moisture是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 潮湿， 湿气， 湿度，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：
-- The fine rain was falling, which, in any other country, would have soaked the ground; but here the air absorbed the moisture so wonderfully that the camp did not suffer in the least.
-- Moisture lacking, sap is lacking also.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was as when a man gives a great ox-hide all drenched in fat to his men, and bids them stretch it; whereon they stand round it in a ring and tug till the moisture leaves it, and the fat soaks in for the many that pull at it, and it is well stretched even so did the two sides tug the dead body hither and thither within the compass of but a little space the Trojans steadfastly set on dragging it into Ilius, while the Achaeans were no less so on taking it to their ships; and fierce was the fight between them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he urged, with a moisture that was not of business shining on his cheek.
-- As it advanced, the mender of roads would discern without sur-prise, that it was a shaggy-haired man, of almost barbarian aspect, tall, in wooden shoes that were clumsy even to the eyes of a mender of roads, grim, rough, swart, steeped in the mud and dust of many highways, dank with the marshy moisture of many low grounds, sprinkled with the thorns and leaves and moss of many byways through woods.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Except for the slight quiver of her lips and the moisture in her eyes that made them brighter, her smile was almost calm as she said: "How long it is since we've seen each other!"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pencroft also thought of mixing with the water some moisture from the titra's flesh which he had brought.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its activity in sucking the moisture from the rich damp sod was almost a process observable by the eye.
-- Every drop of moisture not in the men's bottles and flagons in the form of cider was raining as perspiration from their foreheads and cheeks.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What need had he for so many whenher darling Ashley rode in the rain with moisture dripping down his collar from the back of his cap?
-- How slowly the horse moved!The moisture from his slobbering mouth dripped down upon her hand.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have passed it really in my walks, twice or thrice; it lies in a hollow, between two hills: an elevated hollow, near a swamp, whose peaty moisture is said to answer all the purposes of embalming on the few corpses deposited there.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even now, when the boats pulled upon this whale, and perilously drew over his swaying flukes, and the lances were darted into him, they were followed by steady jets from the new made wound, which kept continually playing, while the natural spout-hole in his head was only at intervals, however rapid, sending its affrighted moisture into the air.
-- And if at such times you should think that you really perceived drops of moisture in the spout, how do you know that they are not merely condensed from its vapor; or how do you know that they are not those identical drops superficially lodged in the spout-hole fissure, which is countersunk into the summit of the whale's head?
-- The invariable moisture of my hair, while plunged in deep thought, after six cups of hot tea in my thin shingled attic, of an August noon; this seems an additional argument for the above supposition.
-- In this central expanse the sea presented that smooth satin-like surface, called a sleek, produced by the subtle moisture thrown off by the whale in his more quiet moods.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fog was much heavier than it had been in the early part of the night; and the atmosphere was so damp, that, although no rain fell, Oliver's hair and eyebrows, within a few minutes after leaving the house, had become stiff with the half-frozen moisture that was floating about.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a great comfort to me afterwards that I did so, for not one grain of what I sowed this time came to anything: for the dry months following, the earth having had no rain after the seed was sown, it had no moisture to assist its growth, and never came up at all till the wet season had come again, and then it grew as if it had been but newly sown.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he would take up his wife's threat again, and the wrinkles and moisture would return.
-- He breathed heavily and wiped the moisture from his face.
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