storm是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 暴风雨, 暴风雪; 激动, 爆发v. 猛攻, 直捣,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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But as the weather grew so bad and there was a storm of rain and wind, he could go no farther, and turned back to the mill and begged for shelter.
-- 'Ah,' said the wife, 'the poor knave came in the storm and rain, and begged for shelter, so I gave him a bit of bread and cheese, and showed him where the straw was.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It would not be proper, for some reasons, to trouble the reader with the particulars of our adventures in those seas; let it suffice to inform him, that in our passage from thence to the East Indies, we were driven by a violent storm to the north-west of Van Diemen's Land.
-- I often let my legs drop, and could feel no bottom; but when I was almost gone, and able to struggle no longer, I found myself within my depth; and by this time the storm was much abated.
-- 96 Gulliver's TravelsChapter I A great storm described; the long boat sent to fetch water; the author goes with it to discover the country.
-- When the storm was over, we set fore-sail and main-sail, and brought the ship to.
-- We had not sailed above three days, when a great storm arising, we were driven five days to the north-north-east, and then to the east: after which we had fair weather, but still with a pretty strong gale from the west.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Forty-eight hours later, after a storm which drove us far to sea under bare poles, we came once more in sight of land, and were boarded by a pilot, who, after three hours of dangerous navigation, brought the schooner safely to an anchor in the bay of Faxa before Reykjavik.
-- About ten o'clock in the morning, the symptoms of the storm became more thorough and decisive; the wind appeared to soften down as if to take breath for a renewed attack; the vast funereal pall above us looked like a huge bag--like the cave of AEolus, in which the storm was collecting its forces for the attack.
-- Let the wind strike us and do its worst, let the storm sweep us away where it will--only let me see the glimmer of some coast--of some rocky cliffs, even if they dash our raft into a thousand pieces.
-- The storm shows no signs of cessation.
-- There is a constant emission of light from the storm clouds; the electric matter is incessantly released; evidently the gaseous principles of the air are out of order; innumerable columns of water rush up like waterspouts, and fall back upon the surface of the ocean in foam.
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:
-- The storm of weeping swelled and shook her, and shook him.
-- Yet even then, he had one ear set backwards, listening to the storm over the wood.
-- 'I don't like her being in the wood in a storm like this!I don't like her being in the wood at all!She's been gone now more than two hours.
-- 'Where have you been, woman, You've been gone hours, hours, and in a storm like this!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Because such a declaration as Clennam's, made at such a time, would certainly draw down upon him a storm of animosity, rendering it impossible to calculate on forbearance in the creditors, or on unanimity among them; and exposing him a solitary target to a straggling cross-fire, which might bring him down from half-a-dozen quarters at once.
-- The disclosure was made, and the storm raged fearfully.
-- When the storm of dust had cleared away and the summer night was calm again, numbers of people choked up every avenue of access, and parties of diggers were formed to relieve one another in digging among the ruins.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The storm cleared up below, for Mrs. March came home, and, having heard the story, soon brought Amy to a sense of the wrong she had done her sister.
-- Hannah had 'dished up' and astonishing breakfast for the traveler, finding it impossible to vent her excitement in any other way, and Meg and Jo fed their mother like du-tiful young storks, while they listened to her whispered account of Father's state, Mr. Brooke's promise to stay and nurse him, the delays which the storm occasioned on the homeward journey, and the unspeakable comfort Laurie's hopeful face had given her when she arrived, worn out with fatigue, anxiety, and cold.
-- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWOLike sunshine after a storm were the peaceful weeks which followed.
-- You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
-- Though it came in such a very simple guise, that was the crowning moment of both their lives, when, turning from the night and storm and loneli-ness to the household light and warmth and peace waiting to receive them, with a glad 'Welcome home!'
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