summer是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 夏天, 夏季a. 夏季的,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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Already summer was in the air, the first hint of Georgia summer when the high tide of spring gives wayreluctantly before a fiercer heat.
-- The rose organdie with long pink sash was becoming, but she had worn it last summer when Melanie visitedTwelve Oaks and she'd be sure to remember it.
-- Caro told me all about it last summer and her mama would die if she thoughtCaro even knew about it.
-- Oh, it wasn't fair!Life was going past her, down a hot shady summer road, life with gray uniforms and jingling spursand flowered organdie dresses and banjos playing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I said to Biddy we would walk a little farther, and we did so, and the summer afternoon toned down into the summer evening, and it was very beautiful.
-- At those times I would get up and look out at the door; for our kitchen door opened at once upon the night, and stood open on summer evenings to air the room.
-- Mr. Trabb then bent over number four, and in a sort of deferential confidence recommended it to me as a light article for summer wear, an article much in vogue among the nobility and gentry, an article that it would ever be an honor to him to reflect upon a distinguished fellow-townsman's (if he might claim me for a fellow-townsman) having worn.
-- Of course I had no experience of a London summer day, and my spirits may have been oppressed by the hot exhausted air, and by the dust and grit that lay thick on everything.
-- It was fine summer weather again, and, as I walked along, the times when I was a little helpless creature, and my sister did not spare me, vividly returned.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the summer Rose-red took care of the house, and every morn-ing laid a wreath of flowers by her mother's bed before she awoke, in which was a rose from each tree.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On the 5th of November, which was the beginning of summer in those parts, the weather being very hazy, the seamen spied a rock within half a cable's length of the ship; but the wind was so strong, that we were driven directly upon it, and im-mediately split.
-- I told him, 'we had great numbers; that in summer they grazed in the fields, and in winter were kept in houses with hay and oats, where Yahoo servants were employed to rub their skins smooth, comb their manes, pick their feet, serve them with food, and make their beds.'
-- These are not suffered to taste a grain of oats, except upon certain days, till eighteen years old; nor milk, but very rarely; and in summer they graze two hours in the morning, and as many in the evening, which their parents likewise observe; but the servants are not allowed above half that time, and a great part of their grass is brought home, which they eat at the most convenient hours, when they can be best spared from work.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The streets were hot and dusty on the summer day, and the sun was so bright that it even shone through the heavy vapour drooping over Coketown, and could not be looked at steadily.
-- The measured motion of their shadows on the walls, was the substitute Coketown had to show for the shadows of rustling woods; while, for the summer hum of insects, it could offer, all the year round, from the dawn of Monday to the night of Saturday, the whirr of shafts and wheels.
-- So strange to have lived to his time of life, and yet to be beginning like a boy this summer morning!With these musings in his mind, and his bundle under his arm, Stephen took his attentive face along the high road.
-- This country, gradually softening towards the neighbourhood of Mr. Bounderby's retreat, there mellowed into a rustic landscape, golden with heath, and snowy with hawthorn in the spring of the year, and tremulous with leaves and their shadows all the summer time.
-- It was among the leafy shadows of this retirement, in the long sultry summer days, that Mr. Harthouse began to prove the face which had set him wondering when he first saw it, and to try if it would change for him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Night there is not, properly speaking, in this place, any more than there is in summer in the arctic regions.
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:
-- When the girls came home for the summer holidays of 1913, when Hilda was twenty and Connie eighteen, their father could see plainly that they had had the love experi-ence.
-- They think nothing of giving sev-en or eight guineas for a winter coat colliers' daughters, mind you and two guineas for a child's summer hat.
-- In the short summer night she learnt so much.
-- It was a lovely summer af-ternoon, the shallow lagoon rippled, the full sunshine made Venice, turning its back to them across the water, look dim.
-- So they would have to wait till spring was in, till the baby was born, till the early summer came round again.
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