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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With the frankness and boldness of youth, he not only then spoke of the injustice of private ownership of land; not only did he compose theses in the university on the subject, but he actually distributed among the peasants the few hundred acres of land left him by his father, not desiring to own land contrary to his convictions.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Here and there water shone like silver, and beyond, the land rose into blue undulating hills, and so faded into the serenity of the sky.
-- And so, in that derelict museum, upon the thick soft carpeting of dust, to Weena's huge delight, I solemnly performed a kind of composite dance, whistling The Land of the Leal as cheerfully as I could.
-- The fluctuating contours of the land ebbed and flowed.
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:
-- The land there is worth a thousand pounds an inch!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes what to the doctor know of lands like that? and I lived on rum, I tell you.
-- But soon the anchor was short up; soon it was hanging dripping at the bows; soon the sails began to draw, and the land and shipping to flit by on either side; and before I could lie down to snatch an hour of slumber the Hispaniola had begun her voyage to the Isle of Treasure.
-- "And now, men," said the captain, when all was sheeted home, "has any one of you ever seen that land ahead?"
-- This land that we have sighted is the place we have been sailing for.
-- Perhaps it was this perhaps it was the look of the island, with its grey, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach at least, although the sun shone bright and hot, and the shore birds were fishing and crying all around us, and you would have thought anyone would have been glad to get to land after being so long at sea, my heart sank, as the saying is, into my boots; and from the first look onward, I hated the very thought of Treasure Island.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ned Land was a Canadian, with an uncommon quickness of hand, and who knew no equal in his dangerous occupation.
-- Ned Land was about forty years of age; he was a tall man (more than six feet high), strongly built, grave and taciturn, occasionally violent, and very passionate when contradicted.
-- Who calls himself Canadian calls himself French; and, little communicative as Ned Land was, I must admit that he took a certain liking for me.
-- Little by little, Ned Land acquired a taste for chatting, and I loved to hear the recital of his adventures in the polar seas.
-- Seated on the poop, Ned Land and I were chatting of one thing and another as we looked at this mysterious sea, whose great depths had up to this time been inaccessible to the eye of man.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "If one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere."
-- Birkin looked at the land, at the evening, and was thinking: "Well, if mankind is destroyed, if our race is destroyed like Sodom, and there is this beautiful evening with the luminous land and trees, I am satisfied.
-- She was glad to be on the free land again.
-- He was listening to the faint near sounds, the dropping of water-drops from the oar-blades, the slight drumming of the lanterns behind him, as they rubbed against one another, the occasional rustling of Gudrun's full skirt, an alien land noise.
-- The sea they turned into a murderous alley and a soiled road of commerce, disputed like the dirty land of a city every inch of it.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At last, our curate (we had a curate then who made the living answer by teaching the little Lintons and Earnshaws, and farming his bit of land himself) advised that the young man should be sent to college; and Mr. Earnshaw agreed, though with a heavy spirit, for he said 'Hindley was nought, and would never thrive as where he wandered.
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