rock是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 岩石, 石块v. 摇, 摇动,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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Akela the Lone Wolf lay by the side of his rock as a sign that the leadership of the Pack was open, and Shere Khan with his following of scrap-fed wolves walked to and fro openly being flattered.
-- 'Fool that I am!Oh, fat, brown, root-digging fool that I am,' said Baloo, uncoiling himself with a jerk, 'it is true what Hathi the Wild Elephant says: 'To each his own fear'; and they, the Bandar-log, fear Kaa the Rock Snake.
-- Here Baloo rubbed his faded brown shoulder against the Panther, and they went off to look for Kaa the Rock Python.
-- He put his hands to his mouth and shouted down the ra-vine it was almost like shouting down a tunnel and the echoes jumped from rock to rock.
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:
-- The scout, while making his remarks, was busied in col-lecting certain necessary implements; as he concluded, he moved silently by the group of travelers, accompanied by the Mohicans, who seemed to comprehend his intentions with instinctive readiness, when the whole three disap-peared in succession, seeming to vanish against the dark face of a perpendicular rock that rose to the height of a few yards, within as many feet of the water's edge.
-- 'Such old foxes as Chingachgook and myself are not often caught in a barrow with one hole,' said Hawkeye, laughing; 'you can easily see the cunning of the place the rock is black limestone, which everybody knows is soft; it makes no uncomfortable pillow, where brush and pine wood is scarce; well, the fall was once a few yards below us, and I dare to say was, in its time, as regular and as handsome a sheet of water as any along the Hudson.
-- The rock proved softer on each side of us, and so they left the center of the river bare and dry, first working out these two little holes for us to hide in.'
-- The moon had risen, and its light was already glancing here and there on the wa-ters above them; but the extremity of the rock where they stood still lay in shadow.
-- Hecrawled along the rock and shook Duncan from his heavy slumbers.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children, particularly the youngest; and like the lion bold, which whilom so magnan-imously the lamb did hold, he would sit with a child on one knee, and rock a cradle with his foot for whole hours to-gether.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Just so, but these are wild or rock pigeons.
-- They were giants with long gray fur; but if I am not mistaken, there exist black and red kangaroos, rock kangaroos, and rat kangaroos, which are more easy to get hold of.
-- Numerous aquatic birds frequented the shores of this little Ontario, in which the thousand isles of its American namesake were represented by a rock which emerged from its surface, some hundred feet from the southern shore.
-- The nests of the rock pigeons which fluttered at its summit were only, in reality, holes bored at the very top, and on the irregular edge of the granite.
-- Some rock pigeons were already flying in and out of the narrow opening; they evidently thought that Granite House had been discovered on purpose for them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Parts were of nickel, parts of ivory, parts had certainly been filed or sawn out of rock crystal.
-- Looking round me again, I saw that, quite near, what I had taken to be a reddish mass of rock was moving slowly towards me.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I remember his breath hanging like smoke in his wake as he strode off, and the last sound I heard of him as he turned the big rock was a loud snort of indignation, as though his mind was still running upon Dr. Livesey.
-- And when I had pointed out the rock and told him how the captain was likely to return, and how soon, and answered a few other questions, "Ah," said he, "this'll be as good as drink to my mate Bill."
-- Here and there were flowering plants, unknown to me; here and there I saw snakes, and one raised his head from a ledge of rock and hissed at me with a noise not unlike the spinning of a top.
-- It occurred to me that this might be the white rock of which Ben Gunn had spoken and that some day or other a boat might be wanted and I should know where to look for one.
-- I was to go down the sandy spit that divides the anchorage on the east from the open sea, find the white rock I had observed last evening, and ascertain whether it was there or not that Ben Gunn had hidden his boat, a thing quite worth doing, as I still believe.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The 6th of July, about three o'clock in the afternoon, the Abraham Lincoln, at fifteen miles to the south, doubled the solitary island, this lost rock at the extremity of the American continent, to which some Dutch sailors gave the name of their native town, Cape Horn.
-- For its part, the narwhal, imitating the frigate, let the waves rock it at will, and seemed decided not to leave the scene of the struggle.
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