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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lightning never ceases to flash for a single instant.
-- The awful and hideous storm still continues; the lightning has increased in vividness, and pours out its fiery wrath like a brood of serpents let loose in the atmosphere.
-- To judge by the air which, as it were, whipped my face, we must have been rushing at a perfectly lightning rate.
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：
-- But even in its sleep it was an uneasy, cruel world, stirring with the noise of a train or some great lorry on the road, and flashing with some rosy lightning flash from the furnaces.
-- The thunder had ceased outside, but the rain which had abated, suddenly came striking down, with a last blench of lightning and mutter of departing storm.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mistress Affery, whose fear of thunder and lightning was only to be equalled by her dread of the haunted house with a premature and preternatural darkness in it, stood undecided whether to go in or not, until the question was settled for her by the door blowing upon her in a violent gust of wind and shutting her out.
-- The thunder and lightning had long ago passed over, but the rain was furious.
-- Let me never feel, while I am still alive, that I die before his face, and utterly perish away from him, like one consumed by lightning and swallowed by an earthquake.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "With speed he flew to my relief,As on a radiant dolphin borne;Awful, yet bright, as lightning shoneThe face of my Deliverer God.
-- It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and without wrenching a single twig, peels and grooves out the bark from top to bottom, ere running off into the soil, leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded.
-- And they stuck to it till they did gain it; when instantly, a swift tremor was felt running like lightning along the keel, as the strained line, scraping beneath the ship, suddenly rose to view under her bows, snapping and quivering; and so flinging off its drippings, that the drops fell like bits of broken glass on the water, while the whale beyond also rose to sight, and once more the boats were free to fly.
-- Holding by a shroud, Starbuck was standing on the quarter-deck; at every flash of the lightning glancing aloft, to see what additional disaster might have befallen the intricate hamper there; while Stubb and Flask were directing the men in the higher hoisting and firmer lashing of the boats.
-- Now, as the lightning rod to a spire on shore is intended to carry off the perilous fluid into the soil; so the kindred rod which at sea some ships carry to each mast, is intended to conduct it into the water.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was preparing to ascend a steep staircase, or rather ladder, leading to another floor of warehouses above: when a bright flash of lightning streamed down the aperture, and a peal of thunder followed, which shook the crazy building to its centre.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the same time it happened, after I had laid my scheme for the setting up my tent, and making the cave, that a storm of rain falling from a thick, dark cloud, a sud-den flash of lightning happened, and after that a great clap of thunder, as is naturally the effect of it.
-- I was not so much surprised with the lightning as I was with the thought which darted into my mind as swift as the lightning itself - Oh, my powder!My very heart sank within me when I thought that, at one blast, all my powder might be destroyed; on which, not my defence only, but the providing my food, as I thought, entirely depended.
-- It was in the middle of May, on the sixteenth day, I think, as well as my poor wood-en calendar would reckon, for I marked all upon the post still; I say, it was on the sixteenth of May that it blew a very great storm of wind all day, with a great deal of lightning and thunder, and; a very foul night it was after it.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, they rub an old tin lamp or an iron ring, and then the genies come tearing in, with the thunder and lightning a-ripping around and the smoke a-rolling, and everything they're told to do they up and do it.
-- When the lightning glared out we could see a big straight river ahead, and high, rocky bluffs on both sides.
-- The lightning showed us the wreck again just in time, and we fetched the stabboard derrick, and made fast there.
-- After a long time the rain let up, but the clouds stayed, and the lightning kept whimpering, and by and by a flash showed us a black thing ahead, float-ing, and we made for it.
-- It was Jack-o'-lanterns, or lightning bugs; so he set down again, and went to watching, same as before.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It thundered, and bright flashes of lightning now and again shot across the sky, turning it into a sea of fire.
-- The thunder was so noisy and the lightning so bright--and I was hungry.
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