thick是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 厚的, 粗的, 稠的, 浓的ad. 厚, 浓, 密,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:
-- We remained talking on the quarter deck until the sky was thick with stars.
-- It was low, and covered with thick vegetation, chief-ly a kind of palm, that was new to me.
-- STRODE through the undergrowth that clothed the I ridge behind the house, scarcely heeding whither I went; passed on through the shadow of a thick cluster of straight-stemmed trees beyond it, and so presently found myself some way on the other side of the ridge, and descending to-wards a streamlet that ran through a narrow valley.
-- The speaker's words came thick and sloppy, and though I could hear them dis-tinctly I could not distinguish what he said.
-- It was a thick voice, with something in it a kind of whis-tling overtone that struck me as peculiar; but the English accent was strangely good.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was near Rann's bedtime, but he had ranged all over the jungle looking for the Bear and had missed him in the thick foliage.
-- At one end stood a little village, and at the other the thick jungle came down in a sweep to the grazing-grounds, and stopped there as though it had been cut off with a hoe.
-- Darzee and his wife only cowered down in the nest with-out answering, for from the thick grass at the foot of the bush there came a low hiss a horrid cold sound that made Rikki-tikki jump back two clear feet.
-- But between those times he moved ab-solutely without any sound, drifting through the thick Garo forest as though it had been smoke.
-- The elephants had stamped out more room had stamped the thick grass and juicy cane to trash, the trash into slivers, the slivers into tiny fibers, and the fibers into hard earth.
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:
-- He approached the further end of the cavern, to an out-let, which, like the others, was concealed by blankets; and removing the thick screen, breathed the fresh and reviving air from the cataract.
-- As they gradually rose from the level of the valleys, the thick darkness which usually precedes the approach of day began to disperse, and objects were seen in the plain and palpable colors with which they had been gifted by nature.
-- exclaimed the scout, unconsciously directing the attention of Cora to the quarters of her own father, 'how that shot has made the stones fly from the side of the com-mandant's house!Ay!these Frenchers will pull it to pieces faster than it was put together, solid and thick though it be!'
-- Suddenly a strong glare of light flashed across the scene, the fog rolled upward in thick wreaths, and several cannons belched across the plain, and the roar was thrown heavily back from the bellowing echoes of the mountain.
-- 'Then ears are better than eyes,' said the undisturbed scout, who, having just deposited a portion of a bear be-tween his grinders, spoke thick and slow, like one whose mouth was doubly occupied.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On that side of the road where the brook entered the wood, a group of oaks and chestnuts, matted thick with wild grape-vines, threw a cavernous gloom over it.
-- Away, then, they dashed through thick and thin; stones flying and sparks flashing at every bound.
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:
-- Her hair, thick and dark like her mother's, fell over her shoulders in fine profusion, and she had the same kindly expression and sedate, untroubled eyes.
-- She washed his limbs; they were covered with thick hair; and when she dried his hands, even in his weakness they were strong and sinewy.
-- Italian, Spanish, Japanese, coloured; some are fat and some are thin; and under the thick paint on their faces, the heavy smears on their eyebrows, and the scarlet of their lips, you see the lines of age and the scars of dissipation.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Beneath the lower point of the balloon swung a car, containing five passengers, scarcely visible in the midst of the thick vapor mingled with spray which hung over the surface of the ocean.
-- Their eyes could not pierce through the thick mist which had gathered beneath the car.
-- A true Northerner, thin, bony, lean, about forty-five years of age; his close-cut hair and his beard, of which he only kept a thick mustache, were already getting gray.
-- Thick mists passed like clouds close to the ground.
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