wilderness是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 荒地, 废墟，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Far other was Hercules, my own brave and lion-hearted father, who came here for the horses of Laomedon, and though he had six ships only, and few men to follow him, sacked the city of Ilius and made a wilderness of her highways.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw for a moment, lying in the wilderness before him, a mirage of honourable ambition, self-denial, and perseverance.
-- What is it but a wilderness of mis-ery and ruin!'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Title: ARROWSMITH Author: Sinclair Lewis Chapter 1 The driver of the wagon swaying through forest and swamp of the Ohio wilderness was a ragged girl of fourteen.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Gerald first moved to north Georgia, there had been no Atlanta at all, not even the semblance of a village,and wilderness rolled over the site.
-- "Your family and my family and everyone here tonight made their money out of changing a wilderness into acivilization.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip.
-- Now that we were out upon the dismal wilderness where they little thought I had been within eight or nine hours and had seen both men hiding, I considered for the first time, with great dread, if we should come upon them, would my particular convict suppose that it was I who had brought the soldiers there?
-- In a by-yard, there was a wilderness of empty casks, which had a certain sour remembrance of better days lingering about them; but it was too sour to be accepted as a sample of the beer that was gone,--and in this respect I remember those recluses as being like most others.
-- By the wilderness of casks that I had walked on long ago, and on which the rain of years had fallen since, rotting them in many places, and leaving miniature swamps and pools of water upon those that stood on end, I made my way to the ruined garden.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, less inexorable than iron, steel, and brass, it brought its varying seasons even into that wilderness of smoke and brick, and made the only stand that ever was made in the place against its direful uniformity.
-- What have you done, O father, what have you done, with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But before this wilderness of waters reached us, the mighty veil of cloud was torn in twain; the sea began to foam wildly; and the electricity, produced by some vast and extraordinary chemical action in the upper layer of cloud, is brought into play.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had but glanced away at the piles of city roofs and chimneys among which the smoke was rolling heavily, and at the wilderness of masts on the river, and the wilderness of steeples on the shore, indistinctly mixed together in the stormy haze, when she was again as quiet as if she had been plying her needle in his mother's room.
-- There is no such place in that part now; but it remained there for many years, looking with a baulked countenance at the wilderness patched with unfruitful gardens and pimpled with eruptive summerhouses, that it had meant to run over in no time.
-- The savage herdsmen and the fierce-looking peasants who had chequered the way while the light lasted, had all gone down with the sun, and left the wilderness blank.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dim, dusty room, with the busts staring down from the tall bookcases, the cozy chairs, the globes, and best of all, the wilderness of books in which she could wander where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
-- Thanks to the conspirators, the tables were turned that night, for Hayes sent up a wilderness of flowers, with a lov-erly basket arranged in his best manner for a centerpiece.
-- Think what luxury Plumfield my own, and a wilderness of boys to enjoy it with me.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is this decapitated end of the head, also, which is at last elevated out of the water, and retained in that position by the enormous cutting tackles, whose hempen combinations, on one side, make quite a wilderness of ropes in that quarter.
-- Like venerable moss-bearded Daniel Boone, he will have no one near him but Nature herself; and her he takes to wife in the wilderness of waters, and the best of wives she is, though she keeps so many moody secrets.
-- Whereas, in the days of the old Canadian and Indian hunters and trappers of the West, when the far west (in whose sunset suns still rise) was a wilderness and a virgin, the same number of moccasined men, for the same number of months, mounted on horse instead of sailing in ships, would have slain not forty, but forty thousand and more buffaloes; a fact that, if need were, could be statistically stated.
-- Because in such a wilderness of running rigging, whose various different relations aloft cannot always be infallibly discerned by what is seen of them at the deck; and when the deck-ends of these ropes are being every few minutes cast down from the fastenings, it would be but a natural fatality, if, unprovided with a constant watchman, the hoisted sailor should by some carelessness of the crew be cast adrift and fall all swooping to the sea.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Bennet, with great civility, begged her ladyship to take some refreshment; but Lady Catherine very resolutely, and not very politely, declined eating anything; and then, rising up, said to Elizabeth, 'Miss Bennet, there seemed to be a prettyish kind of a lit-tle wilderness on one side of your lawn.
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