railroad是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 铁路v. 由铁道运输，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the box-iron; and went proudly over the col-lar: for she fancied she was a steam-engine, that would go on the railroad and draw the waggons.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Pacific Railroad is, however, really divided into two distinct lines: the Central Pacific, between San Francisco and Ogden, and the Union Pacific, between Ogden and Omaha.
-- The Pacific Railroad is joined by several branches in Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, and Oregon.
-- It was here that the Union Pacific Railroad was inaugurated on the 23rd of October, 1867, by the chief engineer, General Dodge.
-- The railroad which ran through this section ascended from the south-west to the north-west by Great Island, Columbus, an important Nebraska town, Schuyler, and Fremont, to Omaha.
-- The Pacific Railroad proper finds its terminus at this important Nebraska town.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her indolent amusement, her manner of treating him as though they were a pair of children making tongues at each other in a railroad station, was infuriating to the earnest young assistant of Professor Gottlieb.
-- Sunset was a surf of crimson, and by night, when he stepped from the choking railroad coach and tramped the platform at Sauk Centre, he drank the icy air and looked up to the vast and solitary winter stars.
-- It looked out on breezy, stubbly waste land reaching to distant glittering railroad tracks.
-- In his shack near the railroad he sold silver stock and motor-factory stock, bought and sold farmlands and horses and muskrat hides.
-- Wise's shack was a one-story structure, not badly built, half a block from Main Street, with nothing but the railroad track between it and open wheat country.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the railroad building era really began.
-- From the old city of Augusta, a second railroad wasextended westward across the state to connect with the new road to Tennessee.
-- From the same junction point, theyoung Atlanta, a fourth railroad was constructed southwestward to Montgomery and Mobile.
-- The whole hospital musthave turned out, at least everybody who could walk, and all the men on furlough and sick leave and all the railroad andmail service and hospital and commissary departments between here and Macon.
-- "If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn't sanctify the railroad company, would it?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the same reason I don't make all my journey in one day, but divide it into two days, and get a bed to-night at the Travellers' Coffee House down by the railroad (a nice clean house), and go back Parliamentary, at six in the morning.
-- So disguised she had no fear of being recognized when she followed up the railroad steps, and paid her money in the small office.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At that time the contrast was far greater; there being no small steam-boats on the river, no landing places but slippery wooden stairs and foot-causeways, no railroad on the opposite bank, no hanging bridge or fish-market near at hand, no traffic on the nearest bridge of stone, nothing moving on the stream but watermen's wherries and coal-lighters.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If I can manage the young one, I can the old one,' mut-tered Jo, as she walked away, leaving Laurie bent over a railroad map with his head propped up on both hands.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The huge railroad corporations which had long before recognised the prospects of the place had seized upon vast tracts of land for transfer and shipping purposes.
-- It was so with the vast railroad yards, with the crowded array of vessels she saw at the river, and the huge factories over the way, lining the water's edge.
-- They were from Evansville, Indiana, the wife and daughter of a railroad treasurer.
-- She looked in the mirror and pursed up her lips, accompanying it with a little toss of the head, as she had seen the railroad treasurer's daughter do.
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