oar是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 桨; 橹,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:
-- John Mangles had installed himself at the starboard, and entrusted to Wilson a sort of oar to steady the raft against the current, and lessen the leeway.
-- They were not more than fifty fathoms from it, when Wilson's oar snapped short off, and the raft, no longer supported, was dragged away.
-- A large broad-bladed oar was fixed behind to act as a rudder in case the wind was sufficient to require it.
-- "Yes, captain," answered the sailor, throwing his whole weight on the great oar that steered the raft.
-- cried John, letting go his oar and rising.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What the Admiralty was to me that day; what nonsense I made ofour case in my mind, as I listened to it; how I saw 'DORA'engraved upon the blade of the silver oar which they lay upon thetable, as the emblem of that high jurisdiction, and how I felt whenMr. Spenlow went home without me (I had had an insane hopethat he might take me back again), as if I were a mariner myself,and the ship to which I belonged had sailed away and left me on adesert island; I shall make no fruitless effort to describe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The boat had neither oar nor sail, but was towed by a couple of horses, who, with the rope to which they were harnessed slack and dripping in the water, were resting on the path.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I hired men to row and took an oar myself, for I had always experienced relief from mental torment in bodily exercise.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No one took notice of me, only the bow oar saying, "Is that you, Jim?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Down upon the river that was black and thick with dye, some Coketown boys who were at large a rare sight there rowed a crazy boat, which made a spumous track upon the water as it jogged along, while every dip of an oar stirred up vile smells.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The wind being aft, and the sail square, all he had to do was to keep his oar in the centre.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As for Fedallah, who was seen pulling the harpooneer oar, he had thrown aside his black jacket, and displayed his naked chest with the whole part of his body above the gunwale, clearly cut against the alternating depressions of the watery horizon; while at the other end of the boat Ahab, with one arm, like a fencer's, thrown half backward into the air, as if to counterbalance any tendency to trip; Ahab was seen steadily managing his steering oar as in a thousand boat lowerings ere the White Whale had torn him.
-- "I can't see three seas off; tip us up an oar there, and let me on to that."
-- The ship had given us up, but was still cruising, if haply it might light upon some token of our perishing, an oar or a lance pole.
-- Nor is this any very easy matter; for in his rear is the immense projecting steering oar hitting him now and then in the small of his back, the after-oar reciprocating by rapping his knees in front.
-- The sudden exclamations of the crew must have alarmed the whale; and ere the boats were down, majestically turning, he swam away to the leeward, but with such a steady tranquillity, and making so few ripples as he swam, that thinking after all he might not as yet be alarmed, Ahab gave orders that not an oar should be used, and no man must speak but in whispers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A few leaky boats drawn up on the mud, and made fast to the dwarf wall which skirted it: and here and there an oar or coil of rope: appeared, at first, to indicate that the inhabitants of these miserable cottages pursued some avocation on the river; but a glance at the shattered and useless condition of the articles thus displayed, would have led a passer-by, without much difficulty, to the conjecture that they were disposed there, rather for the preservation of appearances, than with any view to their being actually employed.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- While we were in this condition - the men yet labouring at the oar to bring the boat near the shore - we could see (when, our boat mounting the waves, we were able to see the shore) a great many people running along the strand to assist us when we should come near; but we made but slow way towards the shore; nor were we able to reach the shore till, being past the lighthouse at Winterton, the shore falls off to the westward towards Cromer, and so the land broke off a little the violence of the wind.
-- As to mak-ing sail, we had none, nor if we had could we have done anything with it; so we worked at the oar towards the land, though with heavy hearts, like men going to execution; for we all knew that when the boat came near the shore she would be dashed in a thousand pieces by the breach of the sea.
-- I did my utmost, by setting my back against the chests, to keep them in their places, but could not thrust off the raft with all my strength; neither durst I stir from the posture I was in; but holding up the chests with all my might, I stood in that manner near half-an-hour, in which time the rising of the water brought me a little more upon a level; and a little after, the water still-rising, my raft floated again, and Ithrust her off with the oar I had into the channel, and then driving up higher, I at length found myself in the mouth of a little river, with land on both sides, and a strong current of tide running up.
-- All that I could do was to wait till the tide was at the highest, keeping the raft with my oar like an anchor, to hold the side of it fast to the shore, near a flat piece of ground, which I expected the water would flow over; and so it did.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A few strokes of the oar brought the canoe into a little creek, and its passengers leaped on shore.
-- A few strokes of the oar brought the settlers to the mouth of the Mercy.
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 other oar was smashed off, and the raft was littered up with leaves and branches and dirt.
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