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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The at-tendants brought on the oath-offerings and mixed the wine in the mixing-bowls; they poured water over the hands of the chieftains, and the son of Atreus drew the dagger that hung by his sword, and cut wool from the lambs' heads; this the men-servants gave about among the Trojan and Achaean princes, and the son of Atreus lifted up his hands in prayer.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if you put a sheet of common white glass in water, still more if you put it in some denser liquid than water, it would vanish almost altogether, because light passing from water to glass is only slightly refracted or reflected or indeed affected in any way.
-- The powdered glass and water have much the same refractive index; that is, the light undergoes very little refraction or reflection in passing from one to the other.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I say lucky for us he did not reach us, and I might almost say luckily for himself; for we had only a small breaker of water and some soddened ship's biscuits with us, so sudden had been the alarm, so unprepared the ship for any disas-ter.
-- We drifted famishing, and, after our water had come to an end, tormented by an intolerable thirst, for eight days altogether.
-- The water ended on the fourth day, and we were already thinking strange things and saying them with our eyes; but it was, I think, the sixth before Helmar gave voice to the thing we had all been thinking.
-- We went past the steersman to the taff-rail, and saw the water come foaming under the stern and the bubbles go dancing and vanishing in her wake.
-- I heard the swish of the water as the ship was suddenly brought round, and a foamy yel-low-green wave flew across the little round window and left it streaming.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So Baloo, the Teacher of the Law, taught him the Wood and Water Laws: how to tell a rotten branch from a sound one; how to speak politely to the wild bees when he came upon a hive of them fifty feet above ground; what to say to Mang the Bat when he disturbed him in the branches at midday; and how to warn the water-snakes in the pools before he splashed down among them.
-- They drank at the tanks and made the water all muddy, and then they fought over it, and then they would all rush to-gether in mobs and shout: 'There is no one in the jungle so wise and good and clever and strong and gentle as the Ban-dar-log.'
-- Roll to the water tanks.
-- The water comes out of my eyes; yet I laugh while it falls.
-- But, as Matkah told Kotick, 'So long as you don't lie in mud-dy water and get mange, or rub the hard sand into a cut or scratch, and so long as you never go swimming when there is a heavy sea, nothing will hurt you here.'
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：
-- Six hours the waters run in, and six hours they run out, and the reason is this: when there is higher water in the sea than in the river, they run in until the river gets to be highest, and then it runs out again.'
-- In this manner, pools and ponds, and even the great fresh-water lakes, may be stagnant, as you and I both know they are, having seen them; but when you come to spread water over a great tract, like the sea, where the earth is round, how in reason can the water be quiet?
-- We said the country should be ours from the place where the water runs up no longer on this stream, to a river twenty sun's journey toward the summer.
-- said the scout, shaking his head doubtingly; 'When the sun is scorching the tree tops, and the water courses are full; when the moss on every beech he sees will tell him in what quarter the north star will shine at night.
-- Behind them, the curvature of the banks soon bounded the view by the same dark and wooded outline; but in front, and apparently at no great distance, the water seemed piled against the heavens, whence it tumbled into caverns, out of which issued those sullen sounds that had loaded the eve-ning atmosphere.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In one part of the road leading to the church was found the saddle trampled in the dirt; the tracks of horses' hoofs deeply dented in the road, and evidently at furious speed, were traced to the bridge, beyond which, on the bank of a broad part o脜聯 the brook, where the water ran deep and black, was found the hat of the unfortunate Ichabod, and close beside it a shattered pumpkin.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The absinthe came, and with due solemnity we dropped water over the melting sugar.
-- When a man falls into the water it doesn't matter how he swims, well or badly: he's got to get out or else he'll drown."
-- Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.
-- He looked woebegone and yet ridiculous, like a man who has fallen into the water with all his clothes on, and, being rescued from death, frightened still, feels that he only looks a fool.
-- He would be in no hurry, but one night Strickland would get a knife-thrust in his back, and in a day or two the corpse of a nameless beach-comber would be fished out of the dirty water of the harbour.
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