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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For instance, I have read somewhere, that in 1793, in this very province of Buenos Ayres, lightning struck thirty-seven times during one single storm.
-- A lightning conductor would be very serviceable to us at present.
-- The incessant flashes of lightning took various forms.
-- A few flashes of lightning glanced across the horizon and distant thunder pealed through the darkened sky.
-- The New Zealanders think that thunder is the angry voice of Noui-Atoua, and lightning the fierce gleam of his eyes.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I dare swear she has had a good laugh at YOU before now!You were having a quiet talk just now, I observed, after all the thunder and lightning upstairs.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He showed us favourable signs by flashing his lightning on our right hands; therefore let none make haste to go till he has first lain with the wife of some Trojan, and avenged the toil and sorrow that he has suffered for the sake of Helen.
-- Then he thundered aloud from Ida, and sent the glare of his lightning upon the Achaeans; when they saw this, pale fear fell upon them and they were sore afraid.
-- It will take them all ten years to heal the wounds my lightning shall inflict upon them; my grey-eyed daughter will then learn what quarrelling with her father means.
-- It will take you all ten years to heal the wounds his lightning will inflict upon you, that you may learn, grey-eyed goddess, what quarrelling with your father means.
-- As when fair Juno's lord flashes his lightning in token of great rain or hail or snow when the snow-flakes whiten the ground, or again as a sign that he will open the wide jaws of hungry war, even so did Agamemnon heave many a heavy sigh, for his soul trembled within him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The question shot like lightning across a tumultuous sky; and suddenly the clouded horror of my mind condensed into a vivid realisa-tion of my own danger.
-- 'His is the lightning flash,' we sang.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Matkah taught him to follow the cod and the halibut along the under-sea banks and wrench the rockling out of his hole among the weeds; how to skirt the wrecks lying a hundred fathoms below water and dart like a rifle bullet in at one porthole and out at an-other as the fishes ran; how to dance on the top of the waves when the lightning was racing all over the sky, and wave his flipper politely to the stumpy-tailed Albatross and the Man-of-war Hawk as they went down the wind; how to jump three or four feet clear of the water like a dolphin, flippers close to the side and tail curved; to leave the flying fish alone because they are all bony; to take the shoulder-piece out of a cod at full speed ten fathoms deep, and never to stop and look at a boat or a ship, but particularly a row-boat.
-- He picked up with an old stumpy-tailed albatross, who told him that Kerguelen Island was the very place for peace and quiet, and when Kotick went down there he was all but smashed to pieces against some wicked black cliffs in a heavy sleet-storm with lightning and thunder.
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：
-- There is no whine of the panther, no whistle of the catbird, nor any invention of the devilish Mingoes, that can cheat me!I have heard the forest moan like mortal men in their affliction; often, and again, have I listened to the wind play-ing its music in the branches of the girdled trees; and I have heard the lightning cracking in the air like the snapping of blazing brush as it spitted forth sparks and forked flames; but never have I thought that I heard more than the plea-sure of him who sported with the things of his hand.
-- The lightning is not quicker than was the flame from the rifle of Hawkeye; the limbs of the victim trembled and contracted, the head fell to the bosom, and the body parted the foam-ing waters like lead, when the element closed above it, in its ceaseless velocity, and every vestige of the unhappy Huron was lost forever.
-- Then Tamenund was a chief, and first laid aside the bow for the lightning of the pale faces ' 'Not yet then,' interrupted Cora, 'by many ages; I speak of a thing of yesterday.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then was heard the low rumbling of distant thunder, then the lightning quivered, and then the darkness of an hour seemed to have gathered in an instant.
-- 'Your ears ought to be better than other folks' at any rate, if you make so little of the chance of being struck blind,' he said, retreating from the door and shading his eyes with his hands as the jagged lightning came again.
-- 'No wonder,' said the man, 'with this lightning in one's eyes, by-the-by.
-- Sometimes one would look up to smile to another, or to snuff the feeble candle, or to glance at the lightning as it shot through the open window and fluttering curtain, or to listen to some louder peal of thunder than the rest, with a kind of momentary impatience, as if it put him out; but there they sat, with a calm indifference to everything but their cards, perfect philosophers in appearance, and with no greater show of passion or excitement than if they had been made of stone.
-- The storm had raged for full three hours; the lightning had grown fainter and less frequent; the thunder, from seeming to roll and break above their heads, had gradually died away into a deep hoarse distance; and still the game went on, and still the anxious child was quite forgotten.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And what a horrible night it was!It poured rain, it hailed, it thundered, and the lightning was so bright that it turned the night into day.
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