street是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 街, 街道; 行车道,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was the central room of the three occupied by Doc Vickerson, facing on Main Street above the New York Clothing Bazaar.
-- Madeline's mother was a Main Street dowager duchess.
-- The hamlet of Wheatsylvania, North Dakota; one street of shanties with the red grain-elevators at the end.
-- Probably to Leora one building differed from another-- she appeared to distinguish between the general store of Norblom and that of Frazier & Lamb--but to Martin the two-story wooden shacks creeping aimlessly along the wide Main Street were featureless and inappreciable.
-- It was at this time that he encountered Martin and Leora on the street in Zenith.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The heat in the street was terrible: and the airlessness, the bustle and the plaster, scaffolding, bricks, and dust all about him, and that special Petersburg stench, so familiar to all who are unable to get out of town in summer all worked painfully upon the young man's already overwrought nerves.
-- He was so badly dressed that even a man accustomed to shabbiness would have been ashamed to be seen in the street in such rags.
-- When he was in the street he cried out, 'Oh, God, how loathsome it all is!and can I, can I possibly芒聙娄.
-- and they've put her out into the street like that.
-- It was impossible for him to carry the axe through the street in his hands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When we got into the street (which was strange enough to me), andsmelt the fish, and pitch, and oakum, and tar, and saw the sailorswalking about, and the carts jingling up and down over the stones, 35I felt that I had done so busy a place an injustice; and said as muchto Peggotty, who heard my expressions of delight with greatcomplacency, and told me it was well known (I suppose to thosewho had the good fortune to be born Bloaters) that Yarmouth was,upon the whole, the finest place in the universe.
-- I told him mine, which was down that street there, and which Iwanted him to take to the Dover coach-office for sixpence.
-- I have associated it, ever since, with the sunny street ofCanterbury, dozing as it were in the hot light; and with the sight ofits old houses and gateways, and the stately, grey cathedral, withthe rooks sailing round the towers.
-- After shaking hands with me- his handfelt like a fish, in the dark- he opened the door into the street a verylittle, and crept out, and shut it, leaving me to grope my way backinto the house; which cost me some trouble and a fall over hisstool.
-- I had begun to be a little uncomfortable, and to wish myself wellout of the visit, when a figure coming down the street passed thedoor- it stood open to air the room, which was warm, the weatherbeing close for the time of year- came back again, looked in, andwalked in, exclaiming loudly, 'Copperfield!Is it possible?'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Their road to this detached cottage was down Vicarage Lane, a lane leading at right angles from the broad, though irregular, main street of the place; and, as may be inferred, containing the blessed abode of Mr. Elton.
-- He begged to be shewn the house which his father had lived in so long, and which had been the home of his father's father; and on recollecting that an old woman who had nursed him was still living, walked in quest of her cot-tage from one end of the street to the other; and though in some points of pursuit or observation there was no positive merit, they shewed, altogether, a good-will towards High-bury in general, which must be very like a merit to those he was with.
-- 'He had seen a group of old acquaintance in the street as he passed he had not stopped, he would not stop for more than a word but he had the vanity to think they would be disappointed if he did not call, and much as he wished to stay longer at Hartfield, he must hurry off.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At one end of the street stood from two to three hundred blithe and hearty labourers waiting upon Chance all men of the stamp to whom labour suggests nothing worse than a wrestle with gravitation, and pleasure nothing better than a renunciation of the same.
-- Turning down an obscure street and entering an obscurer lane, he went up to a smith's shop.
-- "Yes," continued William, "they pranced down the street playing 'The Girl I Left Behind Me,' so 'tis said, in glorious notes of triumph.
-- Reaching the town, Troy descended into a side street and entered a pair of gates surmounted by a board bearing the words, "Lester, stone and marble mason."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The little garden is no wider than the front of the house; it is shut in between the wall of the street and the partition wall of the neighboring house.
-- Access is given by a French window to the first room on the ground floor, a sitting-room which looks out upon the street through the two barred windows already mentioned.
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