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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Water was splashing, and mud was flying, and oaths were being sworn, and blows were being struck, when some more men went down into the ditch to help the sergeant, and dragged out, separately, my convict and the other one.
-- Besides being possessed by my sister's idea that a mortifying and penitential character ought to be imparted to my diet,--besides giving me as much crumb as possible in combination with as little butter, and putting such a quantity of warm water into my milk that it would have been more candid to have left the milk out altogether,--his conversation consisted of nothing but arithmetic.
-- But he said nothing after offering his Blue Blazes observation, until the glasses of rum and water were brought; and then he made his shot, and a most extraordinary shot it was.
-- He stirred his rum and water pointedly at me, and he tasted his rum and water pointedly at me.
-- The half-hour and the rum and water running out together, Joe got up to go, and took me by the hand.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when she had reached the middle, and heard the water rushing beneath her, she was after all, afraid, and stood still, and ventured no farther.
-- Then the queen took pity on the little fish, and threw it back again into the river; and before it swam away it lifted its head out of the water and said, 'I know what your wish is, and it shall be fulfilled, in return for your kindness to me you will soon have a daughter.'
-- But the fish said, 'Pray let me live!I am not a real fish; I am an enchanted prince: put me in the water again, and let me go!'
-- The fisherman did not much like the business: however, 49he went to the seashore; and when he came back there the water looked all yellow and green.
-- He soon came to the seashore; and the water was quite black and muddy, and a mighty whirlwind blew over the waves and rolled them about, but he went as near as he could to the water's brink, and said: 'O man of the sea!
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I advanced to the middle of the channel, they were yet more in pain, because I was under water to my neck.
-- I found they had already applied ladders to the walls of the apartment, and were well provided with buckets, but the water was at some distance.
-- ''Whereas, by a statute made in the reign of his imperial majesty Calin Deffar Plune, it is enacted, that, whoever shall make water within the precincts of the royal palace, shall be liable to the pains and penalties of high-treason; notwith-standing, the said Quinbus Flestrin, in open breach of the said law, under colour of extinguishing the fire kindled in the apartment of his majesty's most dear imperial consort, did maliciously, traitorously, and devilishly, by discharge of his urine, put out the said fire kindled in the said apart-ment, lying and being within the precincts of the said royal palace, against the statute in that case provided, etc.
-- Our men therefore wandered on the shore to find out some fresh water near the sea, and I walked alone about a mile 99on the other side, where I observed the country all barren and rocky.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had first, however, pro-vided for my sustenance for that day by a loaf of coarse bread, which I purloined, and a cup with which I could drink more conveniently than from my hand of the pure water which flowed by my retreat.
-- Early in the morning, be-fore she had risen, he cleared away the snow that obstructed her path to the milk-house, drew water from the well, and brought the wood from the outhouse, where, to his perpet-ual astonishment, he found his store always replenished by an invisible hand.
-- I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when I beheld my person reflected in water or my shadow in the moonshine, even as that frail image and that inconstant shade.
-- 'I have seen,' he said, 'the most beautiful scenes of my own country; I have visited the lakes of Lucerne and Uri, where the snowy mountains descend almost perpendicularly to the water, casting black and impenetrable shades, which would cause a gloomy and mournful appearance were it not for the most verdant islands that relieve the eye by their gay appearance; I have seen this lake agitated by a tempest, when the wind tore up whirlwinds of water and gave you an idea of what the water-spout must be on the great ocean; and the waves dash 188 Frankensteinwith fury the base of the mountain, where the priest and his mistress were overwhelmed by an avalanche and where their dying voices are still said to be heard amid the pauses of the nightly wind; I have seen the mountains of La Valais, and the Pays de Vaud; but this country, Victor, pleases me more than all those wonders.
-- I now also began to collect the materials necessary for my new creation, and this was to me like the torture of single drops of water continually falling on the head.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the strange half-light, the tall pines of the river swamp, so warmly green in the sunshine, were black against thepastel sky, an impenetrable row of black giants hiding the slow yellow water at their feet.
-- Their beauty she accepted as casually asthe air she breathed and the water she drank, for she had never consciously seen beauty in anything bat women's faces,horses, silk dresses and like tangible things.
-- The muddy Flint River, running silently between walls of pine and water oak covered with tangled vines, wrappedabout Gerald's new land like a curving arm and embraced it on two sides.
-- How would they all get into the hall!It had seemed such a large place a few minutes before, and now it waspacked, warm with summer-night odors of sachet and cologne water and hair pomade and burning bayberry candles,fragrant with flowers, faintly dusty as many feet trod the old drill floors.
-- It was of dark-green taffeta, lined with water silk of a pale-jade color.
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