soil是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 泥土; v. 弄脏，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：
-- Habitations, fences, domesticated animals, men, women, children, and the soil that bore them all worn out.
-- And yet there is not in France, with its rich variety of soil and climate, a blade, a leaf, a root, a sprig, a peppercorn, which will grow to maturity un-der conditions more certain than those that have produced this horror.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In addition to his farming, which called for special attention in spring, and in addition to reading, Levin had begun that winter a work on agriculture, the plan of which turned on taking into account the character of the laborer on the land as one of the unalterable data of the question, like the climate and the soil, and consequently deducing all the principles of scientific culture, not simply from the data of soil and climate, but from the data of soil, climate, and a certain unalterable character of the laborer.
-- Chapter 28 Levin was insufferably bored that evening with the ladies; he was stirred as he had never been before by the idea that the dissatisfaction he was feeling with his system of managing his land was not an exceptional case, but the general condition of things in Russia; that the organization of some relation of the laborers to the soil in which they would work, as with the peasant he had met half-way to the Sviazhskys', was not a dream, but a problem which must be solved.
-- Now, involuntarily it seemed, he cut more and more deeply into the soil like a plough, so that he could not be drawn out without turning aside the furrow.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were going to Dover; good!To Calais; good again!After all, Passepartout, who had been away from France five years, would not be sorry to set foot on his native soil again.
-- "And this," added Elder William Hitch, "this is why the jealousy of Congress has been aroused against us!Why have the soldiers of the Union invaded the soil of Utah?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But such outsiders as Wickett and such silent riders as Martin and Leora and such totally absent members as Max Gottlieb were few, and the dinner waxed magnificently to a love-feast when Dr. Tubbs and Sir Isaac Mallard paid compliments to each other, to Capitola, to the sacred soil of France, to brave little Belgium, to American hospitality, to British love of privacy, and to the extremely interesting things a young man with a sense of co-operation might do in modern science.
-- But that night, in panic, he fled up to Penrith Lodge and buried his cheek in the damp soil above the Leora with whom he had never had to fence and explain, to whom he had never needed to say, "Mayn't I come to see you?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My shirt andtrousers, stained with heat, dew, grass, and the Kentish soil onwhich I had slept- and torn besides- might have frightened thebirds from my aunt's garden, as I stood at the gate.
-- Although a mind like my friendCopperfield's'; to Uriah and Mrs. Heep; 'does not require thatcultivation which, without his knowledge of men and things, itwould require, still it is a rich soil teeming with latent vegetation-in short,' said Mr. Micawber, smiling, in another burst ofconfidence, 'it is an intellect capable of getting up the classics toany extent.'
-- Mr. Spenlow being a littledrowsy after the champagne- honour to the soil that grew the 449grape, to the grape-that made the wine, to the sun that ripened it,and to the merchant who adulterated it!- and being fast asleep in acorner of the carriage, I rode by the side and talked to Dora.
-- In another,the ground was cumbered with rusty iron monsters of steam-boilers, wheels, cranks, pipes, furnaces, paddles, anchors, diving-bells, windmill-sails, and I know not what strange objects, 628accumulated by some speculator, and grovelling in the dust,underneath which- having sunk into the soil of their own weight inwet weather- they had the appearance of vainly trying to hidethemselves.
-- From babies who had but a week or two of lifebehind them, to crooked old men and women who seemed to havebut a week or two of life before them; and from ploughmen bodilycarrying out soil of England on their boots, to smiths taking awaysamples of its soot and smoke upon their skins; every age andoccupation appeared to be crammed into the narrow compass ofthe 'tween decks.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For these the indispensable conditions of existence are attachment to the soil of one particular spot by generation after generation.
-- The force of the stream had, until very lately, been received upon some loose stones spread thereabout, which had acted as a shield to the soil under the onset.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The soil was barren, scarcely affording pasture for a few miserable cows, and oatmeal for its inhabitants, which consisted of five persons, whose gaunt and scraggy limbs gave tokens of their miserable fare.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She hesitated, unwilling to soil her slippers and hems, and looked about in the shoutingtangle of wagons, buggies and carriages for Miss Pittypat.
-- The shrubs and grass of the lawn were cut to pieces wherehooves and wheels and feet had torn frantically back and forth until the soil was churned up.
-- Her roots went deep into the blood-colored soil and sucked up life, as did thecotton.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could not forbear admiring at these odd appearances, both in town and country; and I made bold to desire my conductor, that he would be pleased to explain to me, what could be meant by so many busy heads, hands, and faces, both in the streets and the fields, because I did not discover any good effects they produced; but, on the contrary, I never knew a soil so unhappily cul-tivated, houses so ill contrived and so ruinous, or a people whose countenances and habit expressed so much misery and want.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I followed, and in a few minutes we stood upon the soil of mysterious Iceland!
-- The soil began to be marshy and boggy, and less favorable to progress.
-- This disposition of the soil is called hraun: the crumbled lava on the surface was in some instances like ship cables stretched out horizontally, in others coiled up in heaps; an immense field of lava came from the neighboring mountains, all extinct volcanoes, but whose remains showed what once they had been.
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