wall是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 墙, 壁, 围墙vt. 筑墙围住, 用墙隔开,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This year it was held in the large hall of the University Y.M.C.A., a moral apartment with red wall paper, portraits of whiskered alumni who had gone out to be missionaries, and long thin pine boxes intended to resemble exposed oak beams.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A big clumsy sofa occupied almost the whole of one wall and half the floor space of the room; it was once covered with chintz, but was now in rags and served Ras-kolnikov as a bed.
-- Glancing out of the corner of his eye into a shop, he saw by a clock on the wall that it was ten minutes past seven.
-- Against the other wall stood a big bed, very clean and cov-ered with a silk patchwork wadded quilt.
-- Against a third wall was a chest of drawers.
-- In one instant he had whisked in at the open door and hid-den behind the wall and only in the nick of time; they had already reached the landing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Over a door in this wall was a board with SALEMHOUSE upon it; and through a grating in this door we weresurveyed, when we rang the bell, by a surly face, which I found, onthe door being opened, belonged to a stout man with a bull-neck, awooden leg, over-hanging temples, and his hair cut close all roundhis head.
-- to seek myfortune; but these were transient visions, day dreams I sat lookingat sometimes, as if they were faintly painted or written on the wall 132of my room, and which, as they melted away, left the wall blankagain.
-- This was, to lie behind the wall at the backof my old school, in a corner where there used to be a haystack.
-- So I crept away from the wall as Mr.Creakle's boys were getting up, and struck into the long dustytrack which I had first known to be the Dover Road when I wasone of them, and when I little expected that any eyes would eversee me the wayfarer I was now, upon it.
-- In anothermoment, I don't know where the wall is, or where I am, or whereanybody is.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was hot; and after walking some time over the gardens in a scattered, dispersed way, scarcely any three together, they insensibly followed one another to the delicious shade of a broad short avenue of limes, which stretching beyond the garden at an equal distance from the river, seemed the finish of the pleasure grounds. It led to nothing; nothing but a view at the end over a low stone wall with high pil-lars, which seemed intended, in their erection, to give the appearance of an approach to the house, which never had been there.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Obliged, to some extent, to forgo dreaming in order to find the way, he reached the churchyard, and passed round it under the wall where several ancient trees grew.
-- THE MALTHOUSE THE CHAT NEWSWarren's Malthouse was enclosed by an old wall inwrapped with ivy, and though not much of the exterior was visible at this hour, the character and purposes of the building were clearly enough shown by its outline upon the sky.
-- There was no window in front; but a square hole in the door was glazed with a single pane, through which red, comfortable rays now stretched out upon the ivied wall in front.
-- We turn our attention to the left-hand characteristics; which were flatness in respect of the river, verticality in respect of the wall behind it, and darkness as to both.
-- If anything could be darker than the sky, it was the wall, and if any thing could be gloomier than the wall it was the river beneath.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Beneath the wall of the house front there lies a channel, a fathom wide, paved with cobble-stones, and beside it runs a graveled walk bordered by geraniums and oleanders and pomegranates set in great blue and white glazed earthenware pots.
-- The little garden is no wider than the front of the house; it is shut in between the wall of the street and the partition wall of the neighboring house.
-- Behind the house a yard extends for some twenty feet, a space inhabited by a happy family of pigs, poultry, and rabbits; the wood-shed is situated on the further side, and on the wall between the wood-shed and the kitchen window hangs the meat-safe, just above the place where the sink discharges its greasy streams.
-- The floor is sufficiently uneven, the wainscot rises to elbow height, and the rest of the wall space is decorated with a varnished paper, on which the principal scenes from _Telemaque_ are depicted, the various classical personages being colored.
-- Vauquer had made various improvements in the three rooms destined for his use, in consideration of a certain sum paid in advance, so it was said, for the miserable furniture, that is to say, for some yellow cotton curtains, a few chairs of stained wood covered with Utrecht velvet, several wretched colored prints in frames, and wall papers that a little suburban tavern would have disdained.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The abrupt sides of vast mountains were before me; the icy wall of the glacier overhung me; a few shattered pines were scattered around; and the solemn silence of this glorious presence-chamber of imperial nature was broken only by the brawling waves or the fall of some vast fragment, the thunder sound of the avalanche or the cracking, reverber-ated along the mountains, of the accumulated ice, which, through the silent working of immutable laws, was ever and anon rent and torn, as if it had been but a plaything in their hands.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On this wall hung large picturesof President Davis and Georgia's own "Little Alec" Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy.
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