meadow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 草地，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Behind this miniature town there lay 1,500 hectares of meadow land, bounded by an embankment of lava.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore he was named Simoeisius, but he did not live to pay his parents for his rearing, for he was cut off untimely by the spear of mighty Ajax, who struck him in the breast by the right nipple as he was coming on among the fore-most fighters; the spear went right through his shoulder, and he fell as a poplar that has grown straight and tall in a meadow by some mere, and its top is thick with branches.
-- Automedon therefore yoked the fleet horses Xanthus and Balius, steeds that could fly like the wind: these were they whom the harpy Podarge bore to the west wind, as she was grazing in a meadow by the wa-ters of the river Oceanus.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Haysman's meadow was gay with a tent, in which Mrs. Bunting and other ladies were preparing tea, while, without, the Sunday-school children ran races and played games under the noisy guidance of the curate and the Misses Cuss and Sackbut.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On reaching the meadow Levin stopped the horse.
-- He had cut the whole of the meadow in front of his house, and this year ever since the early spring he had cherished a plan for mowing for whole days together with the peasants.
-- From the uplands he could get a view of the shaded cut part of the meadow below, with its grayish ridges of cut grass, and the black heaps of coats, taken off by the mowers at the place from which they had started cutting.
-- On finishing yet another row he would have gone back to the top of the meadow again to begin the next, but Tit stopped, and going up to the old man said something in a low voice to him.
-- The immense stretch of meadow had been mown and was sparkling with a peculiar fresh brilliance, with its lines of already sweet-smelling grass in the slanting rays of the evening sun.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was atop a pole and suddenly, for no clear cause, his eyes opened and he saw; as though he had just awakened he saw that the prairie was vast, that the sun was kindly on rough pasture and ripening wheat, on the old horses, the easy, broad-beamed, friendly horses, and on his red-faced jocose companions; he saw that the meadow larks were jubilant, and blackbirds shining by little pools, and with the living sun all life was living.
-- But in the bustle of leaving Zenith, the excitement of the journey to Wheatsylvania, the scramble of his state examinations, the dignity of being a Practicing Physician, he forgot Gottlieb, and on that Dakota prairie radiant in early June, with meadow larks on every fence post, he began his work.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a meadow land, dotted here and there with clumps of trees, and watered by a little stream, which sprung from the slopes which closed it in on one side.
-- This meadow was to be surrounded by a palisade, high enough to prevent even the most agile animals from leaping over.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had gained a little wooden bridge, which, thrown across the stream, led into a meadow in her way, when she came suddenly upon a ruddy light, and looking forward more attentively, discerned that it proceeded from what appeared to be an encampment of gipsies, who had made a fire in one corner at no great distance from the path, and were sitting or lying round it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the right was a tract of land, partly meadow and partly moor, reaching, at its remote verge, to a wide undulating upland.
-- Beyond the first enclosure was a hedge, and on the other side of this a meadow belonging to Bathsheba's farm.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Curdken went on telling the king what had hap-pened upon the meadow where the geese fed; how his hat was blown away; and how he was forced to run after it, and to leave his flock of geese to themselves.
-- Then they went back to the meadow together, but someone had stolen the calf, and it was gone.
-- When the wolf had satisfied his appetite he took himself off, laid himself down under a tree in the green meadow outside, and began to sleep.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- '3d, The said man-mountain shall confine his walks to our principal high roads, and not offer to walk, or lie down, in a meadow or field of corn.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had come on horseback, and must have passed through the neighbouring fields; for his horse was tied to the meadow side of the fence, within a few paces.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains, and his imagination expanded with the idea, how they might be readily turned into cash, and the money invested in immense tracts of wild land, and shingle palaces in the wilderness.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I read in PILGRIM'S PROGRESS today how, after many troubles, christian and Hopeful came to a pleasant green meadow where lilies bloomed all year round, and there they rested happily, as we do now, before they went on to their journey's end,' answered Beth, adding, as she slipped out of her father's arms and went to the instrument, 'It's singing time now, and I want to be in my old place.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Those who understand such enclosures will think I had very little contrivance when I pitched upon a place very proper for all these (being a plain, open piece of meadow land, or savannah, as our people call it in the western colo-nies), which had two or three little drills of fresh water in it, and at one end was very woody - I say, they will smile at my forecast, when I shall tell them I began by enclosing this piece of ground in such a manner that, my hedge or pale must have been at least two miles about.
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