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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day, however, as he was lying half asleep in the warm water somewhere off the Island of Juan Fernandez, he felt faint and lazy all over, just as human people do when the spring is in their legs, and he remembered the good firm beaches of Novastoshnah seven thousand miles away, the games his companions played, the smell of the seaweed, the seal roar, and the fighting.
-- 'I suppose it is rather awful from your way of looking at it, but if you seals will come here year after year, of course the men get to know of it, and unless you can find an island where no men ever come you will always be driven.'
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：
-- 'This beast, I rather conclude, friend, is not of home rais-ing, but is from foreign lands, or perhaps from the little island itself over the blue water?'
-- he said, in a voice as re-markable for the softness and sweetness of its tones, as was his person for its rare proportions; 'I may speak of these things, and be no braggart; for I have been down at both havens; that which is situate at the mouth of Thames, and is named after the capital of Old England, and that which is called 'Haven', with the addition of the word 'New'; and have seen the scows and brigantines collecting their droves, like the gathering to the ark, being outward bound to the Island of Jamaica, for the purpose of barter and traffic in four-footed animals; but never before have I beheld a beast which verified the true scripture war-horse like this: 'He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength; he goeth on to meet the armed men.
-- * In the state of Rhode Island there is a bay called Narra-gansett, so named after a powerful tribe of Indians, which formerly dwelt on its banks.
-- The rocky island and the two caverns are known to every traveler, since the former sustains the pier of a bridge, which is now thrown across the river, immediately above the fall.
-- While he was in the act of making this movement, the Indians, as if changing their purpose by a common im-pulse, broke away from the chasm in a body, and were heard rushing up the island again, toward the point whence they had originally descended.
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：
-- "Sometimes I've thought of an island lost in a boundless sea, where I could live in some hidden valley, among strange trees, in silence.
-- Her tranquillity was like the sullen calm that broods over an island which has been swept by a hurricane.
-- It would seem that my visit to this remote island should immediately revive my interest in Strickland, but the work I was engaged in occupied my attention to the exclusion of something that was irrelevant, and it was not till I had been there some days that I even remembered his connection with it.
-- Ten miles away the island of Murea, like some high fastness of the Holy Grail, guarded its mystery.
-- The beauty of the island is unveiled as diminishing distance shows you in distincter shape its lovely peaks, but it keeps its secret as you sail by, and, darkly inviolable, seems to fold itself together in a stony, inaccessible grimness.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne 1874 Part 1 - Dropped from the Clouds Chapter 1 "Are we rising again?"
-- They were ignorant of what it was, whether an island or a continent, for they did not know to what part of the world the hurricane had driven them.
-- "An island, ever so big, is an island all the same!"
-- As to the land itself, island or continent, it appeared fertile, agreeable in its aspect, and varied in its productions.
-- He recounted all the events with which Cyrus was unacquainted, the last fall of the balloon, the landing on this unknown land, which appeared a desert (whatever it was, whether island or continent), the discovery of the Chimneys, the search for him, not forgetting of course Neb's devotion, the intelligence exhibited by the faithful Top, as well as many other matters.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was thinking that under no circumstances would she marry a convict on the island of Saghalin, but would settle down some other way--with some inspector, or clerk, or even the warden, or an assistant.
-- His fourth concern consisted in solving the question, Why, how and whence came that remarkable institution called the Criminal Court, to which was due the existence of that prison, with the inmates of which he had become somewhat familiar, and all those places of confinement, beginning with the fortress dedicated to two saints, Peter and Paul, and ending with the island of Saghalin, where hundreds and thousands of victims of that wonderful criminal law were languishing?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hillock, as I have said, was a kind of island in the forest.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Skeleton Island E.S.E.
-- Sitting by the fire in the housekeeper's room, I approached that island in my fancy from every possible direction; I explored every acre of its surface; I climbed a thousand times to that tall hill they call the Spy-glass, and from the top enjoyed the most wonderful and changing prospects.
-- "I'll tell you what I've heard myself," continued Captain Smollett: "that you have a map of an island, that there's crosses on the map to show where treasure is, and that the island lies " And then he named the latitude and longitude exactly.
-- We had run up the trades to get the wind of the island we were after I am not allowed to be more plain and now we were running down for it with a bright lookout day and night.
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