deck是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 甲板, 公共汽车一层的车厢, 纸牌 vt. 装饰, 打扮,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:
-- He saw him on the deck of the BRITANNIA, and then struggling with the billows, then clinging to the rocks, and lying at length exhausted on the beach.
-- Lady Helena and Mary Grant were able to come on deck at daybreak, where they found Lord Glenarvan, Major McNabbs and the captain.
-- All went on deck now, and the seven explorers left the vessel.
-- "And till then," put in Glenarvan, "with your leave, I prefer the gravel of a park, or the floor of a house, or the deck of a ship, to this aerial dwelling."
-- John Mangles remained on deck the whole night, for though as yet the sky was still unclouded, he had such faith in his weather-glass, that he took every precaution that prudence could suggest.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ajax could not bring himself to retreat along with the rest, but strode from deck to deck with a great sea-pike in his hands twelve cubits long and jointed with rings.
-- As a man skilled in feats of horsemanship couples four horses together and comes tearing full speed along the public way from the country into some large town many both men and women marvel as they see him for he keeps all the time changing his horse, springing from one to another without ever missing his feet while the horses are at a gallop even so did Ajax go striding from one ship's deck to another, and his voice went up into the heavens.
-- Therefore he left the raised deck at the stern, and stepped back on to the seven-foot bench of the oarsmen.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Montgomery's movement to follow me released my at-tention, and I turned and looked about me at the flush deck of the little schooner.
-- Certainly I never be-held a deck so dirty.
-- The only human being on deck was a gaunt and silent sailor at the wheel.
-- The captain was not on deck when it was sighted.
-- We remained talking on the quarter deck until the sky was thick with stars.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then it came on straight toward the Viceroy and the Amir, and as it got nearer the ground began to shake, like the deck of a steamer when the engines are going fast.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And so saying, he led the way below deck into the cabin.
-- And all this seemed natural enough; especially as in the merchant service many captains never show themselves on deck for a considerable time after heaving up the anchor, but remain over the cabin table, having a farewell merry-making with their shore friends, before they quit the ship for good with the pilot.
-- For loath to depart, yet; very loath to leave, for good, a ship bound on so long and perilous a voyage beyond both stormy Capes; a ship in which some thousands of his hard earned dollars were invested; a ship, in which an old shipmate sailed as captain; a man almost as old as he, once more starting to encounter all the terrors of the pitiless jaw; loath to say good-bye to a thing so every way brimful of every interest to him, poor old Bildad lingered long; paced the deck with anxious strides; ran down into the cabin to speak another farewell word there; again came on deck, and looked to windward; looked towards the wide and endless waters, only bounded by the far-off unseen Eastern Continents; looked towards the land; looked aloft; looked right and left; looked everywhere and nowhere; and at last, mechanically coiling a rope upon its pin, convulsively grasped stout Peleg by the hand, and holding up a lantern, for a moment stood gazing heroically in his face, as much as to say, "Nevertheless, friend Peleg, I can stand it; yes, I can."
-- Every time I ascended to the deck from my watches below, I instantly gazed aft to mark if any strange face were visible; for my first vague disquietude touching the unknown captain, now in the seclusion of the sea, became almost a perturbation.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We plied them with small shot, half-pikes, powder-chests, and such like, and cleared our deck of them twice.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was leaning over, with part of her upper deck above water, and you could see every little chimbly-guy clean and clear, and a chair by the big bell, with an old slouch hat hanging on the back of it, when the flashes come.
-- The deck was high out here.
-- Jim said we could take deck passage on a steamboat now, and the money would last us as far as we wanted to go in the free States.
-- They all asked me questions, and I told them how pap and me and all the family was living on a little farm down at the bottom of Arkansaw, and my sister Mary Ann run off and got married and never was heard of no more, and Bill went to hunt them and he warn't heard of no more, and Tom and Mort died, and then there warn't nobody but just me and pap left, and he was just trimmed down to nothing, on ac-count of his troubles; so when he died I took what there was left, because the farm didn't belong to us, and started up the river, deck passage, and fell overboard; and that was how I come to be here.
-- That warn't enough to take us fourteen hundred mile, deck passage nor no other way.
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