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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, not to trouble the reader with a particular account of my distresses, let it suffice, that on the fifth day Iarrived at the last island in my sight, which lay south-south-east to the former.
-- This island was at a greater distance than I expected, and I did not reach it in less than five hours.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 4 WE START ON THE JOURNEY "You see, the whole island is composed of volcanoes," said the Professor, "and remark carefully that they all bear the name of Yocul.
-- But one thing struck his fancy, and that was a certain singular steeple situated on the Island of Amak, which is the southeast quarter of the city of Copenhagen.
-- On the eighth day, the captain made out Myganness, the westernmost of the isles, and from that moment headed direct for Portland, a cape on the southern shores of the singular island for which we were bound.
-- But, really, to turn to another subject, I hope you will not leave our island without examining into its mineralogical riches."
-- In the early days of summer, the female of the eider, a pretty sort of duck, builds its nest amid the rocks of the fjords--the name given to all narrow gulfs in Scandinavian countries--with which every part of the island is indented.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The day came, and the She-Wolf in the Capitol might have snarled with envy to see how the Island Savages contrived these things now-a-days.
-- But really, when I hear it remarked in several companies, and in very good company, that however worthy of a foreigner, it is not worthy of the spirit of an Englishman to remain in the Marshalsea when the glorious liberties of his island home admit of his removal to the Bench, I thought I would depart from the narrow professional line marked out to me, and mention it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes,' was all he said, but he turned and strained his eyes to see the island which a greater usurper than even Napo-leon now made interesting in his sight.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these, with all the attending marvels of a thousand Patagonian sights and sounds, helped to sway me to my wish.
-- Queequeg was a native of Rokovoko, an island far away to the West and South.
-- The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl; and this punchbowl always forms the great central ornament on the braided mat where the feast is held.
-- Seeing himself placed next the Priest, and noting the ceremony, and thinking himself being Captain of a ship as having plain precedence over a mere island King, especially in the King's own house the Captain coolly proceeds to wash his hands in the punchbowl; taking it I suppose for a huge finger-glass.
-- Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summer time; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snow-shoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But how just has it been - and how should all men reflect, that when they compare their present condi-tions with others that are worse, Heaven may oblige them to make the exchange, and be convinced of their former felic-ity by their experience - I say, how just has it been, that the truly solitary life I reflected on, in an island of mere desola-tion, should be my lot, who had so often unjustly compared it with the life which I then led, in which, had I continued, I had in all probability been exceeding prosperous and rich.
-- We knew nothing where we were, or upon what land it was we were driven - whether an island or the main, whether inhabited or not inhabited.
-- that I was in an island -environed every way with the sea: no land to be seen except some rocks, which lay a great way off; and two small islands, less than this, which lay about three leagues to the west.
-- I found also that the island I was in was barren, and, as I saw good reason to believe, uninhabited except by wild beasts, of whom, however, I saw none.
-- In the interval of time while this was doing, I went out once at least every day with my gun, as well to divert myself as to see if I could kill anything fit for food; and, as near as I could, to acquaint myself with what the island produced.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of her order of mind would have been content to be cast away upon a desert island with a bundle of money, and only the long strain of starvation would have taught her that in some cases it could have no value.
-- A long, thin cloud of pink hung in midair, shaped like some island in a far-off sea.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jackson's Island is good enough for me; I know that island pretty well, and nobody ever comes there.
-- I changed to the Il-linois edge of the island to see what luck I could have, and I warn't disappointed.
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