wood是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 木材, 木头, 木料; (pl. ) 森林, 林地,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hunger was pushed out of the tall houses, in the wretched clothing that hung upon poles and lines; Hunger was patched into them with straw and rag and wood and paper; Hunger was repeated in every frag-ment of the small modicum of firewood that the man sawed off; Hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys, and started up from the filthy street that had no offal, among its refuse, of anything to eat.
-- He was quiet and attentive; watched the 87opening proceedings with a grave interest; and stood with his hands resting on the slab of wood before him, so com-posedly, that they had not displaced a leaf of the herbs with which it was strewn.
-- High vaulted rooms with cool uncarpeted floors, great dogs upon the hearths for the burning of wood in winter time, and all luxuries befitting the state of a mar-quis in a luxurious age and country.
-- Down, and up, and head foremost on the steps of the building; now, on his knees; now, on his feet; now, on his back; dragged, and struck at, and stifled by the bunches of grass and straw that were thrust into his face by hundreds of hands; torn, bruised, panting, bleeding, yet always en-treating and beseeching for mercy; now full of vehement agony of action, with a small clear space about him as the people drew one another back that they might see; now, a log of dead wood drawn through a forest of legs; he was hauled to the nearest street corner where one of the fatal lamps swung, and there Madame Defarge let him go as a cat might have done to a mouse and silently and com-posedly looked at him while they made ready, and while he besought her: the women passionately screeching at him all 319the time, and the men sternly calling out to have him killed with grass in his mouth.
-- He sat by a newly-lighted wood fire (the blighted and unfruitful year was prematurely cold), and on his hon-est and courageous face there was a deeper shade than the 368 A tale of two citiespendent lamp could throw, or any object in the room dis-tortedly reflect a shade of horror.
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:
-- The Fir Tree stood quite still and absorbed in thought; the birds in the wood had never related the like of this.
-- 'I came from the wood this winter; I am in my prime, and am only rather short for my age.'
-- The wood flamed up splendidly under the large brewing copper, and it sighed so deeply!Each sigh was like a shot.
-- He was dragging along some pointed flat pieces of ice, which he laid together in all possible ways, for he wanted to make some-thing with them; just as we have little flat pieces of wood to make geometrical figures with, called the Chinese Puz-zle.
-- And the first green buds appeared, the first little birds began to chirrup; and out of the wood came, riding on a magnificent horse, which Gerda knew (it was one of the leaders in the golden carriage), a young damsel with a bright-red cap on her head, and armed with pistols.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The cowherd girls, picking up their petticoats, ran splashing through the mud with bare legs, still white, not yet brown from the sun, waving brush wood in their hands, chasing the calves that frolicked in the mirth of spring.
-- Was it not youth to feel as he felt now, when coming from the other side to the edge of the wood he saw in the glowing light of the slanting sunbeams the gracious figure of Varenka in her yellow gown with her basket, walking lightly by the trunk of an old birch tree, and when this impression of the sight of Varenka blended so harmoniously with the beauty of the view, of the yellow oatfield lying bathed in the slanting sunshine, and beyond it the distant ancient forest flecked with yellow and melting into the blue of the distance?
-- In the middle of the wood there are always fewer, though."
-- In front of the openings of the hives, it made his eyes giddy to watch the bees and drones whirling round and round about the same spot, while among them the working bees flew in and out with spoils or in search of them, always in the same direction into the wood to the flowering lime trees and back to the hives.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was necessary to have dry wood to keep the steam up to the adequate pressure, and on that day the poop, cabins, bunks, and the spare deck were sacrificed.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now he was diverted by what he considered its foreignness: the lofty walls of wood painted a watery blue, the wide furnitureless spaces, the bougainvillaea at the window, and in the courtyard the merciless heat and rattling metallic leaves of palmettoes.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But now, strange to say, in the shafts of such a cart he saw a thin little sorrel beast, one of those peasants' nags which he had often seen straining their utmost under a heavy load of wood or hay, especially when the wheels were stuck in the mud or in a rut.
-- This pledge was, however, only a smoothly planed piece of wood the size and thick-ness of a silver cigarette case.
-- He picked up this piece of wood in one of his wanderings in a courtyard where there 104 Crime and Punishmentwas some sort of a workshop.
-- Afterwards he had added to the wood a thin smooth piece of iron, which he had also picked up at the same time in the street.
-- On the string were two crosses, one of Cyprus wood and one of copper, and an image in sil-ver filigree, and with them a small greasy chamois leather purse with a steel rim and ring.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Of all the moveables in it, I must havebeen most impressed by a certain old bureau of some dark wood inthe parlour (the tile-floored kitchen was the general sitting-room),with a retreating top which opened, let down, and became a desk,within which was a large quarto edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
-- The Doctor, who made as much of my going away as if I weregoing to China, received me as an honoured guest; and called for alog of wood to be thrown on the fire, that he might see the face ofhis old pupil reddening in the blaze.
-- This is marriage, Trot; and Heaven bless you both in it,for a pair of babes in the wood as you are!'
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