trail是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 痕迹, 足迹, 小径; v. 拖, 拉, 蔓延，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I don't know much about the tariff and things of that kind,' said he; 'but it seems to me we've got a bit off the trail so far as that note is concerned.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On this he treated the body of Hector with contumely: he pierced the sinews at the back of both his feet from heel to ancle and passed thongs of ox-hide through the slits he had made: thus he made the body fast to his chariot, let-ting the head trail upon the ground.
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：
-- The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven; one fell down and formed a long trail of fire.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Beyond doubt then it is no small thing that takes two such hunters leaders in their own jungle I am certain on the trail of the Bandar-log,' Kaa replied courteously, as he swelled with curiosity.
-- This time he went westward, because he had fallen on the trail of a great shoal of halibut, and he needed at least one hun-dred pounds of fish a day to keep him in good condition.
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：
-- 'I trust to other signs than such as come in at the eye, when I am outlying on the trail of the Mingoes.'
-- If you are led into the woods, that is such of you as may be spared for awhile, break the twigs on the bushes as you pass, and make the marks of your trail as broad as you can, when, if mortal eyes can see them, de-pend on having a friend who will follow to the ends of the 'arth afore he desarts you.'
-- 'Aye, 'twas judgmatical and like themselves; though we were too expart to be thrown from a trail by so common an invention.'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin swung the Ford about, grazing a slashed chopping block; he rattled up the road, took the corner that side of the schoolhouse instead of this, ran half a mile along a boggy trail between pastures, and stopped at a farmhouse.
-- He was roused by a suspicion that the Hunziker vaccine had insufficient living organisms, and he went yelping on the trail of his hypothesis.
-- But more dismaying was the slimy trail of the dollar which he beheld in Pickerbaugh's most ardent eloquence.
-- Martin blared at Dr. Ockford, "Get t'hell out of this, Rufus, and take charge of the department for today--I'm out--I'm dead--and oh, say, get Leora home and fry her a couple o' eggs, and you might bring me a Denver sandwich from the Sunset Trail Lunch, will you?"
-- Thanks more to her than to his own articulateness, he made living the Institute, the members, their feuds, and the drama of coursing on the trail of a discovery.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This he carried up the ladder, and sticking his rod through the clog at one end, allowed the other end of the chain to trail upon the ground.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mammyfelt that she owned the O'Haras, body and soul, that their secrets were her secrets; and even a hint of a mystery wasenough to set her upon the trail as relentlessly as a bloodhound.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Wonderful and glorious genius, great Saknussemm," he cried, "you have left no stone unturned, no resource omitted, to show to other mortals the way into the interior of our mighty globe, and your fellow creatures can find the trail left by your illustrious footsteps, three hundred years ago, at the bottom of these obscure subterranean abodes.
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：
-- He strode over the low brambles and bracken, leaving a trail through the fern.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You won't stop, I know, as long as you can trail round in a white gown with your hair down, and wear gold-paper jewelry.
-- The sweeping style suits you best, and you must learn to trail your skirts gracefully.
-- We can run down there any time, and it's really a pity to trail through the dust in our best bibs and tuckers, when we are tired and cross.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But no longer snuffing in the trail of the wild beasts of the woodland, Tashtego now hunted in the wake of the great whales of the sea; the unerring harpoon of the son fitly replacing the infallible arrow of the sires.
-- But those wild eyes met his, as the bloodshot eyes of the prairie wolves meet the eye of their leader, ere he rushes on at their head in the trail of the bison; but, alas!only to fall into the hidden snare of the Indian.
-- To trail the genealogies of these high mortal miseries, carries us at last among the sourceless primogenitures of the gods; so that, in the face of all the glad, hay-making suns, and soft cymballing, round harvest-moons, we must needs give in to this: that the gods themselves are not for ever glad.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, I'd been selling an article to take the tartar off the teeth and it does take it off, too, and generly the enamel along with it but I stayed about one night longer than I ought to, and was just in the act of sliding out when I ran across you on the trail this side of town, and you told me they were coming, and begged me to help you to get off.
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