valley是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (山) 谷； 流域，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：
-- Every valley and precipice and abyss must be searched through and through.
-- The valley was thickly wooded, and the Major had no difficulty in finding a suitable place of encampment.
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：
-- These, though known for their valour and their breed, were whimpering in a cluster at the head of a deep dip or goyal, as we call it, upon the moor, some slink-ing away and some, with starting hackles and staring eyes, gazing down the narrow valley before them.
-- Both road and stream wound up through a valley dense with scrub oak and fir.
-- We found a short valley between rug-ged tors which led to an open, grassy space flecked over with the white cotton grass.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I ran furiously up the slope, over it, then turning eastward along a rocky valley fringed on either side with jungle I ran for perhaps a mile altogether, my chest straining, my heart beating in my ears; and then hearing nothing of Montgomery or his man, and feeling upon the verge of exhaustion, I doubled sharply back towards the beach as I judged, and lay down in the shelter of a canebrake.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Father Wolf listened, and below in the valley that ran down to a little river he heard the dry, angry, snarly, sing-song whine of a tiger who has caught nothing and does not care if all the jungle knows it.
-- The valley opened out into a great plain dotted over with rocks and cut up by ra-vines.
-- The grass began to get squashy, and Kala Nag's feet sucked and squelched as he put them down, and the night mist at the bottom of the valley chilled Little Toomai.
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：
-- When they issued from the stunted woods which clung to the bar-ren sides of the mountain, upon a flat and mossy rock that formed its summit, they met the morning, as it came blush-ing above the green pines of a hill that lay on the opposite side of the valley of the Horican.
-- The first tap of the French drums was echoed from the bosom of the fort, and presently the valley was filled with the strains of martial music, rising long, thrilling and lively above the rattling accompaniment.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world.
-- The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country, and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was told that that was what they called the Englishman, a painter, who lived with Ata up in the valley seven kilometres from where they were.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The opposite shore appeared to be more uneven, and the valley of which the river occupied the bottom was more clearly visible.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Below was the valley of the Thames, in which the river lay like a band of burnished steel.
-- "I wandered during the afternoon along the valley of the Thames, but found nothing that commended itself to my mind as inaccessible.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But then the Nautilus swerved again, and sought the lowest depth of a submarine valley which is between this Cape and Sierra Leone on the African coast.
-- This valley bifurcates to the parallel of the Antilles, and terminates at the mouth by the enormous depression of 9,000 yards.
-- The bottom of this immense valley is dotted with some mountains, that give to these submarine places a picturesque aspect.
-- The bottom of the ocean then formed a valley about 100 miles broad, in which Mont Blanc might have been placed without its summit appearing above the waves.
-- This valley is closed at the east by a perpendicular wall more than 2,000 yards high.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the left was a large landscape, a valley with collieries, and opposite hills with cornfields and woods, all blackened with distance, as if seen through a veil of crape.
-- Shortlands looked across a sloping meadow that might be a park, because of the large, solitary trees that stood here and there, across the water of the narrow lake, at the wooded hill that successfully hid the colliery valley beyond, but did not quite hide the rising smoke.
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