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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Beyond the extraordinary basaltic wall of the fjord of Stapi we found ourselves making our way through fibrous turf, over which grew a scanty vegetation of grass, the residuum of the ancient vegetation of the swampy peninsula.
-- But a solid wall of granite still separated us from it!
-- This point he soon found in the lateral wall on the left side, about three feet above the level of the tunnel floor.
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:
-- As they turned the last bend in the riding towards the hazel wall and the gate, he blew out the light.
-- He led her through the wall of prickly trees, that were difficult to come through, to a place where was a little space and a pile of dead boughs.
-- How bare the little room was!Yet over his head on the wall hung a hideous en-larged photograph of a young married couple, apparently him and a bold-faced young woman, no doubt his wife.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As he said it, he rose, shook himself, scratched himself, tied his brown coat loosely round his neck by the sleeves (he had previously used it as a coverlet), and sat down upon the pavement yawning, with his back against the wall opposite to the grating.
-- Out again for Civita Vecchia, so away to hey!there's no room for Naples;' he had got to the wall by this time; 'but it's all one; it's in there!'
-- His theatrical air, as he stood with one arm on his hip within the folds of his cloak, together with his manner of disregarding his companion and addressing the opposite wall instead, seemed to intimate that he was rehearsing for the President, whose examination he was shortly to undergo, rather than troubling himself merely to enlighten so small a person as John Baptist Cavalletto.
-- 'Your daughter,' said the other, when they had taken another silent turn to and fro, and, after standing for a moment at the wall glancing down at the sea, had resumed their walk, 'is your only child, I know, Mr Meagles.
-- Little MotherThe morning light was in no hurry to climb the prison wall and look in at the Snuggery windows; and when it did come, it would have been more welcome if it had come alone, instead of bringing a rush of rain with it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Aunt is tapping on the wall for the third time, so I must stop.
-- 'Try lower down, and pick those that have no thorns,' said Amy, gathering three of the tiny cream-colored ones that starred the wall behind her.
-- At one corner of the wide, low wall was a seat, and here Amy often came to read or work, or console herself with the beauty all about her.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The opposite wall of this entry was hung all over with a heathenish array of monstrous clubs and spears.
-- The chaplain had not yet arrived; and there these silent islands of men and women sat steadfastly eyeing several marble tablets, with black borders, masoned into the wall on either side the pulpit.
-- Between the marble cenotaphs on either hand of the pulpit, the wall which formed its back was adorned with a large painting representing a gallant ship beating against a terrible storm off a lee coast of black rocks and snowy breakers.
-- I was surprised to behold resting against the wall the wooden shaft of Queequeg's harpoon, which the landlady the evening previous had taken from him, before our mounting to the chamber.
-- At the middle of the forehead horizontally subdivide this upper quoin, and then you have two almost equal parts, which before were naturally divided by an internal wall of a thick tendinous substance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Against the wall were ranged, in regular array, a long row of elm boards cut in the same shape: looking in the dim light, like high-shouldered ghosts with their hands in their breeches pockets.
-- Coffin-plates, elm-chips, bright-headed nails, and shreds of black cloth, lay scattered on the floor; and the wall behind the counter was ornamented with a lively representation of two mutes in very stiff neckcloths, on duty at a large private door, with a hearse drawn by four black steeds, approaching in the distance.
-- This seemed to be some watchword or signal that all was right; for the light of a feeble candle gleamed on the wall at the remote end of the passage; and a man's face peeped out, from where a balustrade of the old kitchen staircase had been broken away.
-- Here against the wall of a house, Oliver saw written up in pretty large letters, 'Hampton.'
-- Toby complied, by first producing his lantern, and placing it on the ground; then by planting himself firmly with his head against the wall beneath the window, and his hands upon his knees, so as to make a step of his back.
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