highway是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 公路， 大路，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Daring bur-glaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellowtradesman whom he stopped in his character of 'the Captain,' gallantly shot him through the head and rode away; the mall was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, 'in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:' after which the mall was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the Lord May-or of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond cross-es from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the mus-keteers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way.
-- 321XXIII Fire Rises here was a change on the village where the fountain Tfell, and where the mender of roads went forth daily to hammer out of the stones on the highway such morsels of bread as might serve for patches to hold his poor igno-rant soul and his poor reduced body together.
-- That he had watched the times for a time of action, and that they had shifted and struggled until the time had gone by, and the nobility were trooping from France by ev-ery highway and byway, and their property was in course of confiscation and destruction, and their very names were blotting out, was as well known to himself as it could be to any new authority in France that might impeach him for it.
-- This universal watchfulness not only stopped him on the highway twenty times in a stage, but retarded his progress twenty times in a day, by riding after him and taking him back, riding before him and stopping him by anticipation, riding with him and keeping him in charge.
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：
-- 'If you journey to the lake, you have mistaken your route,' said Heyward, haughtily; 'the highway thither is at least half a mile behind you.'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among the warriors were Martin, Alec Ingleblad the barber, and a highway engineer, all of them stripped to flannel undershirts, not moving for hour on hour, ruffling their cards, eyes squinting and vacant.
-- As she came to the highway she stumbled, and lay under the hedge, unmoving, like a hurt animal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the exception of two or three inconsiderable clusters of cottages which they passed, without stopping, and one lonely road-side public-house where they had some bread and cheese, this highway had led them to nothing late in the afternoon and still lengthened out, far in the distance, the same dull, tedious, winding course, that they had been pursuing all day.
-- Is it no harm to be blinded and choked up, and have the king's highway stopped with a set of screamers and roarers whose throats must be made of of ''Brass,' suggested Mr Swiveller.
-- The waking from a sound nap as the mail came dashing past like a highway comet, with gleaming lamps and rattling hoofs, and visions of a guard behind, standing up to keep his feet warm, and of a gentleman in a fur cap opening his eyes and looking wild and stupefied the stopping at the turnpike where the man was gone to bed, and knocking at the door until he answered with a smothered shout from under the bed-clothes in the little room above, where the faint light was burning, and presently came down, night-capped and shivering, to throw the gate wide open, and wish all waggons off the road except by day.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through a spur of this hill ran the highway between Emminster and Chalk-Newton.
-- All the old stabling was now pulled down, and little remained besides the habitable inn itself, which, standing a little way back from the road, signified its existence to people far up and down the highway by a sign hanging from the horizontal bough of an elm on the opposite side of the way.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the old city of Savannah, a thirdrailroad was built first to Macon, in the heart of Georgia, and then north through Gerald's own county to Atlanta, tolink up with the other two roads and give Savannah's harbor a highway to the West.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is careful therefore to point the exact one which is the highway into the Interior of the Earth.
-- Here and there could be seen an isolated farm, some solitary bur, or Icelandic house, built of wood, earth, fragments of lava--looking like beggars on the highway of life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Murder, manslaughter, arson, forgery, swindling, house-breaking, highway robbery, larceny, conspiracy, fraud?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How I snuffed that Tartar air! how I spurned that turnpike earth! that common highway all over dented with the marks of slavish heels and hoofs; and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After her experience with Chicago, she expected long lines of cars--a great highway of tracks--and noted the difference.
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