wide是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 宽阔的; 睁大的; 远离的ad. 广阔地; 偏差地,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then in a fit of irritation I rose and went and flung the door wide open.
-- I had thought I should find the doors open, but they were closed, and as I stood in the wide entrance a carriage stopped outside, and a man in uniform you know the kind of personage with 'Omnium' on his cap flung open the door.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I left it there, with the water rippling round it, under the still stars, and giving it a wide berth pursued my way towards the yellow glow of the house; and presently, with a posi-tive effect of relief, came the pitiful moaning of the puma, the sound that had originally driven me out to explore this mysterious island.
-- The island, which was of irreg-ular outline and lay low upon the wide sea, had a total area, I suppose, of seven or eight square miles.
-- We crossed the ravine down which smoked the stream of hot water, and followed the winding pathway through the canebrakes until we reached a wide area covered over with a thick, powdery yellow substance which I believe was sul-phur.
-- Imagine the scene if you can!We three blue-clad men, with our misshapen black-faced attendant, standing in a wide expanse of sunlit yellow dust under the blazing blue sky, and surrounded by this circle of crouching and gestic-ulating monstrosities, some almost human save in their subtle expression and gestures, some like cripples, some so strangely distorted as to resemble nothing but the deni-zens of our wildest dreams; and, beyond, the reedy lines of a canebrake in one direction, a dense tangle of palm-trees on the other, separating us from the ravine with the huts, and to the north the hazy horizon of the Pacific Ocean.
-- The shadow of the wall lay, a yard wide and of inky blackness, at my feet.
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:
-- A wide and apparently an impervious boundary of forests severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England.
-- Perhaps no district throughout the wide extent of the intermediate frontiers can furnish a livelier picture of the cruelty and fierceness of the savage warfare of those periods than the country which lies between the head waters of the Hudson and the adjacent lakes.
-- * A wide frontier had been laid naked by this unexpected disaster, and more substantial evils were preceded by a thousand fanciful and imaginary dangers.
-- Duncan cast the wide shawl of Cora before a spectacle he so much loved to contemplate, and then suffered his own head to seek a pillow on the rock.
-- A fish-hawk, which, secure on the topmost branches of a dead pine, had been a distant spectator of the fray, now swooped from his high and ragged perch, and soared, in wide sweeps, above his prey; while a jay, whose noisy voice had been stilled by the hoarser cries of the savages, ventured again to open his discordant throat, as though once more in undisturbed possession of his wild domains.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However wide awake they may have been before they entered that sleepy region, they are sure, in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative, to dream dreams, and see apparitions.
-- The wide bosom of the Tappan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shallow of the distant mountain.
-- On one side of the church extends a wide woody dell, along which raves a large brook among broken rocks and trunks of fallen trees.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He told me with grim humour of the time he had spent acting as guide to Cockneys who wanted to see the night side of life in Paris; it was an occupation that appealed to his sardonic temper and somehow or other he had acquired a wide acquaintance with the more disreputable quarters of the city.
-- The streets were wide and empty; for two hundred years the place had been dying, but the houses had the homely stateliness of their time.
-- She looked upon venery as the natural occupation for men and women, and was ever ready with precept and example from her own wide experience.
-- Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves.
-- The door was wide open.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Five days had passed when a partial clearing allowed them to see the wide extending ocean beneath their feet, now lashed into the maddest fury by the gale.
-- Between these beautiful trees sprang up clusters of firs, whose opaque open parasol boughs spread wide around.
-- The east part of the shore, where the castaways had landed, formed a wide bay, terminated by a sharp cape, which had been concealed by a high point from Pencroft on his first exploration.
-- It was a wide extent of marshy land, and they would probably find good sport, for water- birds ought to swarm there.
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