arrow是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 箭, 矢, 箭状物; 箭头符号,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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As you look at their gray stone huts against the scarred hill-sides you leave your own age behind you, and if you were to see a skin-clad, hairy man crawl out from the low door fitting a flint-tipped arrow on to the string of his bow, you would feel that his presence there was more natural than your own.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He sat him-self down away from the ships with a face as dark as night, and his silver bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them.
-- If you dare send an arrow at Menelaus you will win honour and thanks from all the Trojans, and especially from prince Alexandrus he would be the first to requite you very handsomely if he could see Menelaus mount his funeral pyre, slain by an arrow from your hand.
-- This bow was made from the horns of a wild ibex which he had killed as it was bounding from a rock; he had stalked it, and it had fallen as the arrow struck it to the heart.
-- He laid the arrow on the string and prayed to Lycian Apollo, the famous archer, vowing that when he got home to his strong city of Zelea he would offer a hecatomb of first-ling lambs in his honour.
-- He laid the notch of the arrow on the oxhide bowstring, and drew both notch and string to his breast till the arrow-head was near the bow; then when the bow was arched into a half-circle he let fly, and the bow twanged, and the string sang as the arrow flew gladly on over the heads of the throng.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It still lay on the veranda, and Nagaina came nearer and nearer to it, till at last, while Rik-ki-tikki was drawing breath, she caught it in her mouth, turned to the veranda steps, and flew like an arrow down the path, with Rikki-tikki behind her.
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:
-- 'Is there no difference, Hawkeye, between the stone-headed arrow of the warrior, and the leaden bullet with which you kill?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Excuse me, allow me to assure you that the report which has reached you, or rather, let me say, has been conveyed to you, has no foundation in truth, and I 芒聙娄 suspect who 芒聙娄 in a word 芒聙娄 this arrow 芒聙娄 in a word, your mamma 芒聙娄 She seemed to me in other things, with all her excellent qualities, of a somewhat high-flown and romantic way of thinking芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A half-dressed boatman, standing next to me,pointed with his bare arm (a tattoo'd arrow on it, pointing in thesame direction) to the left.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The wounded deer dragging its fainting limbs to some untrod-den brake, there to gaze upon the arrow which had pierced it, and to die, was but a type of me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The forge was shut up for the day, and Joe inscribed in chalk upon the door (as it was his custom to do on the very rare occasions when he was not at work) the monosyllable HOUT, accompanied by a sketch of an arrow supposed to be flying in the direction he had taken.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air, and a bird came flying that was of pure gold; and as it was snapping at one of the apples with its beak, the gardener's son jumped up and shot an arrow at it.
-- But the arrow did the bird no harm; only it dropped a golden feather from its tail, and then flew away.
-- So he shot his arrow at the fox; but he missed it, and it set up its tail above its back and ran into the wood.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advanc-ing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back.
-- I walked very circumspectly, for fear of being surprised, or suddenly shot with an arrow from behind, or 280 Gulliver's Travelson either side.
-- Is wounded with an arrow by one of the natives.
-- I made what haste I could to the shore, and, getting into my canoe, shoved off: the savages, ob-serving me retreat, ran after me: and before I could get far enough into the sea, discharged an arrow which wounded me deeply on the inside of my left knee: I shall carry the mark to my grave.
-- I apprehended the arrow might be poi-soned, and paddling out of the reach of their darts (being a calm day), I made a shift to suck the wound, and dress it as well as I could.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But no longer snuffing in the trail of the wild beasts of the woodland, Tashtego now hunted in the wake of the great whales of the sea; the unerring harpoon of the son fitly replacing the infallible arrow of the sires.
-- The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold, the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon: he esteemeth iron as straw; the arrow cannot make him flee; darts are counted as stubble; he laugheth at the shaking of a spear!"
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It's jest a small, thin, blue arrow that's what it is; and if you don't look clost, you can't see it.
-- You hain't done a thing from the start that had any sense in it, except coming out so cool and cheeky with that imaginary blue- arrow mark.
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