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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'll tell you what we'll do,' said Beth, 'let's each get her something for Christmas, land not get anything for our-selves.'
-- This year it was to be a plantation of sun flowers, the seeds of which cheerful land aspiring plant were to feed Aunt Cockle-top and her family of chicks.
-- An artist friend fitted her out with his castoff palettes, brushes, and colors, and she daubed away, producing pastoral and marine views such as were never seen on land or sea.
-- But Mr. Dashwood rejected any but thrilling tales, and as thrills could not be produced except by harrowing up the souls of the readers, history and romance, land and sea, science and art, police records and lunatic asylums, had to be ransacked for the purpose.
-- So nothing came of these trials, land Jo corked up her inkstand, and said in a fit of very wholesome humil-ity... 'I don't know anything.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes.
-- I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
-- Of things not properly belonging to the room, there was a hammock lashed up, and thrown upon the floor in one corner; also a large seaman's bag, containing the harpooneer's wardrobe, no doubt in lieu of a land trunk.
-- At last I slid off into a light doze, and had pretty nearly made a good offing towards the land of Nod, when I heard a heavy footfall in the passage, and saw a glimmer of light come into the room from under the door.
-- Had it not been for us whalemen, that tract of land would this day perhaps have been in as howling condition as the coast of Labrador.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I expected every wave would have swallowed us up, and that every time the ship fell down, as I thought it did, in the trough or hollow of the sea, we should never rise more; in this agony of mind, I made many vows and resolutions that if it would please God to spare my life in this one voyage, if ever I got once my foot upon dry land again, I would go directly home to my father, and never set it into a ship again while I lived; that I would take his advice, and never run myself into such mis-eries as these any more.
-- While we were in this condition - the men yet labouring at the oar to bring the boat near the shore - we could see (when, our boat mounting the waves, we were able to see the shore) a great many people running along the strand to assist us when we should come near; but we made but slow way towards the shore; nor were we able to reach the shore till, being past the lighthouse at Winterton, the shore falls off to the westward towards Cromer, and so the land broke off a little the violence of the wind.
-- Several times I was obliged to land for fresh water, after we had left this place; and once in particular, being early in morning, we came to an anchor under a little point of land, which was pretty high; and the tide beginning to flow, we lay still to go farther in.
-- When I had pursued this resolution about ten days lon-ger, as I have said, I began to see that the land was inhabited; and in two or three places, as we sailed by, we saw people stand upon the shore to look at us; we could also perceive they were quite black and naked.
-- I was now furnished with roots and corn, such as it was, and water; and leaving my friendly negroes, I made forward for about eleven days more, without offering to go near the shore, till I saw the land run out a great length into the sea, at about the distance of four or five leagues before me; and the sea being very calm, I kept a large offing to make this point.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The land was so very desirable for me in every respect, so immediately adjoining my own property, that I felt it my duty to buy it.
-- And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me, and be happy.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The huge railroad corporations which had long before recognised the prospects of the place had seized upon vast tracts of land for transfer and shipping purposes.
-- It so happened, however, that a real estate deal on the part of the owner of the land arranged things even more effectually than ill- will could have schemed.
-- Chapter XXXVIII IN ELF LAND DISPORTING--THE GRIM WORLD WITHOUT When Carrie renewed her search, as she did the next day, going to the Casino, she found that in the opera chorus, as in other fields, employment is difficult to secure.
-- She conceived of delights which were not--saw lights of joy that never were on land or sea.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So I says: 'Le's land on her, Jim.'
-- He'd call it an adventure that's what he'd call it; and he'd land on that wreck if it was his last act.
-- So says I to Jim: 'The first light we see we'll land a hundred yards below it or above it, in a place where it's a good hiding-place for you and the skiff, and then I'll go and fix up some kind of a yarn, and get somebody to go for that gang and get them out of their scrape, so they can be hung when their time comes.'
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