shadow是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 阴影, 影子, 荫; 暗处, 阴暗,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:
-- "There isn't a doubt of it, not a shadow of doubt," repeated Lord Glenarvan.
-- But just as exhaustion was about to make short work of any further ascent, and Glenarvan's heart began to sink as he thought of the snow lying far as the eye could reach, and of the intense cold, and saw the shadow of night fast overspreading the desolate peaks, and knew they had not a roof to shelter them, suddenly the Major stopped and said, in a calm voice, "A hut!"
-- But to the increasing surprise of Thalcave, they did not come across even the shadow of an Indian.
-- This OMBU measured in height a hundred feet, and covered with its shadow a circumference of one hundred and twenty yards.
-- A dark shadow lay on the water, and it could hardly be distinguished from the thick vapors above it.
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:
-- 'The shadow has departed and will not return.
-- A tall man had stepped from the shadow of the porch to open the door of the wagonette.
-- But the dining-room which opened out of the hall was a place of shadow and gloom.
-- It was all dim and vague, but always there is the dark shadow of crime behind it.
-- A long black shadow was trail-ing down the corridor.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Don't let me see as much as a SHADOW of you about the place!Do you hear?'
-- Before the others had risen from the table, Gania had sud-denly left off drinking, and pushed away his glass, a dark shadow seemed to come over his face.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- STRODE through the undergrowth that clothed the I ridge behind the house, scarcely heeding whither I went; passed on through the shadow of a thick cluster of straight-stemmed trees beyond it, and so presently found myself some way on the other side of the ridge, and descending to-wards a streamlet that ran through a narrow valley.
-- I was startled by a great patch of vivid scarlet on the ground, and going up to it found it to be a peculiar fungus, branched and corrugated like a foliaceous lichen, but deli-quescing into slime at the touch; and then in the shadow of some luxuriant ferns I came upon an unpleasant thing, the dead body of a rabbit covered with shining flies, but still warm and with the head torn off.
-- Every shadow became something more than a shadow, became an am-bush; every rustle became a threat.
-- There was an emerald flash in his eyes as he glanced at me from the shadow of the trees, a half-luminous colour that vanished as he turned his head again.
-- One black shadow seemed to leap into another.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: 'Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves.
-- A black shadow dropped down into the circle.
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:
-- Chapter 5 ...'In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew; And saw the lion's shadow ere himself.'
-- At length they reached a point in the river where the roving eye of Heyward be-came riveted on a cluster of black objects, collected at a spot where the high bank threw a deeper shadow than usual on the dark waters.
-- cried Heyward, advancing from the shadow of the trees to the shore of the pond, within a few yards of the sentinel.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She hummed and hummed as the moments went by, sitting in the shadow by the window, and was therein as happy, though she did not perceive it, as she ever would be.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Not even the shadow of one."
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