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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Every joint of it was well grooved; and the door did not move on hinges, but up and down like a sash, which kept my closet so tight that very little water 178 Gulliver's Travelscame in.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He knew all about all the Water Sheds of all the world (whatever they are), and all the histories of all the peoples, and all the names of all the rivers and mountains, and all the productions, manners, and customs of all the countries, and all their boundaries and bearings on the two and thirty points of the compass.
-- A foot of water in it,' said Mr. Bounderby.
-- Down upon the river that was black and thick with dye, some Coketown boys who were at large a rare sight there rowed a crazy boat, which made a spumous track upon the water as it jogged along, while every dip of an oar stirred up vile smells.
-- He lighted a candle, set out his little tea-board, got hot water from below, and brought in small portions of tea and sugar, a loaf, and some butter from the nearest shop.
-- There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind junior, as the injured men of Coketown threatened to pitch their property into the Atlantic.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The islets of Westman appeared to leap from the ocean, being so low in the water as scarcely to be seen until you were right upon them.
-- I dare to say that if any river, any fjord has to be crossed--and I have no doubt there will be many--you will see him enter the water without hesitation like an amphibious like an amphibious animal, and reach the opposite side in safety.
-- To ride over salt water upon the back of a little horse seemed to me absurd.
-- Here and there could be made out the steam from hot water springs.
-- These white vapors, called in the Icelandic language "reykir," come from hot water fountains, and indicate by their violence the volcanic activity of the soil.
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:
-- It thrilled inside her body, in her womb, somewhere, till she felt she must jump into water and swim to get away from it; a mad restlessness.
-- 'No doubt water ought not to be so wet as it is; it overdoes it in wetness.
-- And his white slim back was curved over a big bowl of soapy water, in which he ducked his head, shaking his head with a queer, quick little motion, lifting his slender white arms, and pressing the soapy water from his ears, quick, subtle as a weasel playing with water, and utterly alone.
-- One afternoon, as she sat brooding, watching the water bubbling coldly in John's Well, the keeper had strode up to her.
-- She brought water in a little tin, and was delighted when one of the hens drank.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was no wind to make a ripple on the foul water within the harbour, or on the beautiful sea without.
-- She rose with the rest, and silently withdrew to a remote corner of the great room, where she sat herself on a couch in a window, seeming to watch the reflection of the water as it made a silver quivering on the bars of the lattice.
-- Fifty thousand lairs surrounded him where people lived so unwholesomely that fair water put into their crowded rooms on Saturday night, would be corrupt on Sunday morning; albeit my lord, their county member, was amazed that they failed to sleep in company with their butcher's meat.
-- He went up to the door, which had a projecting canopy in carved work of festooned jack-towels and children's heads with water on the brain, designed after a once-popular monumental pattern, and knocked.
-- Pending which, the long-initiated Tip, with an awful enjoyment of the Snuggery's resources, pointed out the common kitchen fire maintained by subscription of collegians, the boiler for hot water supported in like manner, and other premises generally tending to the deduction that the way to be healthy, wealthy, and wise, was to come to the Marshalsea.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I'd just got to where they all tumbled into the water when I forgot and laughed out loud.
-- Having rekindled the fire, she thought she would go to market while the water heated.
-- Miss Crocker tasted first, made a wry face, and drank some water hastily.
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