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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At the bottom of the smooth plaster wall there was a brick pulled out to make a sluice for the bath water, and as Rikki-tikki stole in by the masonry curb where the bath is put, he heard Nag and Nagaina whispering together outside in the moon-light.
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:
-- The keen weapon cut the war plume from the scalping tuft of Uncas, and passed through the frail wall of the lodge as though it were hurled from some formidable engine.
-- Uncas had cast his body back against the wall of the hut and closed his eyes, as if willing to exclude so contemptible and disagreeable an object from his sight.
-- The young Mohican made no reply, but quietly folded his arms, and leaned his body against one of the upright posts that supported the wall of the hut.
-- Though beings of every rank and age, of both sexes, and of all pursuits, had united to form this breathing wall of bodies, they were influenced by a single emotion.
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:
-- I do not suppose he had ever noticed how dingy was the paper on the wall of the room in which on my first visit I found him.
-- "And now on every wall of the old house there is one of my pictures in a beautiful gold frame."
-- He flung it back against the wall angrily what did he mean by leaving it there? but his movement caused it to fall, face downwards, on the ground.
-- "Do you see that wall in front of you?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Landing at the foot of a high wall of granite, he shook himself vigorously; and then, setting off running, soon disappeared behind a rocky point, which projected to nearly the height of the northern extremity of the islet.
-- They both walked to the foot of the enormous wall over the beach, far from which the tide had now retreated; but instead of going towards the north, they went southward.
-- It was a perpendicular wall of very hard granite, which even the waves had not worn away.
-- At this place the wall appeared to have been separated by some violent subterranean force.
-- This important point established, Herbert looked for some cavity which would serve them as a retreat, but in vain; everywhere the wall appeared smooth, plain, and perpendicular.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the shadow of an archway nearly opposite, leading to one of the many passages which diverged from the main street, there lingered one, who, having taken up his position when the twilight first came on, still maintained it with undiminished patience, and leaning against the wall with the manner of a person who had a long time to wait, and being well used to it was quite resigned, scarcely changed his attitude for the hour together.
-- He was patient, and quiet; often sat brooding, but not despondently, for a long space; was easily amused, even by a sun-beam on the wall or ceiling; made no complaint that the days were long, or the nights tedious; and appeared indeed to have lost all count of time, and every sense of care or weariness.
-- When this fit was over, Kit exhibited the bird to both children, as a great and precious rarity it was only a poor linnet and looking about the wall for an old nail, made a scaffolding of a chair and table and twisted it out with great exultation.
-- These were often the commencement of a little village: and after an interval came a wheelwright's shed or perhaps a blacksmith's forge; then a thriving farm with sleepy cows lying about the yard, and horses peering over the low wall and scampering away when harnessed horses passed upon the road, as though in triumph at their freedom.
-- The furniture of the room was very homely of course a few rough chairs and a table, a corner cupboard with their little stock of crockery and delf, a gaudy tea-tray, representing a lady in bright red, walking out with a very blue parasol, a few common, coloured scripture subjects in frames upon the wall and chimney, an old dwarf clothes-press and an eight-day clock, with a few bright saucepans and a kettle, comprised the whole.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the work-room stood an easel with a half- finished painting turned face downward, and on the wall hung studies in drawing.
-- Katiousha was sitting at the table alone, musing and looking at the wall before her.
-- The mist began to settle, and from behind the wall of mist the waning moon appeared, gloomily, lighting up something dark and terrible.
-- "How true it is," she said of some remark of Kolosoff, and pressed a button on the wall near the couch.
-- This room with windows in the rear wall was divided in two not by one, but by two wire nets which stretched from the ceiling to the floor.
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