region是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 地区, 地带, 行政区, (科学等) 领域,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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Those, again, of Tricca and the stony region of Ithome, and they that held Oechalia, the city of Oechalian Eury-tus, these were commanded by the two sons of Aesculapius, skilled in the art of healing, Podalirius and Machaon.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I contrived to enter, and walking down the shop it was a department where they were selling ribbons and gloves and stockings and that kind of thing came to a more spacious region devoted to picnic baskets and wicker furniture.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The only island known to exist in the region in which my uncle was picked up is Noble's Isle, a small volcanic islet and uninhabited.
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:
-- ' Merry Wives of Windsor he party had landed on the border of a region that is, Teven to this day, less known to the inhabitants of the States than the deserts of Arabia, or the steppes of Tartary.
-- Here and there a bird was heard fluttering among the branches of the beeches, and occasionally a squirrel dropped a nut, drawing the startled looks of the party for a moment to the place; but the instant the casual interruption ceased, the passing air was heard murmuring above their heads, along that verdant and undulating surface of forest, which spread itself unbroken, unless by stream or lake, over such a vast region of country.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Such is the general purport of this legendary supersti-tion, which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that region of shadows; and the spectre is known at all the country firesides, by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Towards eleven o'clock, the lower region of the air was sensibly clearer.
-- After leaving the region of bushes, the party, assisted by resting on each other's shoulders, climbed for about a hundred feet up a steep acclivity and reached a level place, with very few trees, where the soil appeared volcanic.
-- It might even be inferred that such was the case, so rich did this region appear in the most magnificent specimens of the flora of the temperate zones.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- CHAPTER 33As the course of this tale requires that we should become acquainted, somewhere hereabouts, with a few particulars connected with the domestic economy of Mr Sampson Brass, and as a more convenient place than the present is not likely to occur for that purpose, the historian takes the friendly reader by the hand, and springing with him into the air, and cleaving the same at a greater rate than ever Don Cleophas Leandro Perez Zambullo and his familiar travelled through that pleasant region in company, alights with him upon the pavement of Bevis Marks.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Truly it was the region of perpendicularity!
-- While its reservoirs were filled, it kept at a depth of 1,000 yards, a region rarely visited in the ocean, and in which large fish were seldom seen.
-- We have arrived at the first declivities of the mountains, and I think we had better regain the region of forests."
-- I immediately recognised that marvellous region in which, on that day, the Captain did the honours to us.
-- The region thus engulfed was beyond Europe, Asia, and Lybia, beyond the columns of Hercules, where those powerful people, the Atlantides, lived, against whom the first wars of ancient Greeks were waged.
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:
-- It surpassed anything she had ever known before, it seemed to throw her out of the world into some terrible region where nothing of her old life held good.
-- He turned his face entirely away from the blackened mining region that stretched away on the right hand of Shortlands, he turned entirely to the country and the woods beyond Willey Water.
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