mist是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 薄雾; 朦胧,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 damp mist began to clear away, and a sudden gleam of light revealed a low-lying shore about six miles distant.
-- As evening came on, a white mist on the horizon marked the course of the Snowy River.
-- On this day Glenarvan looked more anxiously than ever at each point where a break in the mist enabled him to do so.
-- Half an hour afterward the beak-head of the yacht was turned toward Talcahuano, over a sea worthy of being called the Pacific, and at six P. M. the last mountains of New Zealand had disappeared in warm, hazy mist on the horizon.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The prince jumped up in alarm at Aglaya's sudden wrath, and a mist seemed to come before his eyes.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Forthwith she rose as it were a grey mist out of the waves, sat down before him as he stood weeping, caressed him with her hand, and said, 'My son, why are you weeping?
-- As when the south wind spreads a curtain of mist upon the mountain tops, bad for shepherds but better than night for thieves, and a man can see no further than he can throw a stone, even so rose the dust from under their feet as they made all speed over the plain.
-- Pelagon, his friend and comrade, drew the spear out of his thigh, but Sarpedon fainted and a mist came over his eyes.
-- I should have even killed the two Molion-es, sons of Actor, unless their real father, Neptune lord of the earthquake, had hidden them in a thick mist and borne them out of the fight.
-- When she had completed her oath, the two enshrouded themselves in a thick mist and sped lightly forward, leav-ing Lemnos and Imbrus behind them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He felt alone in the room and looked up, and there, grey and dim, was the bandaged head and huge blue lenses staring fixedly, with a mist of green spots drifting in front of them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had fallen into a pre-cipitous ravine, rocky and thorny, full of a hazy mist which drifted about me in wisps, and with a narrow streamlet from which this mist came meandering down the centre.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Of the cloudy line of mules hastily tied to rings in the wall, one would bite another, or kick another, and then the whole mist would be disturbed: with men diving into it, and cries of men and beasts coming out of it, and no bystander discerning what was wrong.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- cried Mr. Bhaer, with a defiant nod, as if the walls of mist closing round them were barriers which he was to surmount or val-iantly knock down.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The mist still spread over the sea, the empty lantern lay crushed in the bottom of the boat.
-- Almost in the same instant, with a thunder-boom, the enormous mass dropped into the sea, like Niagara's Table-Rock into the whirlpool; the suddenly relieved hull rolled away from it, to far down her glittering copper; and all caught their breath, as half swinging now over the sailors' heads, and now over the water Daggoo, through a thick mist of spray, was dimly beheld clinging to the pendulous tackles, while poor, buried-alive Tashtego was sinking utterly down to the bottom of the sea!But hardly had the blinding vapor cleared away, when a naked figure with a boarding-sword in his hand, was for one swift moment seen hovering over the bulwarks.
-- The central body of it is hidden in the snowy sparkling mist enveloping it; and how can you certainly tell whether any water falls from it, when, always, when you are close enough to a whale to get a close view of his spout, he is in a prodigious commotion, the water cascading all around him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The mud lay thick upon the stones, and a black mist hung over the streets; the rain fell sluggishly down, and everything felt cold and clammy to the touch.
-- A damp mist rose from the river, and the marshy ground about; and spread itself over the dreary fields.
-- A mist came before his eyes; the cold sweat stood upon his ashy face; his limbs failed him; and he sank upon his knees.
-- There was little to be made out, in the mist and darkness; but the loud shouting of men vibrated through the air, and the barking of the neighbouring dogs, roused by the sound of the alarm bell, resounded in every direction.
-- The air grew colder, as day came slowly on; and the mist rolled along the ground like a dense cloud of smoke.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She saw it through a mist of fancy--a pale, sombre half-light, which was the essence of poetic feeling.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The first thing to see, looking away over the water, was a kind of dull line that was the woods on t'other side; you couldn't make nothing else out; then a pale place in the sky; then more paleness spreading around; then the river soft- ened up away off, and warn't black any more, but gray; you could see little dark spots drifting along ever so far away trading scows, and such things; and long black streaks rafts; sometimes you could hear a sweep screaking; or jumbled up voices, it was so still, and sounds come so far; and by and by you could see a streak on the water which you know by the look of the streak that there's a snag there in a swift current which breaks on it and makes that streak look that way; and you see the mist curl up off of the water, and the east reddens up, and the river, and you make out a log-cabin in the edge of the woods, away on the bank on t'other side of the river, being a woodyard, likely, and piled by them cheats so you can throw a dog through it anywheres; then the nice breeze springs up, and comes fanning you from over there, so cool and fresh and sweet to smell on account of the woods and the flowers; but sometimes not that way, because they've left dead fish laying around, gars and such, and they do get pretty rank; and next you've got the full day, and every- thing smiling in the sun, and the song-birds just going it!
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