hail是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. (下) 冰雹; (冰雹般) 一阵, 落下，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：
-- A stone stair led up to the door, the only opening; and narrow as this door was, the hurricane, and snow, and hail found their way in when the TEMPORALES were unchained in the mountains.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As his eyes rested on a short, slight, pretty fig-ure, a quantity of golden hair, a pair of blue eyes that met his 27own with an inquiring look, and a forehead with a singular capacity (remembering how young and smooth it was), of rifting and knitting itself into an expression that was not quite one of perplexity, or wonder, or alarm, or merely of a bright fixed attention, though it included all the four ex-pressions-as his eyes rested on these things, a sudden vivid likeness passed before him, of a child whom he had held in his arms on the passage across that very Channel, one cold time, when the hail drifted heavily and the sea ran high.
-- He and the mender of roads sat on the heap of stones looking silently at one another, with the hail driving in be-tween them like a pigmy charge of bayonets, until the sky began to clear over the village.
-- The man slept on, indifferent to showers of hail and -in326 A tale of two citiestervals of brightness, to sunshine on his face and shadow, to the paltering lumps of dull ice on his body and the dia-monds into which the sun changed them, until the sun was low in the west, and the sky was glowing.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The weather had become worse than ever towards evening; the hail lashed the drenched mare so cruelly that she went along sideways, shaking her head and ears; but Levin was all right under his hood, and he looked cheerfully about him at the muddy streams running under the wheels, at the drops hanging on every bare twig, at the whiteness of the patch of unmelted hailstones on the planks of the bridge, at the thick layer of still juicy, fleshy leaves that lay heaped up about the stripped elm-tree.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What yawns and dozes I lapsed into, in spite of all my care; whatstarts I came out of concealed sleeps with; what answers I nevergot, to little observations that I rarely made; what a blank space Iseemed, which everybody overlooked, and yet was in everybody's 119way; what a heavy relief it was to hear Miss Murdstone hail thefirst stroke of nine at night, and order me to bed!
-- He appears to me to have lived in a hail of sauce-pan-lids.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Swimming with his right arm, he held up his left to hail them, splashing upon the waves, and shouting with all his might.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There being to my knowledge a respectable lodging-house in Essex Street, the back of which looked into the Temple, and was almost within hail of my windows, I first of all repaired to that house, and was so fortunate as to secure the second floor for my uncle, Mr. Provis.
-- We should know at what time to expect them, according to where we were, and would hail the first; so that, if by any accident we were not taken abroad, we should have another chance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After allowing herself to be betrayed into these evidences of emotion, she would force a lambent brightness, and would be fitfully cheerful, and would say, 'You have still good spirits, sir, I am thankful to find;' and would appear to hail it as a blessed dispensation that Mr. Bounderby bore up as he did.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its movables were ugly old chairs with worn-out seats, and ugly old chairs without any seats; a threadbare patternless carpet, a maimed table, a crippled wardrobe, a lean set of fire-irons like the skeleton of a set deceased, a washing-stand that looked as if it had stood for ages in a hail of dirty soapsuds, and a bedstead with four bare atomies of posts, each terminating in a spike, as if for the dismal accommodation of lodgers who might prefer to impale themselves.
-- There, were many whose shillings had gone into his pocket to buy him meat and drink; but none who were now obtrusively Hail fellow well met!with him, on the strength of that assistance.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passers-by probably thought them a pair of harmless lunatics, for they entirely forgot to hail a bus, and strolled leisurely along, oblivious of deepening dusk and fog.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But neither great Washington, nor Napoleon, nor Nelson, will answer a single hail from below, however madly invoked to befriend by their counsels the distracted decks upon which they gaze; however it may be surmised, that their spirits penetrate through the thick haze of the future, and descry what shoals and what rocks must be shunned.
-- At 'em again!There, take this copper-pump, and hail 'em through it.
-- The wind increased to a howl; the waves dashed their bucklers together; the whole squall roared, forked, and crackled around us like a white fire upon the prairie, in which, unconsumed, we were burning; immortal in these jaws of death!In vain we hailed the other boats; as well roar to the live coals down the chimney of a flaming furnace as hail those boats in that storm.
-- Standing in iron hoops nailed to the mast, they swayed and swung over a fathomless sea; and though, when the ship slowly glided close under our stern, we six men in the air came so nigh to each other that we might almost have leaped from the mast-heads of one ship to those of the other; yet, those forlorn-looking fishermen, mildly eyeing us as they passed, said not one word to our own look-outs, while the quarter-deck hail was being heard from below.
-- And as for Pirates, when they chance to cross each other's cross-bones, the first hail is "How many skulls?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One wretched breathless child, panting with exhaustion; terror in his looks; agony in his eyes; large drops of perspiration streaming down his face; strains every nerve to make head upon his pursuers; and as they follow on his track, and gain upon him every instant, they hail his decreasing strength with joy.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hail no remedy but to go on: I had got into an employment quite remote to my genius, and directly contrary to the life I delighted in, and for which I forsook my father's house, and broke through all his good advice.
-- As soon as they came within call of the ship, he made Robinson hail them, and tell them they had brought off the men and the boat, but that it was a long time before they had found them, and the like, hold-ing them in a chat till they came to the ship's side; when the captain and the mate entering first with their arms, imme-diately knocked down the second mate and carpenter with the butt-end of their muskets, being very faithfully second-ed by their men; they secured all the rest that were upon the main and quarter decks, and began to fasten the hatches, to keep them down that were below; when the other boat and their men, entering at the forechains, secured the fore-castle of the ship, and the scuttle which went down into the cook-room, making three men they found there prisoners.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter XVIII JUST OVER THE BORDER--A HAIL AND FAREWELL By the evening of the 16th the subtle hand of Hurstwood had made itself apparent.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made two mile and a half, and then struck out a quarter of a mile or more towards the middle of the river, because pretty soon I would be passing the ferry landing, and people might see me and hail me.
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