lightning是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 闪电a. 闪电般的， 快速的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A memorable storm of thunder and lightning broke with that sweep of water, and there was not a moment's interval in crash, and fire, and rain, until after the moon rose at midnight.
-- It was a hot, wild night, and they were all three reminded of the old Sunday night when they had looked at the lightning 302 A tale of two citiesfrom the same place.
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 seemingly dead body of the watchman wandered, as we have said, to the hospital, where it was brought into the general viewing-room: and the first thing that was done here was naturally to pull off the galoshes when the spirit, that was merely gone out on adventures, must have returned with the quickness of lightning to its earthly tenement.
-- I would behold magnificent Switzerland; I would travel to Italy, and '60 Andersen's Fairy Tales It was a good thing that the power of the Galoshes worked as instantaneously as lightning in a powder-magazine would do, otherwise the poor man with his overstrained wishes would have travelled about the world too much for himself as well as for us.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The storm had drifted on to the opposite side of the sky, and there were flashes of lightning and distant thunder from that quarter.
-- At each flash of lightning the Milky Way, and even the bright stars, vanished, but as soon as the lightning died away, they reappeared in their places as though some hand had flung them back with careful aim.
-- But she could not have seen his face if a flash of lightning had not hidden the stars and revealed it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this flashed like lightning through his mind.
-- Both were watching each other, but when their eyes met, quick as lightning they looked away.
-- There were flashes of lightning every minute and each flash lasted while one could count five.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she said, turningon me with her lightning eyes.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This before Gabriel's eyes was a rick of straw, loosely put together, and the flames darted into it with lightning swiftness.
-- The lightning works instantaneously.
-- The lightning now was the colour of silver, and gleamed in the heavens like a mailed army.
-- It is not very dark when the lightning has been gone a bit."
-- The lightning had struck the tree.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this happened with lightning speed.
-- Those words, and the way in which M. d'Ajuda flung himself back in the carriage, were like a lightning flash and a thunderbolt for her; she walked back again with a deadly fear gnawing at her heart.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During this short voyage I saw the lightning playing on the summit of Mont Blanc in the most beautiful figures.
-- It was echoed from Saleve, the Juras, and the Alps of Savoy; vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making 82 Frankensteinit appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And again, they loomed large, rushing at her with lightning speed.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gretel, however, ran like lightning to Hansel, opened his little stable, and cried: 'Hansel, we are saved!The old witch is dead!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Imagination can figure nothing so grand, so sur-prising, and so astonishing!it looked as if ten thousand flashes of lightning were darting at the same time from ev-ery quarter of the sky.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two or three lamps were rained out and blown out; so, both saw the lightning to advantage as it quivered and zigzagged on the iron tracks.
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