autumn是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 秋， 秋季； 成熟期， 渐衰期，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：
-- Even in dry seasons it is a danger to cross it, but after these autumn rains it is an awful place.
-- We hurried through the dark shrubbery, amid the dull moaning of the autumn wind and the rustle of the falling leaves.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Those of autumn the wind sheds upon the ground, but when spring returns the forest buds forth with fresh vines.
-- As the whole dark earth bows before some tempest on an autumn day when Jove rains his hardest to punish men for giving crooked judgement in their courts, and arriving justice therefrom without heed to the decrees of heaven all the rivers run full and the torrents tear many a new channel as they roar headlong from the mountains to the dark sea, and it fares ill with the works of men even such was the stress and strain of the Trojan horses in their flight.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a sudden overgrowth of atmospheric fungi which had their roots in the neighbouring sea, and by the time that horse, man, and corpse entered Yalbury Great Wood, these silent workings of an invisible hand had reached them, and they were completely enveloped, this being the first arrival of the autumn fogs, and the first fog of the series.
-- The air was rendered so transparent by the heavy fall of rain that the autumn hues of the middle distance were as rich as those near at hand, and the remote fields intercepted by the angle of the tower appeared in the same plane as the tower itself.
-- OAK'S ADVANCEMENT A GREAT HOPEThe later autumn and the winter drew on apace, and the leaves lay thick upon the turf of the glades and the mosses of the woods.
-- When the autumn sun slanted over Greenhill this morning and lighted the dewy flat upon its crest, nebulous clouds of dust were to be seen floating between the pairs of hedges which streaked the wide prospect around in all directions.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Autumn passed thus.
-- It was late in autumn when I quitted the district where I had so long resided.
-- You have travelled; you have spent several years of your 230 Frankensteinlife at Ingolstadt; and I confess to you, my friend, that when I saw you last autumn so unhappy, flying to solitude from the society of every creature, I could not help supposing that you might regret our connection and believe yourself bound in honour to fulfil the wishes of your parents, al-though they opposed themselves to your inclinations.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Up to three,I do very well but " Gerald hastily interrupted to change the subject He could feel his own daughters snickering behind his back asthey remembered in what condition he had come home from the Wilkeses' last barbecue the autumn before.
-- Learning that Ashley's wedding had been moved up from the autumn to the first of May, so he could leave withthe Troop as soon as it was called into service, Scarlett set the date of her wedding for the day before his.
-- Through the letters ran a wistful yearning to be back home at Twelve Oaks, and for pages he wrote of the hunting andthe long rides through the still forest paths under frosty autumn stars, the barbecues, the fish fries, the quiet ofmoonlight nights and the serene charm of the old house.
-- So the autumn months of 1862 went swiftly by with nursing, dancing, driving and bandage rolling taking up allthe time she did not spend on brief visits to Tara.
-- Autumn with its dusty, breathless heat was slipping in to choke the suddenly quiet town, adding its dry, pantingweight to tired, anxious hearts.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let LooseA late, dull autumn night was closing in upon the river Saone.
-- With an old sheepskin knapsack at his back, and a rough, unbarked stick cut out of some wood in his hand; miry, footsore, his shoes and gaiters trodden out, his hair and beard untrimmed; the cloak he carried over his shoulder, and the clothes he wore, sodden with wet; limping along in pain and difficulty; he looked as if the clouds were hurrying from him, as if the wail of the wind and the shuddering of the grass were directed against him, as if the low mysterious plashing of the water murmured at him, as if the fitful autumn night were disturbed by him.
-- Fellow TravellersIn the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps.
-- GoneOn a healthy autumn day, the Marshalsea prisoner, weak but otherwise restored, sat listening to a voice that read to him.
-- On a healthy autumn day; when the golden fields had been reaped and ploughed again, when the summer fruits had ripened and waned, when the green perspectives of hops had been laid low by the busy pickers, when the apples clustering in the orchards were russet, and the berries of the mountain ash were crimson among the yellowing foliage.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun was low, and the heavens glowed with the splendor of an autumn sunset.
-- But that autumn the serpent got into Meg's paradise, and tempted her like many a modern Eve, not with apples, but with dress.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A breath of soft spring wind went bounding over the road, rolling some brown twigs of the previous autumn before it.
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