tak a hundred Slackbridges aw as there is, and aw the number ten times towd an' was t' sew 'em up in separate sacks, an' sink 'em in the deepest ocean as were made ere ever dry land coom to be, yo'd leave the muddle just wheer 'tis.
-- They were flowing for the fertilization of the land where grapes are gathered from thorns, and figs from thistles.
-- The station for the country house was at the opposite end of the town, the time was short, the road not easy; but she was so quick in pouncing on a disengaged coach, so quick in darting out of it, producing her money, seizing her ticket, and diving into the train, that she was borne along the arches spanning the land of coal-pits past and present, as if she had been caught up in a cloud and whirled away.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle, to his great disgust, was unable even to crawl on deck, so heavy a sea was on, and thus lost the first view of the Land of Promise.
-- "You must go by land along the coast.
-- The whole land seemed crushed under the weight of enormous stones--of trap, of basalt, of granite, of lava, and of all other volcanic substances.
-- My uncle, turning in a westerly direction, pointed out to me a light cloud of vapor, a kind of haze, with a faint outline of land rising out of the waters.
-- When Christopher Columbus asked of his men three days to discover the land of promise, his men ill, terrified, and hopeless, yet gave him three days--and the New World was discovered.
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：
-- At the back of the cottage the land rose steeply, so the back yard was sunk-en, and enclosed by a low stone wall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his submission, in his lightness, in his good humour, in his short-lived passion, in his easy contentment with hard bread and hard stones, in his ready sleep, in his fits and starts, altogether a true son of the land that gave him birth.
-- And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another, move all we restless travellers through the pilgrimage of life.
-- Clennam remained until everything possible to be done had been skilfully and promptly done the poor belated wanderer in a strange land movingly besought that favour of him and lingered by the bed to which he was in due time removed, until he had fallen into a doze.
-- Strange, if the little sick-room light were in effect a watch-light, burning in that place every night until an appointed event should be watched out!Which of the vast multitude of travellers, under the sun and the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another; which of the host may, with no suspicion of the journey's end, be travelling surely hither?
-- But, while the so-potent art of Prospero himself would have failed in summoning the Barnacles from every speck of ocean and dry land on which there was nothing (except mischief) to be done and anything to be pocketed, it was perfectly feasible to assemble a good many Barnacles.
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