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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They talked about the Pacific as boys would talk about a wood that they had been nutting in, and if anyone had understood them he could have gone away and made such a chart of that ocean as never was.
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:
-- The salt lake gave us its fish, the wood its deer, and the air its birds.
-- 'Such old foxes as Chingachgook and myself are not often caught in a barrow with one hole,' said Hawkeye, laughing; 'you can easily see the cunning of the place the rock is black limestone, which everybody knows is soft; it makes no uncomfortable pillow, where brush and pine wood is scarce; well, the fall was once a few yards below us, and I dare to say was, in its time, as regular and as handsome a sheet of water as any along the Hudson.
-- They had selected this point to make their descent, having borne the canoe through the wood around the cataract for that purpose.
-- The land had been cleared of wood for a reasonable distance around the work, but every other part of the scene lay in the green liv-ery of nature, except where the limpid water mellowed the view, or the bold rocks thrust their black and naked heads above the undulating outline of the mountain ranges.
-- Come,' he continued, turn- ing toward a curtain of the works; 'let us get into the ditch on this side, and be regardful to step on the stones and frag- ments of wood as you go.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter labors of their farms, helped to make hay, mend-ed the fences, took the horses to water, drove the cows from pasture, and cut wood for the winter fire.
-- But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cud-dling in the chimney corner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood fire, and where, of course, no spectre dared to show its face, it was dearly pur-chased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards.
-- As he ap-proached a little nearer, he thought he saw something white, hanging in the midst of the tree: he paused, and ceased whistling but, on looking more narrowly, perceived that it was a place where the tree had been scathed by lightning, and the white wood laid bare.
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:
-- There was a high dado of white wood and a green paper on which were etchings by Whistler in neat black frames.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But they searched in vain for wood or dry brambles; nothing but sand and stones were to be found.
-- There is wood in the forest, and eggs in nests; we have only to find a house."
-- The river became strong almost directly between the two walls of granite, which began to sink above the mouth; it then suddenly turned and disappeared beneath a wood of stunted trees half a mile off.
-- "Here is the water, and yonder is the wood we require!"
-- It was not even necessary to lop the trees, for enormous quantities of dead wood were lying at their feet; but if fuel was not wanting, the means of transporting it was not yet found.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There were suits of mail standing like ghosts in armour here and there, fantastic carvings brought from monkish cloisters, rusty weapons of various kinds, distorted figures in china and wood and iron and ivory: tapestry and strange furniture that might have been designed in dreams.
-- I had ever before me the old dark murky rooms the gaunt suits of mail with their ghostly silent air the faces all awry, grinning from wood and stone the dust and rust and worm that lives in wood and alone in the midst of all this lumber and decay and ugly age, the beautiful child in her gentle slumber, smiling through her light and sunny dreams.
-- said Quilp, seizing the trifle of wood before mentioned and throwing it at him with such dexterity that it was well the boy disappeared before it reached the spot on which he had stood.
-- Frequently raising her eyes to the trees whence these sounds came down, and feeling as though they made the place more quiet than perfect silence would have done, the child loitered from grave to grave, now stopping to replace with careful hands the bramble which had started from some green mound it helped to keep in shape, and now peeping through one of the low latticed windows into the church, with its worm-eaten books upon the desks, and baize of whitened-green mouldering from the pew sides and leaving the naked wood to view.
-- The tavern to which it belonged was a crazy building, sapped and undermined by the rats, and only upheld by great bars of wood which were reared against its walls, and had propped it up so long that even they were decaying and yielding with their load, and of a windy night might be heard to creak and crack as if the whole fabric were about to come toppling down.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As Nekhludoff got beyond the partition he noticed Simonson feeding a billet of pine wood into the oven.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "From the brow of the next hill I saw a thick wood spreading wide and black before me.
-- I looked into the thickness of the wood and thought of what it might hide.
-- The hillside was quiet and deserted, but from the black of the wood there came now and then a stir of living things.
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