shower是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 阵雨, 淋浴,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The sky was gloomy, and the shortest streets were choked up with a dingy mist, half thawed, half frozen, whose heavier particles descended in shower of sooty atoms, as if all the chimneys in Great Britain had, by one consent, caught fire, and were blazing away to their dear hearts' content.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Such a man came upon him, like a ghost, at noon in the July weather, as he sat on his heap of stones under a bank, taking such shelter as he could get from a shower of hail.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The messenger of Fortune had only executed a few unimportant commissions, such as saving a new bonnet from a shower of rain, etc.
-- They afterwards came to a little house, made of branches and the bark of trees; a large wild apple-tree bent over it, as if it would shower down all its blessings on the roof, where roses were blooming.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He thought no more of the shower spoiling the race course, but was rejoicing now that--thanks to the rain--he would be sure to find her at home and alone, as he knew that Alexey Alexandrovitch, who had lately returned from a foreign watering place, had not moved from Petersburg.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is not known whether Martin ever completely accepted as a gentleman-scholar the Clay Tredgold who was devoted to everything about astronomy except studying it, or Monte Mugford as the highly descended aristocrat, but he did admire the Group's motor cars, shower baths, Fifth Avenue frocks, tweed plus-fours, and houses somewhat impersonally decorated by daffodillic young men from Chicago.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And a heavy shower of rain came on, too, and Dounia, in-sulted and put to shame, had to drive with a peasant in an open cart all the seventeen versts into town.
-- Get in, more of you!Get in, all of you!I will have her go at a gal-lop!芒聙娄' All at once laughter broke into a roar and covered every-thing: the mare, roused by the shower of blows, began feebly kicking.
-- A strange desire you have to shower benefits on a man who 芒聙娄 curses them, who feels them a burden in fact!Why did you seek me out at the beginning of my illness?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I amsure, when I took my leave, and Traddles was coming out to walkwith me to the coffee-house, I thought I had never seen anobstinate head of hair, or any other head of hair, rolling about insuch a shower of kisses.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The shower was heavy, but short; and it had not been over five minutes, when in came Harriet, with just the heat-ed, agitated look which hurrying thither with a full heart was likely to give; and the 'Oh!Miss Woodhouse, what do you think has happened!'
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Heaven shower down blessings on you, and save me, that I may again and again testify my gratitude for all your love and kindness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I still held her forcibly down with all my strength, like a prisoner who might escape; and I doubt if I even knew who she was, or why we had struggled, or that she had been in flames, or that the flames were out, until I saw the patches of tinder that had been her garments no longer alight but falling in a black shower around us.
-- No gleam of fire, no glittering shower of sparks, no roar of bellows; all shut up, and still.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The gate was opened, and as the girl passed through, a shower of gold fell upon her, and the gold clung to her, so that she was covered with it from head to foot.
-- Mother Holle led her, as she had led her sister, to the broad gateway; but as she was passing through, instead of the shower of gold, a great bucketful of pitch came pour-ing over her.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When this shower of arrows was over, I fell a groaning with grief and pain; and then striving 15again to get loose, they discharged another volley larger than the first, and some of them attempted with spears to stick me in the sides; but by good luck I had on a buff jerkin, which they could not pierce.
-- In the meantime, there suddenly fell such a violent shower of hail, that I was immediately by the force of it, struck to the ground: and when I was down, the hailstones gave me such cruel bangs all over the body, as if I had been pelted with tennis-balls; however, I made a shift to creep on all fours, and shelter myself, by lying flat on my face, on the lee-side of a border of lemon-thyme, but so bruised from head to foot, that I could not go abroad in ten days.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It fell at last, bringing with it a shower of small stones, lava and dust, a disagreeable kind of rain or hail.
-- The thousand and one prisms of the lava collected the light as it passed and brought it to us like a shower of sparks.
-- As I came down, amidst a perfect shower of stones, the least of which falling on me would have crushed me to death, they came to the conclusion that I had carried with me an entire dislocated rock.
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:
-- To like a shower bath from the rain?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I, who shower money upon it in this way?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The bag is opened, and several quarts of tin money shower down upon the stage till it is quite glorified with the glitter.
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