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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The light, which lit the soil thirty feet below the surface of the ocean, astonished me by its power.
-- Soon the nature of the soil changed; to the sandy plain succeeded an extent of slimy mud which the Americans call "ooze," composed of equal parts of silicious and calcareous shells.
-- The soil of the forest seemed covered with sharp blocks, difficult to avoid.
-- Ned Land tried the soil with his feet, as if to take possession of it.
-- The soil changed by degrees.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is the cause of the wealth of the mines in Great Britain, where the coal aids the manufacture of the metal extracted from the same soil at the same time as itself.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am a convict, while you are a lord, a prince, and needn't stay here to soil your hands.
-- But wait; we must not soil the things here," and he brought an ash-holder.
-- You cannot give black soil to some and clay and sand to others."
-- "May be it is necessary to lay the stones on the incline, but it is sad to see the soil deprived of vegetation when it could be made to grow grain, grass, shrubs and trees like those seen on those heights.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even the soil smelt sweet and clean.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Most of the soil had been washed away or buried in drift after the removal of the trees; only where the streamlet ran down from the kettle a thick bed of moss and some ferns and little creeping bushes were still green among the sand.
-- The printed side had been blackened with wood ash, which already began to come off and soil my fingers; on the blank side had been written with the same material the one word "Depposed."
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