water是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 水vt. 浇灌； 给…饮水vi. 流泪， 加水，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 dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!'
-- There were pears and apples, clustered high in blooming pyramids; there were bunches of grapes, made, in the shopkeepers' benevolence to dangle from conspicuous hooks, that people's mouths might water gratis as they passed; there were piles of filberts, mossy and brown, recalling, in their fragrance, ancient walks among the woods, and pleasant shufflings ankle deep through with-ered leaves; there were Norfolk Biffins, squab and swarthy, setting off the yellow of the oranges and lemons, and, in the great compactness of their juicy persons, urgently entreat-ing and beseeching to be carried home in paper bags and eaten after dinner.
-- And it was a very uncommon kind of torch, for once or twice when there were angry words be-tween some dinner-carriers who had jostled each other, he shed a few drops of water on them from it, and their good humour was restored directly.
-- And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.
-- Great heaps of sea-weed clung to its base, and storm-birds born of the wind one might suppose, as sea-weed of the water rose and fell about it, like the waves they skimmed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was ap-pointed that the water should be locked in an eternal frost, when the light was playing on its surface, and I stood in ignorance on the shore.
-- Show Concord!Gentleman's valise and hot water to Concord.
-- As I was say-ing ' Her look so discomposed him that he stopped, wan-dered, and began anew: 'As I was saying; if Monsieur Manette had not died; if he had suddenly and silently disappeared; if he had been spirited away; if it had not been difficult to guess to what 32 A tale of two citiesdreadful place, though no art could trace him; if he had an enemy in some compatriot who could exercise a privilege that I in my own time have known the boldest people afraid to speak of in a whisper, across the water there; for instance, the privilege of filling up blank forms for the consignment of any one to the oblivion of a prison for any length of time; if his wife had implored the king, the queen, the court, the clergy, for any tidings of him, and all quite in vain; then the history of your father would have been the history of this unfortunate gentleman, the Doctor of Beauvais.'
-- The father had long ago taken up his bundle and bidden himself away with it, when the women who had tended the bundle while it lay 157on the base of the fountain, sat there watching the running of the water and the rolling of the Fancy Ball when the one woman who had stood conspicuous, knitting, still knitted on with the steadfastness of Fate.
-- The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran into death according to rule, time and tide waited for no man, the rats were sleeping close together in their dark holes again, the Fancy Ball was lighted up at supper, all things ran their course.
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：
-- What with the rain and the wind, she was in a sad condi- tion; the water trickled down from her hair, and her clothes clung to her body.
-- The drops of water splashed up to the green leafy roof, and the clerk thought of the million of ephemera which in a single drop were thrown up to a height, that was as great doubtless for their size, as for us if we were to be hurled above the clouds.
-- She pours water out of the teapot over a piece of stuff which she holds in her hand; it is the bodice; cleanliness is a fine thing.
-- And his mother laughed, put some Elder-flowers in the tea-pot, and poured boiling water upon them.
-- And when he looked across at the wall where the mortar had fallen out, he could sit and find out there the strangest figures imaginable; exactly as the street had ap-peared before, with steps, projecting windows, and pointed gables; he could see soldiers with halberds, and spouts where the water ran, like dragons and serpents.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, God be with you," she said at the door of the study, where a shaded candle and a decanter of water were already put by his armchair.
-- Chapter 13 Levin put on his big boots, and, for the first time, a cloth jacket, instead of his fur cloak, and went out to look after his farm, stepping over streams of water that flashed in the sunshine and dazzled his eyes, and treading one minute on ice and the next into sticky mud.
-- Levin rode back across the streams, hoping the water would have gone down.
-- From the thickest parts of the copse, where the snow still remained, came the faint sound of narrow winding threads of water running away.
-- "Drink it up; you positively must drink the brandy, and then seltzer water and a lot of lemon," said Yashvin, standing over Petritsky like a mother making a child take medicine, "and then a little champagne--just a small bottle."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Twenty times she seemed almost to be submerged by these mountains of water which rose behind her; but the adroit management of the pilot saved her.
-- Quite different from Lake Asphaltite, whose depression is twelve hundred feet below the sea, it contains considerable salt, and one quarter of the weight of its water is solid matter, its specific weight being 1,170, and, after being distilled, 1,000.
-- Sometimes the screw rose out of the water, beating its protruding end, when a mountain of water raised the stern above the waves; but the craft always kept straight ahead.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin was astonished to see the eminent pharmacologist, after a shocked inspection of the sour chicken and mishandled salad which made up most of the dinner, pour something into his water glass from a huge silver flask--and pour that something frequently.
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