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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The lamp in the parlor window threw odd golden shadows onto the dark vine-shrouded porch, and the matted tangle of yellow climbing roses and honeysuckle made a wall of mingled fragranceabout her.
-- She knewMelanie wanted the daguerreotype of Charles which hung on the wall below his sword and pistol.
-- She passed the clump of cedars and the low brick wall which marked the family burying ground, trying not tothink of the new grave lying by the three short mounds of her little brothers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- By this time, my sister was quite desperate, so she pounced on Joe, and, taking him by the two whiskers, knocked his head for a little while against the wall behind him, while I sat in the corner, looking guiltily on.
-- And now, when they were all in lively anticipation of "the two villains" being taken, and when the bellows seemed to roar for the fugitives, the fire to flare for them, the smoke to hurry away in pursuit of them, Joe to hammer and clink for them, and all the murky shadows on the wall to shake at them in menace as the blaze rose and sank, and the red-hot sparks dropped and died, the pale afternoon outside almost seemed in my pitying young fancy to have turned pale on their account, poor wretches.
-- But when she was gone, I looked about me for a place to hide my face in, and got behind one of the gates in the brewery-lane, and leaned my sleeve against the wall there, and leaned my forehead on it and cried.
-- Anyhow, with whitewash from the wall on my forehead, my obstinacy was adamantine.
-- There was a bar at the Jolly Bargemen, with some alarmingly long chalk scores in it on the wall at the side of the door, which seemed to me to be never paid off.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At twilight, he clambered down over the wall into the garden of the enchantress, hastily clutched a handful of rampion, and took it to his wife.
-- In the gloom of evening therefore, he let himself down again; but when he had clambered down the wall he was terribly afraid, for he saw the enchantress standing before him.
-- 'I went alone through a forest and came at last to a house; not a soul could I find within, but a bird that was hanging in a cage on the wall cried: 'Turn back, turn back, young maiden fair, 136 Grimms' Fairy Tales Linger not in this murderers' lair.'
-- Everything was spruce and neat in the cottage: on the table was spread a white cloth, and there were seven little plates, seven little loaves, and seven little glasses with wine in them; and seven knives and forks 177laid in order; and by the wall stood seven little beds.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- '7th, That the said man-mountain shall, at his times of leisure, be aiding and assisting to our workmen, in helping to raise certain great stones, towards covering the wall of the principal park, and other our royal buildings.
-- The wall which encompassed it is two feet and a half high, and at least eleven inches broad, so that a coach and horses may be driven very safely round it; and it is flanked with strong towers at ten feet distance.
-- The city is an exact square, each side of the wall being five hundred feet long.
-- It is enclosed by a wall of two feet high, and twenty feet distance from the buildings.
-- It was indeed a moveable pair of stairs, the lowest end placed at ten feet distance from the wall of the chamber.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The emphasis was helped by the speaker's square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for its base, while his eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves, overshadowed by the wall.
-- Framed and glazed upon the wall behind the dingy little bar, was another Pegasus a theatrical one with real gauze let in for his wings, golden stars stuck on all over him, and his ethereal harness made of red silk.
-- Their shadows were defined upon the wall, but those of the high presses in the room were all blended together on the wall and on the ceiling, as if the brother and sister were overhung by a dark cavern.
-- Stephen sat upon the step of a door, leaned against a wall under an archway, strolled up and down, listened for the church clock, stopped and watched children playing in the street.
-- 'Now, you see, Tom,' said Mr. Harthouse in conclusion, himself tossing over a rose or two, as a contribution to the island, which was always drifting to the wall as if it wanted to become a part of the mainland: 'every man is selfish in everything he does, and I am exactly like the rest of my fellow-creatures.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It stretches its humble tenements along the end of a little fjord, surrounded by a basaltic wall of the most singular character.
-- The wall of the fjord, like nearly the whole of the peninsula, consisted of a series of vertical columns, in height about thirty feet.
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