cliff是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 悬崖； 峭壁，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：
-- Part of the cliff had been partially beaten down, no doubt, by the sea in some equinoctial gale.
-- Through this opening the whole party passed and reached the top of the cliff by a pretty steep path.
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：
-- There it was again upon our left!On that side a ridge of rocks ended in a sheer cliff which overlooked a stone-strewn slope.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, however, he kept trying to break the ranks of the enemy wherever he could see them thickest, and in the goodliest armour; but do what he might he could not break through them, for they stood as a tower four-square, or as some high cliff rising from the grey sea that braves the anger of the gale, and of the waves that thunder up against it.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They headed for a cliff by the shore a cliff that ran down into deep water, and plunged into a dark hole at the foot of it, twenty fathoms under the sea.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Levin walked after him and often thought he must fall, as he climbed with a scythe up a steep cliff where it would have been hard work to clamber without anything.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We walked about on the cliff after that, and sat on the grass, andlooked at things through a telescope- I could make out nothing 30myself when it was put to my eye, but I pretended I could- andthen we came back to the hotel to an early dinner.
-- The latter and I would have gone out to fly the great kite; but that Ihad still no other clothes than the anything but ornamentalgarments with which I had been decorated on the first day, andwhich confined me to the house, except for an hour after dark,when my aunt, for my health's sake, paraded me up and down onthe cliff outside before going to bed.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this he stated that he was passing over the cliff on the remoter side of the cove just as the sun was setting.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this place, the geological basin of the ocean forms, as far as the Lesser Antilles, a cliff to three and a half miles perpendicular in height, and, at the parallel of the Cape Verde Islands, an other wall not less considerable, that encloses thus all the sunk continent of the Atlantic.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the left, above the promontory, this irregular and jagged cliff descended by a long slope of conglomerated rocks till it mingled with the ground of the southern point.
-- Chapter 4 All at once the reporter sprang up, and telling the sailor that he would rejoin them at that same place, he climbed the cliff in the direction which the Negro Neb had taken a few hours before.
-- It was now necessary to complete the observations of the evening before by measuring the height of the cliff above the level of the sea.
-- The second distance between the stick and the bottom of the cliff was five hundred feet.
-- He then proved the following proportions: 15:500::10:x 500 x 10 = / 15 = 333.3 From which it was proved that the granite cliff measured 333 feet in height.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His new owner took him to a high cliff overlooking the sea, put a stone around his neck, tied a rope to one of his hind feet, gave him a push, and threw him into the water.
-- And his new master sat on the cliff waiting for him to drown, so as to skin him and make himself a drumhead.
-- Down into the sea, deeper and deeper, sank Pinocchio, and finally, after fifty minutes of waiting, the man on the cliff said to himself: "By this time my poor little lame Donkey must be drowned.
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