moonlight是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 月 光,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:
-- Where-at Hugo ran from the house, crying to his grooms that they should saddle his mare and unkennel the pack, and giving the hounds a kerchief of the maid's, he swung them to the line, and so off full cry in the moonlight over the moor.
-- We saw him for a long time in the moonlight until he was only a small speck moving swiftly among the boulders upon the side of a distant hill.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had already encountered some of these creatures, once during my moonlight flight from the Leopard-man, and once during my pursuit by Moreau on the previous day.
-- They were already indistinct in the mist of the moonlight before Montgomery halted.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The moonlight was blocked out of the mouth of the cave, for Shere Khan's great square head and shoulders were thrust into the entrance.
-- Sometimes a mother would push her cub far out into the moonlight to be sure that he had not been overlooked.
-- Then Kala Nag reached the crest of the ascent and stopped for a minute, and Little Toomai could see the tops of the trees lying all speckled and furry under the moonlight for miles and miles, and the blue-white mist over the river in the hollow.
-- The moonlight showed it all iron gray, except where some elephants stood upon it, and their shadows were inky black.
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:
-- He only grasped his rifle more firmly, and fastened his eyes upon the nar-row opening, through which he gazed upon the moonlight view with increasing anxiety.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After lingering at the finger-post for a few minutes to see the stilts frisking away in the moonlight and the bearer of the drum toiling slowly after them, he blew a few notes upon the trumpet as a parting salute, and hastened with all speed to follow Mr Codlin.
-- cried Quilp, looking up at the old gateway, and showing in the moonlight like some monstrous image that had come down from its niche and was casting a backward glance at its old house, 'faster!'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "The moon was setting, and the dying moonlight and the first pallor of dawn were mingled in a ghastly half-light.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Just then the noise of horses topped the rise, and four or five riders came in sight in the moonlight and swept at full gallop down the slope.
-- A voice replied, telling him to keep out of the moonlight or he would get some lead in him, and at the same time a bullet whistled close by his arm.
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 grey sheen of the moonlight caught the stretch of water, dark boats plashed and moved.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'What a trifle scares you!It's surely no great cause of alarm that Heathcliff should take a moonlight saunter on the moors, or even lie too sulky to speak to us in the hay loft.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was the most romantic thing I ever saw the river, the bridge of boats, the great fortress opposite, moonlight everywhere, and music fit to melt a heart of stone.
-- Since then I've begun to feel that the moonlight walks, balcony talks, and daily adventures were something more to him than fun.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was while gliding through these latter waters that one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery silence, not a solitude; on such a silent night a silvery jet was seen far in advance of the white bubbles at the bow.
-- For of these moonlight nights, it was his wont to mount to the main-mast head, and stand a look-out there, with the same precision as if it had been day.
-- Now, with elated step, they pace the planks in twos and threes, and humorously discourse of parlors, sofas, carpets, and fine cambrics; propose to mat the deck; think of having hanging to the top; object not to taking tea by moonlight on the piazza of the forecastle.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had been to several families that morning in hopes of procuring some addition to their number, but it was moonlight and every body was full of engagements.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Besides, you know, you'll be in costume, and that makes all the difference in the world; Juliet's in a bal-cony, enjoying the moonlight before she goes to bed, and she's got on her night- gown and her ruffled nightcap.
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