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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Madeira is an island too well known to be of much interest now to a geographer.
-- The appearance of the island through the thick veil of rain was mournful in the extreme.
-- "Make yourself easy about that, my dear Glenarvan; the best geographers have agreed to call the island the Australian Continent."
-- "Now," went on Paganel, "in all this immense space between this large island and the American coast, there is only one solitary barren little island crossed by the 37th parallel."
-- Soon the principal island stood out from the rocky mass, at the summit of a triangle inclining toward the northeast.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There is an old tin mine on an island in the heart of the mire.
-- Many traces we found of him in the bog-girt island where he had hid his savage ally.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All day long from morn till eve, was I falling, till at sunset I came to ground in the island of Lemnos, and there I lay, with very little life left in me, till the Sintians came and tended me.'
-- And those that held Methone and Thaumacia, with Meli-boea and rugged Olizon, these were led by the skilful archer Philoctetes, and they had seven ships, each with fifty oars-men all of them good archers; but Philoctetes was lying in great pain in the Island of Lemnos, where the sons of the Achaeans left him, for he had been bitten by a poisonous water snake.
-- Never yet was I so pas-sionately enamoured of you as at this moment not even when I first carried you off from Lacedaemon and sailed away with you not even when I had converse with you upon the couch of love in the island of Cranae was I so en-thralled by desire of you as now.'
-- As the smoke that goes up into heaven from some city that is being beleaguered on an island far out at sea all day long do men sally from the city and fight their hardest, and at the going down of the sun the line of beacon-fires blazes forth, flaring high for those that dwell near them to behold, if so be that they may come with their ships and succour them even so did the light flare from the head of Achilles, as he stood by the trench, going beyond the wall but he aid not join the Achaeans for he heeded the charge which his mother laid upon him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
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-- The only island known to exist in the region in which my uncle was picked up is Noble's Isle, a small volcanic islet and uninhabited.
-- What the devil want beasts for on an island like that?
-- Then I looked out at the darkling sea, where in the dimness his little island was hid-den.
-- I've done with this blessed island for evermore, amen!I've had enough of it.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seal Lullaby All these things happened several years ago at a place called Novastoshnah, or North East Point, on the Island of St. Paul, away and away in the Bering Sea.
-- Their wives never came to the island until late in May or early in June, for they did not care to be torn to pieces; and the young two-, three-, and four-year-old seals who had not begun housekeeping went inland about half a mile through the ranks of the fighters and played about on the sand dunes in droves and legions, and rubbed off every single green thing that grew.
-- 'I've often thought we should be much happier if we hauled out at Otter Island instead of this crowded place,' said Matkah.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The island was three mile long.
-- They turned around the foot of the island and start-ed up the channel on the Mis- souri side, under steam, and booming once in a while as they went.
-- When they got abreast the head of the island they quit shooting and dropped over to the Mis-souri shore and went home to the town.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 24 Pinocchio reaches the Island of the Busy Bees and finds the Fairy once more.
-- It was an island in the middle of the sea.
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