locomotive是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 运动的, 移动的 n. 火车头,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:
-- The OMBU was borne onward so rapidly by the impetuous torrent, that anyone might have supposed some powerful locomotive engine was hidden in its trunk.
-- The railway authorities sent a locomotive to bring them back to Castlemaine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was plenty of width for that, and room to spare; which is perhaps the reason why Scrooge thought he saw a locomotive hearse going on before him in the gloom.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Amir had brought with him for a bodyguard eight hundred men and horses who had never seen a camp or a locomotive before in their lives savage men and savage horses from somewhere at the back of Central Asia.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Just then the locomotive gave a sharp screech, and the train passed out into the darkness of the night.
-- To compare her speed to four times that of a locomotive going on full steam would be below the truth.
-- Snow began to fall an hour after they started, a fine snow, however, which happily could not obstruct the train; nothing could be seen from the windows but a vast, white sheet, against which the smoke of the locomotive had a greyish aspect.
-- The locomotive is then forced to stop and wait till the road is once more clear.
-- "Mere cattle stop the trains, and go by in a procession, just as if they were not impeding travel!Parbleu!I should like to know if Mr. Fogg foresaw this mishap in his programme!And here's an engineer who doesn't dare to run the locomotive into this herd of beasts!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr Swiveller explained that his respectable friend had recently accepted a responsible situation in a locomotive gaming-house, and was at that time absent on a professional tour among the adventurous spirits of Great Britain.
-- The single gentleman, it is true, could do nothing himself, but he overlooked everybody else and was more locomotive than anybody.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Troy was full of activity, but his activities were less of a locomotive than a vegetative nature; and, never being based upon any original choice of foundation or direction, they were exercised on whatever object chance might place in their way.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A door opened, and I found myself in the compartment where Captain Nemo certainly an engineer of a very high order had arranged his locomotive machinery.
-- These graceful molluscs moved backwards by means of their locomotive tube, through which they propelled the water already drawn in.
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:
-- They could hear the small locomotive panting hoarsely as it advanced with caution between the embankments.
-- The locomotive chuffed slowly between the banks, hidden.
-- The noise was released, the little locomotive with her clanking steel connecting-rod emerged on the highroad, clanking sharply.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No little Gradgrind had ever learnt the silly jingle, Twinkle, twinkle, little star; how I wonder what you are!No little Gradgrind had ever known wonder on the subject, each little Gradgrind having at five years old dissected the Great Bear like a Professor Owen, and driven Charles's Wain like a locomotive engine-driver.
-- But they got through the Act with great self-possession; and Mr. Sleary, saving for the first instant, conveyed no more expression into his locomotive eye than into his fixed one.
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:
-- The Ger-mans invented a new locomotive engine with a self feeder, that did not need a fireman.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But she was not the less surprised and curious for asking no more questions; neither was Mr Pancks, whose expressive breathing had been labouring hard since the entrance of the little man, like a locomotive engine with a great load getting up a steep incline.
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