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：
-- Already when they ventured on the exposed part of the crest, they were saluted with a hail of shot which did not reach them.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Achilles then greeted them saying, 'All hail and welcome you must come upon some great matter, you, who for all my anger are still dearest to me of the Achaeans.'
-- As when fair Juno's lord flashes his lightning in token of great rain or hail or snow when the snow-flakes whiten the ground, or again as a sign that he will open the wide jaws of hungry war, even so did Agamemnon heave many a heavy sigh, for his soul trembled within him.
-- Iris, fleet as the wind, obeyed him, and as the cold hail or snowflakes that fly from out the clouds before the blast of Boreas, even so did she wing her way till she came close up to the great shaker of the earth.
-- One of these two springs is warm, and steam rises from it as smoke from a burning fire, but the other even in summer is as cold as hail or snow, or the ice that forms on water.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We thought the people on the launch would be better provisioned (though it seems they were not), and we tried to hail them.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother, For though they are little and fubsy, it may be the Bear is their mother.
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：
-- Once more the savage yells burst out of the woods, and the leaden hail whistled above the heads of the besieged, as if to confine them to a place where they might become easy victims to the enterprise of the warrior who had mounted the tree.
-- The Indian chief paused another moment to consider the signs of the contest, which was now rolling rapidly up the ascent, a certain evidence that the Delawares triumphed; nor did he actually quit the place until admonished of the proximity of his friends, as well as enemies, by the bullets of the former, which began to patter among the dried leaves on the ground, like the bits of falling hail which precede the bursting of the tempest.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, on the 2nd, peals of thunder were heard, the wind blew from the east, and hail rattled against the facade of Granite House like volleys of grape-shot.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A pitiless hail was hissing round me, and I was sitting on soft turf in front of the overset machine.
-- The rebounding, dancing hail hung in a little cloud over the machine, and drove along the ground like smoke.
-- As the columns of hail grew thinner, I saw the white figure more distinctly.
-- It seemed to advance and to recede as the hail drove before it denser or thinner.
-- At last I tore my eyes from it for a moment, and saw that the hail curtain had worn threadbare, and that the sky was lightening with the promise of the sun.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A hail on the land side.
-- Already the others had begun to lend an ear to this encouragement and were coming a little to themselves, when the same voice broke out again not this time singing, but in a faint distant hail that echoed yet fainter among the clefts of the Spy-glass.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ice, thrown high in the air, fell like hail around us.
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