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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The soil is carpeted with rich herbage, and adorned with magnificent trees, among which, in great numbers, were apple-trees, planted at the time of the conquest, and golden with fruit.
-- Between the 22d and 42d degrees the Argentine soil slopes eastward, and all the travelers had to do was to follow the slope right down to the sea.
-- The soil is composed of sand and red or yellow clay, and this is covered by a layer of earth, in which the vegetation takes root.
-- No doubt the tree would be able to resist the current, but the waters might rise higher and higher, till the topmost branches were covered, for the depression of the soil made this part of the plain a deep reservoir.
-- The damp argillaceous soil gave way under their feet.
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：
-- We left her standing upon the thin peninsula of firm, peaty soil which tapered out into the widespread bog.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Per-haps the soil of his susceptible nature was really predisposed to receive a pleasant impression.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And they that held the strong city of Athens, the peo-ple of great Erechtheus, who was born of the soil itself, but Jove's daughter, Minerva, fostered him, and established him at Athens in her own rich sanctuary.
-- He had left a wife behind him in Phylace to tear her cheeks in sor-row, and his house was only half finished, for he was slain by a Dardanian warrior while leaping foremost of the Achae-ans upon the soil of Troy.
-- There he stood for a while with his head and shoulders bur-ied deep in the dust for he had fallen on sandy soil till his horses kicked him and laid him flat on the ground, as An-tilochus lashed them and drove them off to the host of the Achaeans.
-- The same soil shall be reddened here at Troy by the blood of us both, for I too shall never be welcomed home by the old knight Peleus, nor by my mother Thetis, but even in this place shall the earth cover me.
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：
-- But, here and there, a dark green tuft rose in the midst of the desolation; the earliest fruits of a soil that had been fattened with human blood.
-- Though love for the soil which had belonged to his ancestors kept the Sagamore of the Mohicans with a small band of follow-ers who were serving at Edward, under the banners of the English king, by far the largest portion of his nation were known to be in the field as allies of Montcalm.
-- 'There is much fruitful soil uncultivated here,' he said; 'and, I may add, without the sinful leaven of self-commen-dation, that, since my short sojourn in these heathenish abodes, much good seed has been scattered by the wayside.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The castaways accordingly returned, following the opposite side of the promontory, over a soil equally sandy and rugged.
-- The soil in front of the cave had been torn away by the violence of the waves.
-- After leaving the region of bushes, the party, assisted by resting on each other's shoulders, climbed for about a hundred feet up a steep acclivity and reached a level place, with very few trees, where the soil appeared volcanic.
-- There, the long series of downs ended, and the soil had a volcanic appearance.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon the soft and swampy soil again appeared under the feet of our horses, while at every hundred yards we came upon one or more small lakes.
-- The accidents and difficulties of the soil no longer checked them.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she did feel the peculiar, withering coldness under it all; like the soil of Lab-rador, which his gay little flowers on its surface, and a foot down is frozen.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hail, holy nakedness of our dancing girls! the Heeva-Heeva!Ah!low veiled, high palmed Tahiti!I still rest me on thy mat, but the soft soil has slid!I saw thee woven in the wood, my mat!green the first day I brought ye thence; now worn and wilted quite.
-- But mark: aloft there, at the three mast heads, stand three men intent on spying out more whales, which, if caught, infallibly will again soil the old oaken furniture, and drop at least one small grease-spot somewhere.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a flowering out of feelings which had been withering in dry and almost barren soil for many years.
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