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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was impossible to go on till this tremendous shower was over, unless the travelers wished to be stoned.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a lion or wild boar turns fiercely on the dogs and men that attack him, while these form solid wall and shower their javelins as they face him his cour-age is all undaunted, but his high spirit will be the death of him; many a time does he charge at his pursuers to scatter them, and they fall back as often as he does so even so did Hector go about among the host exhorting his men, and cheering them on to cross the trench.
-- But Ajax could no longer hold his ground for the shower of darts that rained upon him; the will of Jove and the javelins of the Trojans were too much for him; the helmet that gleamed about his temples rang with the continuous clatter of the missiles that kept pouring on to it and on to the cheek-pieces that protected his face.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had hardly spoken when a shower of nuts and twigs spattered down through the branches; and they could hear coughings and howlings and angry jumpings high up in the air among the thin branches.
-- A fresh shower came down on their heads and the two trotted away, taking Mowgli with them.
-- But a shower of stones whistled about his ears, and the villag-ers shouted: 'Sorcerer!Wolf's brat!Jungle demon!Go away!
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow-traveller in relief against the sky, gigantic in height, and muffled in a cloak, Ichabod was horror-struck on per-ceiving that he was headless!but his horror was still more increased on observing that the head, which should have rested on his shoulders, was carried before him on the pom-mel of his saddle!His terror rose to desperation; he rained a shower of kicks and blows upon Gunpowder, hoping by a sudden movement to give his companion the slip; but the spectre started full jump with him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So far, however, from rushing upon somebody who offered no resistance and implored his mercy, Mr Quilp was no sooner in the arms of the individual whom he had taken for his wife than he found himself complimented with two staggering blows on the head, and two more, of the same quality, in the chest; and closing with his assailant, such a shower of buffets rained down upon his person as sufficed to convince him that he was in skilful and experienced hands.
-- Captivated with his own ingenuity, and confident in the strength of his position, which he had taken up after the method of those hardy individuals who open the pit and gallery doors of theatres on crowded nights, Mr Swiveller rained down such a shower of blows, that the noise of the bell was drowned; and the small servant, who lingered on the stairs below, ready to fly at a moment's notice, was obliged to hold her ears lest she should be rendered deaf for life.
-- cried the dwarf, aiming a shower of blows at the insensible countenance, and covering it with deep dimples.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The clouds partly dissipated, and the last fine shower fell straight on the wet ground.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was on what seemed to be a little lawn in a garden, surrounded by rhododendron bushes, and I noticed that their mauve and purple blossoms were dropping in a shower under the beating of the hailstones.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this moment the canoes approached the Nautilus, and a shower of arrows alighted on her.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It broke the ice in the be-ginning by producing a laugh, it created quite a refreshing breeze, flapping to and fro as she rowed, and would make an excellent umbrella for the whole party, if a shower came up, she said.
-- Hannah wisely allowed them to relieve their feelings, and when the shower showed signs of clearing up, she came to the rescue, armed with a coffeepot.
-- Jo gave a sort of gasp, as if a cold shower bath had suddenly fallen upon her, for such an unexpected turning of the tables actually took her breath away.
-- A smart shower at eleven had evidently quenched the enthusiasm of the young ladies who were to arrive at twelve, for nobody came, and at two the exhausted family sat down in a blaze of sunshine to consume the per-ishable portions of the feast, that nothing might be lost.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stubb was struck by a shower of outcries and anathemas proceeding from the Captain's round-house abaft; and looking in that direction saw a fiery face thrust from behind the door, which was held ajar from within.
-- So suddenly seen in the blue plain of the sea, and relieved against the still bluer margin of the sky, the spray that he raised, for the moment, intolerably glittered and glared like a glacier; and stood there gradually fading and fading away from its first sparkling intensity, to the dim mistiness of an advancing shower in a vale.
-- There's a soft shower to leeward.
-- Crushed thirty feet upwards, the waters flashed for an instant like heaps of fountains, then brokenly sank in a shower of flakes, leaving the circling surface creamed like new milk round the marble trunk of the whale.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This preliminary proceeding laying bare his head, the expert lady, clasping him tightly round the throat with one hand, inflicted a shower of blows (dealt with singular vigour and dexterity) upon it with the other.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pinocchio had no hat, but he managed to get under the window just in time to feel a shower of ice-cold water pour down on his poor wooden head, his shoulders, and over his whole body.
-- A shower of applause greeted the Donkey as he arose to his feet.
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