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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was no wood to be found, however, but fortunately the rocks were covered with a poor, dry species of lichen.
-- "With the dead wood we cut off the tree."
-- Who will go and cut wood in the forest?"
-- Then stooping down and raising himself with a rapid motion, he made a violent current of air with his poncho, which made the wood take fire, and soon a bright flame roared in the improvised brasier.
-- In a moment, as if some fireworks were being ignited, the flame ran along the west side of the OMBU; the dead wood and nests of dried grass, and the whole sap, which was of a spongy texture, supplied food for its devouring activity.
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:
-- 'With a wood round it?'
-- Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a gray, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the dis-tance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream.
-- We'll teach these magnates that they cannot ride roughshod over the rights of the commoners, confound them!And I've closed the wood where the Fernworthy folk used to picnic.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was very little better off than she, but I sat up night after night with her, and nursed both mother and child; I used to go downstairs and steal wood for them from the house-por-ter.
-- 'And I have heard of YOU,' continued the prince, address-ing Ivan Petrovitch, 'that when some of your villagers were burned out you gave them wood to build up their houses again, though they were no longer your serfs and had be-haved badly towards you.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They cut out the thigh-bones, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, set some pieces of raw meat on the top of them, and then Chryses laid them on the wood fire and poured wine over them, while the young men stood near him with five-pronged spits in their hands.
-- The Trojans led by him and by Iamenus, Orestes, Adamas the son of Asius, Thoon and Oenomaus, raised a loud cry of battle and made straight for the wall, holding their shields of dry ox-hide above their heads; for a while the two de-fenders remained inside and cheered the Achaeans on to stand firm in the defence of their ships; when, however, they saw that the Trojans were attacking the wall, while the Dan-aans were crying out for help and being routed, they rushed outside and fought in front of the gates like two wild boars upon the mountains that abide the attack of men and dogs, and charging on either side break down the wood all round them tearing it up by the roots, and one can hear the clat-tering of their tusks, till some one hits them and makes an end of them even so did the gleaming bronze rattle about their breasts, as the weapons fell upon them; for they fought with great fury, trusting to their own prowess and to those who were on the wall above them.
-- Pisander then seized the bronze battle-axe, with its long and polished handle of olive wood that hung by his side under his shield, and the two made at one another.
-- All who had been cutting wood bore logs, for so Meriones squire to Idomeneus had bidden them, and they threw them down in a line upon the seashore at the place where Achilles would make a mighty monument for Patroclus and for himself.
-- When they had thrown down their great logs of wood over the whole ground, they stayed all of them where they were, but Achilles ordered his brave Myrmidons to gird on their armour, and to yoke each man his horses; they there-fore rose, girded on their armour and mounted each his chariot they and their charioteers with them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Some rough vessels of lava and wood stood about the floor, and one on a rough stool.
-- I had risen and breakfasted early, having been aroused by the noise of three Beast Men carrying wood into the enclosure.
-- Behind me lay the yard, vividly black-and-white in the moonlight, and the pile of wood and faggots on which Moreau and his mutilated victims lay, one over another.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And a doe leaped up, and a doe leaped up From the pond in the wood where the wild deer sup.
-- So Baloo, the Teacher of the Law, taught him the Wood and Water Laws: how to tell a rotten branch from a sound one; how to speak politely to the wild bees when he came upon a hive of them fifty feet above ground; what to say to Mang the Bat when he disturbed him in the branches at midday; and how to warn the water-snakes in the pools before he splashed down among them.
-- You could still trace the stone causeways that led up to the ruined gates where the last splinters of wood hung to the worn, rusted hinges.
-- Thou smellest of wood smoke and cattle al-together like a man already.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He set aside the hatchet and picked up the plane to make the wood smooth and even, but as he drew it to and fro, he heard the same tiny voice.
-- CHAPTER 2 Mastro Cherry gives the piece of wood to his friend Geppetto, who takes it to make himself a Marionette that will dance, fence, and turn somersaults.
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