gravel是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 沙砾, 碎石，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 27 Anna was upstairs, standing before the looking glass, and, with Annushka's assistance, pinning the last ribbon on her gown when she heard carriage wheels crunching the gravel at the entrance.
-- They drove into a courtyard strewn with gravel and bright with flowers, in which two laborers were at work putting an edging of stones round the light mould of a flower bed, and drew up in a covered entry.
-- Levin's coachman, in his by no means new coat and shabby hat, with his ill-matched horses and his coach with the patched mud-guards, drove with gloomy determination into the covered gravel approach.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The headlights made ridiculously important a barbed-wire fence, a litter of milkweeds, a bleak reach of gravel road.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My aunt, with every sort of expression but wonder dischargedfrom her countenance, sat on the gravel staring at me, until I beganto cry; when she got up in a great hurry, collared me, and took meinto the parlour.
-- Where, for the first time in manyrevolving years, the overwhelming pressure of pecuniary liabilitieswas not proclaimed, from day to day, by importunate voicesdeclining to vacate the passage; where there was no knocker on thedoor for any creditor to appeal to; where personal service ofprocess was not required, and detainers were merely lodged at thegate!Gentlemen,' said Mr. Mi- cawber, 'when the shadow of thatiron-work on the summit of the brick structure has been reflectedon the gravel of the Parade, I have seen my children thread the 652mazes of the intricate pattern, avoiding the dark marks.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She came solitarily down the gravel walk a Miss Martin just appearing at the door, and parting with 226 Emmaher seemingly with ceremonious civility.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A gravel walk leading from the door to the road in front was encrusted at the sides with more moss here it was a silver-green variety, the nut-brown of the gravel being visible to the width of only a foot or two in the centre.
-- He entered the gravel path which would take him behind the tower.
-- The rays fell upon a group of male figures gathered upon the gravel in front, who, when they saw the newly-married couple in the porch, set up a loud "Hurrah!"
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As she stood watching them, hot eyed and dizzy, she heard the rapid pounding of ahorse's hooves on the front drive, the scattering of gravel and the sound of an excited voice calling a question to oneof the negroes.
-- The gravel flew again and across her vision a man on horseback galloped over the green lawn towardthe lazy group under the trees.
-- She felt the dust and gravel in her slippershurting her feet.
-- They had evidently spent the night under the trees insomeone's front yard, for a sand and gravel driveway stretched out before her, winding away under an avenue ofcedars.
-- If she could only be rid of her tight stays, the collar thatchoked her and the slippers still full of sand and gravel that blistered her feet.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have devoured all the treatises of Cassanion, and all those memoirs, pamphlets, speeches, and replies published in reference to the skeleton of Teutobochus, king of the Cimbri, the invader of Gaul, dug out of a gravel pit in Dauphine, in 1613.
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：
-- Clifford had had it newly gravelled with sifted gravel from the pit-bank.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How Jo did enjoy her 'wilderness of boys', and how poor, dear Aunt March would have lamented had she been there to see the sacred precincts of prim, well-ordered Plumfield overrun with Toms, Dicks, and Harrys!There was a sort of poetic justice about it, after all, for the old lady had been the terror of the boys for miles around, and now the exiles feasted freely on forbidden plums, kicked up the gravel with profane boots unreproved, and played cricket in the big field where the irritable 'cow with a crumpled horn' used to invite rash youths to come and be tossed.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have a sweet room here, Mr. Bingley, and a charming prospect over the gravel walk.
-- Mr. Collins and Charlotte appeared at the door, and the carriage stopped at the small gate which led by a short gravel walk to the house, amidst the nods and smiles of the whole party.
-- They proceeded in si-lence along the gravel walk that led to the copse; Elizabeth was determined to make no effort for conversation with a woman who was now more than usually insolent and dis-agreeable.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The place I was in was a most delightful cavity, or grotto, though perfectly dark; the floor was dry and level, and had a sort of a small loose gravel upon it, so that there was no nauseous or venomous creature to be seen, neither was there any damp or wet on the sides or roof.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had no park, but the pleasure-grounds were tolerably extensive; and like every other place of the same degree of importance, it had its open shrubbery, and closer wood walk, a road of smooth gravel winding round a plantation, led to the front, the lawn was dotted over with timber, the house itself was under the guardianship of the fir, the mountain-ash, and the acacia, and a thick screen of them altogether, interspersed with tall Lombardy poplars, shut out the offices.
-- Two delightful twilight walks on the third and fourth evenings of her being there, not merely on the dry gravel of the shrubbery, but all over the grounds, and especially in the most distant parts of them, where there was something more of wildness than in the rest, where the trees were the oldest, and the grass was the longest and wettest, had assisted by the still greater imprudence of sitting in her wet shoes and stockings given Marianne a cold so violent as, though for a day or two trifled with or denied, would force itself by increasing ailments on the concern of every body, and the notice of herself.
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