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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poorest sample of humanity, the street arab, will pull the bell handle at every street door in bitter weather, and scramble up to write his name on the unsullied marble of a monument.
-- The portly Sylvie presently came up to tell her mistress that a girl too pretty to be honest, "dressed like a goddess," and not a speck of mud on her laced cashmere boots, had glided in from the street like a snake, had found the kitchen, and asked for M. Goriot's room.
-- It so happened that Christophe took a look into the street before drawing the bolts of the door; and Rastignac, coming in at that moment, could go up to his room without making any noise, followed by Christophe, who made a great deal.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Overjoyed at this discovery, he hastened to the house, which was situated in a mean street near the Reuss.
-- The porter opened the gates of the court, which had that night been my asylum, and I issued into the streets, pac-ing them with quick steps, as if I sought to avoid the wretch whom I feared every turning of the street would present to my view.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here along Peachtree Street and near-by streets were the headquarters of the various army departments, eachoffice swarming with uniformed men, the commissary, the signal corps, the mail service, the railway transport, theprovost marshal.
-- The sidewalks were crowded with men in uniform, bearing the insignia of all ranks and allservice branches; the narrow street was jammed with vehicles carriages, buggies, ambulances, covered army wagonswith profane drivers swearing as the mules struggled through the ruts; gray-clad couriers dashed spattering through thestreets from one headquarters to another, bearing orders and telegraphic dispatches; convalescents limped about oncrutches, usually with a solicitous lady at either elbow; bugle and drum and barked orders sounded from the drill fieldswhere the recruits were being turned into soldiers; and with her heart in her throat, Scarlett had her first sight ofYankee uniforms, as Uncle Peter pointed with his whip to a detachment of dejected-looking bluecoats beingshepherded toward the depot by a squad of Confederates with fixed bayonets, to entrain for the prison camp.
-- The carriage plowed its way farther and halted for a moment to permit two ladies with baskets of bandages ontheir arms to pick precarious passages across the sloppy street on stepping stones.
-- At the same moment, Scarlett's eyewas caught by a figure on the sidewalk in a brightly colored dress too bright for street wear covered by a Paisleyshawl with fringes to the heels.
-- Then, as if brought into being by the waltz music, sounds floated in from the shadowy moonlit street below, thetrample of horses' hooves and the sound of carriage wheels, laughter on the warm sweet air and the soft acrimony ofnegro voices raised in argument over hitching places for the horses.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter VIIIMr. Pumblechook's premises in the High Street of the market town, were of a peppercorny and farinaceous character, as the premises of a cornchandler and seedsman should be.
-- The same opportunity served me for noticing that Mr. Pumblechook appeared to conduct his business by looking across the street at the saddler, who appeared to transact his business by keeping his eye on the coachmaker, who appeared to get on in life by putting his hands in his pockets and contemplating the baker, who in his turn folded his arms and stared at the grocer, who stood at his door and yawned at the chemist.
-- The watchmaker, always poring over a little desk with a magnifying-glass at his eye, and always inspected by a group of smock-frocks poring over him through the glass of his shop-window, seemed to be about the only person in the High Street whose trade engaged his attention.
-- As I knew it would be miserable at home, and as the nights were dark and the way was dreary, and almost any companionship on the road was better than none, I made no great resistance; consequently, we turned into Pumblechook's just as the street and the shops were lighting up.
-- The Constables and the Bow Street men from London--for, this happened in the days of the extinct red-waistcoated police--were about the house for a week or two, and did pretty much what I have heard and read of like authorities doing in other such cases.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Nothing better,' said this false bride, 'than that she should be thrown into a cask stuck round with sharp nails, and that two white horses should be put to it, and should drag it from street to street till she was dead.'
-- Then came a peasant woman down the street crying: 'Good jams, cheap!Good jams, cheap!'
-- Then he called his daughter and the children, then the appren-tices, girls and boys, and they all ran up the street to look at the bird, and saw how splendid it was with its red and green feathers, and its neck like burnished gold, and eyes like two bright stars in its head.
-- At night when the sleeping princess was again carried through the streets, some peas certainly did fall out of her pocket, but they made no track, for the crafty manikin had just before scattered peas in ev-ery street there was.
-- Next morning the king sent his people out to seek the track, but it was all in vain, for in every street poor chil-dren were sitting, picking up peas, and saying: 'It must have rained peas, last night.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My master took a lodging in the principal street of the city, not far from the royal palace, and put out bills in the usual form, containing an exact description of my per-son and parts.
-- I was at last bold enough to walk the street in his company, but kept my nose well stopped with rue, or sometimes with tobacco.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Almost as they did so, there came running round the corner of the street at a quick pace and with a frightened look, a girl whom Mr. Gradgrind recognized.
-- His home, in such another street as the first, saving that it was narrower, was over a little shop.
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