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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As the north wind, blowing on an orchard that has been sodden with autumn rain, soon dries it, and the heart of the owner is glad even so the whole plain was dried and the dead bodies were consumed.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That autumn he left the beach as soon as he could, and set off alone because of a notion in his bullet-head.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But because I have learnt that man is incalculable, I should not at this time of day be so surprised by the news that reached me when in the early autumn I returned to London.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The sun rising above a clear horizon, announced a magnificent day, one of those beautiful autumn days which are like the last farewells of the warm season.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a gloomy autumn evening, and he thought the old place had never looked so dismal as in its dreary twilight.
-- It was a fine, clear, autumn morning, when they came upon the scene of his promotion, and stopped to contemplate its beauties.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a dark, rainy, windy, autumn night.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to wear them round your neck nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection; and for number, I am sure they were like autumn leaves, so that my back ached with stooping and my fingers with sorting them out.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The car was running along a broad white road, between autumn trees.
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