island是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 岛， 岛屿； (道路上的) 交通安全岛，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The night wore out, and, as he stood upon the bridge listening to the water as it splashed the river-walls of the Island of Paris, where the picturesque confusion of houses and cathedral shone bright in the light of the moon, the day came coldly, looking like a dead face out of the sky.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'One can spring about in the large shin-ing valleys!The Snow Queen has her summer-tent there; but her fixed abode is high up towards the North Pole, on the Island called Spitzbergen.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For him she was the one island not only of goodwill to him, but of love in the midst of the sea of hostility and jeering that surrounded him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would not deign to examine even the masterpieces of Elephanta, or the mysterious hypogea, concealed south-east from the docks, or those fine remains of Buddhist architecture, the Kanherian grottoes of the island of Salcette.
-- An hour after leaving Bombay the train had passed the viaducts and the Island of Salcette, and had got into the open country.
-- She had, it seems, a Parsee relation, who was one of the principal merchants of Hong Kong, which is wholly an English city, though on an island on the Chinese coast.
-- The mountainous and craggy islets intercepted the beauties of this noble island from the view of the travellers.
-- The island of Singapore is not imposing in aspect, for there are no mountains; yet its appearance is not without attractions.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On their evenings off they went economically to an imitation Coney Island beside a scummy and stinking lake, and with grave pleasure they ate Hot Dogs, painstakingly they rode the scenic railway.
-- McGurk would slip away from a conference affecting the commerce of a whole West Indian island to sit on a high stool, silent, and watch Gottlieb work.
-- There was no sickness on it all the way; there was no reason why at Marseilles it should not lie next to a tramp steamer, nor why that steamer, pitching down to Montevideo with nothing more sensational than a discussion between the supercargo and the second officer in the matter of a fifth ace, should not berth near the S.S. Pendown Castle, bound for the island of St. Hubert to add cocoa to its present cargo of lumber.
-- No one liked to shake hands with his oldest friend; everyone fled from everyone else, though the rats loyally stayed with them; and through the island galloped the Panic, which is more murderous than its brother, the Plague.
-- IV The epidemic in St. Hubert must have increased, for on the day before the McGurk Commission sailed, Dr. Inchcape Jones declared that the island was quarantined.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'For the love of goodness, child,' exclaimed my aunt, 'don't call thewoman by that South Sea Island name!If she married and got ridof it, which was the best thing she could do, why don't you giveher the benefit of the change?
-- 'I am about to establish myself in one of the provincial towns of ourfavoured island (where the society may be described as a happy 490admixture of the agricultural and the clerical), in immediateconnection with one of the learned professions.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the whole island there were but three miserable huts, and one of these was vacant when I arrived.
-- This letter in a degree recalled me to life, and I determined to quit my island at the expiration of two days.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For even as Andersonville was a name that stank in the North, so was Rock Island one to bring terror to theheart of any Southerner who had relatives imprisoned there.
-- Betray his own Confederacy by taking that vile oathand then betray his word to the Yankees!I would rather know he was dead at Rock Island than hear he had taken thatoath.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This piece of water (with an island in the middle which might have been the salad for supper) was of a circular form, and he had constructed a fountain in it, which, when you set a little mill going and took a cork out of a pipe, played to that powerful extent that it made the back of your hand quite wet.
-- While Miss Skiffins was taking off her bonnet (she retained her green gloves during the evening as an outward and visible sign that there was company), Wemmick invited me to take a walk with him round the property, and see how the island looked in wintertime.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, in the midst of these intestine disquiets, we are threatened with an invasion from the island of Blefuscu, which is the other great empire of the universe, almost as large and pow-erful as this of his majesty.
-- he empire of Blefuscu is an island situated to the north-Teast of Lilliput, from which it is parted only by a channel of eight hundred yards wide.
-- But hurried on by the precipitancy of youth, and having his imperial majesty's license to pay my attendance upon the emperor of Blefuscu, I took this opportunity, before the three days were elapsed, to send a letter to my friend the secretary, signifying my resolution of setting out that morning for Blefuscu, pursuant to the leave I had got; and, without waiting for an answer, I went to that side of the island where our fleet lay.
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