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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- HAT night land was sighted after sundown, and the Tschooner hove to.
-- I had no means of reaching the land unless I should chance to drift there.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From a little hill called Hutchinson's Hill, you could look over three and a half miles of ground covered with fighting seals; and the surf was dotted all over with the heads of seals hurrying to land and begin their share of the fighting.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No honest man will deny it,' said the scout, a little net-tled at the implied distrust of his explanation of the mystery of the tides; 'and I grant that it is true on the small scale, and where the land is level.
-- 'Where are the blossoms of those summers! fallen, one by one; so all of my family departed, each in his turn, to the land of spirits.
-- When he had succeeded in sufficiently awakening the attention of his comrades, Hey-ward fancied, by his pointing so frequently toward the direction of the great lakes, that he spoke of the land of their fathers, and of their distant tribe.
-- The land had been cleared of wood for a reasonable distance around the work, but every other part of the scene lay in the green liv-ery of nature, except where the limpid water mellowed the view, or the bold rocks thrust their black and naked heads above the undulating outline of the mountain ranges.
-- 'I see nothing,' he said, 'but land and water; and a lovely scene it is.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.
-- Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I stood by, at a loss, like a stranger in a land where the reactions of man to familiar things are all different from those he has known.
-- But it was nice to see that any unpleasantness he had endured in his native land had not impaired his ardent patriotism.
-- And I've known men who came here to be in an office for a year, and they cursed the place, and when they went away they took their dying oath they'd hang themselves before they came back again, and in six months you'd see them land once more, and they'd tell you they couldn't live anywhere else."
-- It was perhaps ten years later that one morning on board ship, about to land at Alexandria, I was bidden to line up with the other passengers for the doctor's examination.
-- There was a tree just behind which bore alligator pears, and all about were the cocoa-nuts which gave the land its revenue.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towns were overthrown, forests uprooted, coasts devastated by the mountains of water which were precipitated on them, vessels cast on the shore, which the published accounts numbered by hundreds, whole districts leveled by waterspouts which destroyed everything they passed over, several thousand people crushed on land or drowned at sea; such were the traces of its fury, left by this devastating tempest.
-- But while so many catastrophes were taking place on land and at sea, a drama not less exciting was being enacted in the agitated air.
-- No land was in sight, not a solitary ship could be seen.
-- But the inevitable catastrophe could only be retarded, and if land did not appear before night, voyagers, car, and balloon must to a certainty vanish beneath the waves.
-- The balloon, which the wind still drove towards the southwest, had since daybreak gone a considerable distance, which might be reckoned by hundreds of miles, and a tolerably high land had, in fact, appeared in that direction.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the efforts of several hundred thousand people, crowded in a small space, to disfigure the land on which they lived; all the stone they covered it with to keep it barren; how so diligently every sprouting blade of grass was removed; all the smoke of coal and naphtha; all the cutting down of trees and driving off of cattle could not shut out the spring, even from the city.
-- Nekhludoff was requested to return and establish his right to the inheritance and also to decide on the future management of the estates; whether the same system of letting out to the peasants, which prevailed during the lifetime of his mother, was to be continued, or, as the steward had strongly advised the deceased Princess, and now advised the young Prince, to augment the stock and work all the land himself.
-- The steward wrote that the land could thus best be exploited.
-- It was agreeable to feel the power of authority over so vast an estate, and it was disagreeable, because in his youth he was an enthusiastic adherent of Herbert Spencer, and being himself a large land owner, was struck by the proposition in Social Statics that private ownership of land is contrary to the dictates of justice.
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