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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But vain excitement!The Abraham Lincoln checked its speed and made for the animal signalled, a simple whale, or common cachalot, which soon disappeared amidst a storm of abuse.
-- Perhaps some storm agitated the surface of the waves.
-- The mixture of the storm glass was decomposed under the influence of the electricity that pervaded the atmosphere.
-- The wind veered suddenly to all points of the horizon; and the cyclone, rising in the east, returned after passing by the north, west, and south, in the inverse course pursued by the circular storm of the southern hemisphere.
-- The storm was then at its height.
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:
-- A terrible storm came over her, as if she were drowning.
-- A little shock, a storm of revulsion against him, shook Hermione unconsciously.
-- But now his father was passing away, Gerald found himself left exposed and unready before the storm of living, like the mutinous first mate of a ship that has lost his captain, and who sees only a terrible chaos in front of him.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Happily, an inhabitant of the kitchen made more despatch: a lusty dame, with tucked up gown, bare arms, and fire flushed cheeks, rushed into the midst of us flourishing a frying pan: and used that weapon, and her tongue, to such purpose, that the storm subsided magically, and she only remained, heaving like a sea after a high wind, when her master entered on the scene.
-- he said, shaking the white flakes from his clothes; 'I wonder you should select the thick of a snow storm to ramble about in.
-- But he seemed to recollect himself presently, and smothered the storm in a brutal curse, muttered on my behalf: which, however, I took care not to notice.
-- About midnight, while we still sat up, the storm came rattling over the Heights in full fury.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I haven't seen such a storm as this,' said a sharp cracked voice of most disagreeable quality, when a tremendous peal of thunder had died away, 'since the night when old Luke Withers won thirteen times running on the red.
-- The storm had raged for full three hours; the lightning had grown fainter and less frequent; the thunder, from seeming to roll and break above their heads, had gradually died away into a deep hoarse distance; and still the game went on, and still the anxious child was quite forgotten.
-- Now, Nell had still the piece of gold sewn in her dress; and when she came to consider the lateness of the hour, and the somnolent habits of Mrs Jarley, and to imagine the state of consternation in which they would certainly throw that good lady by knocking her up in the middle of the night and when she reflected, on the other hand, that if they remained where they were, and rose early in the morning, they might get back before she awoke, and could plead the violence of the storm by which they had been overtaken, as a good apology for their absence she decided, after a great deal of hesitation, to remain.
-- When they presented themselves in the midst of the stupendous collection, they found, as Nell had anticipated, that Mrs Jarley was not yet out of bed, and that, although she had suffered some uneasiness on their account overnight, and had indeed sat up for them until past eleven o'clock, she had retired in the persuasion, that, being overtaken by storm at some distance from home, they had sought the nearest shelter, and would not return before morning.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Everything was as usual, but a storm raged in Nekhludoff's soul.
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