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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I therefore spent the day at my club and did not return to Baker Street until evening.
-- Then, still keeping a hundred yards behind, we followed into Oxford Street and so down Regent Street.
-- An instant afterwards he gave a little cry of satisfaction, and, following the direction of his eager eyes, I saw that a han-som cab with a man inside which had halted on the other side of the street was now proceeding slowly onward again.
-- We had been sauntering slowly down Regent Street during this conversation, and Dr. Mortimer, with his com-panion, had long vanished in front of us.
-- Let me have a report by wire at Baker Street before evening.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Three streets of life yet!When we've passed this street there'll be that other one; and then that one where the baker's shop is on the right; and when shall we get there?
-- The prince took a cab and drove to a street near the Na-tivity, where he soon discovered the house he was seeking.
-- The windows looking on the street were open, and the sound of a voice, reading aloud or mak-ing a speech, came through them.
-- He stopped to look about him on bridges, at street corners.
-- When the tubs containing these plants arrived at the villa and were set in their places, Lebedeff kept running into the street to enjoy the view of the house, and every time he did so the rent to be demanded from the future tenant went up with a bound.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Invisible Man A Grotesque Romance By H. G. Wells CONTENTS I The strange Man's Arrival II Mr. Teddy Henfrey's first Impressions III The thousand and one Bottles IV Mr. Cuss interviews the Stranger V The Burglary at the Vicarage VI The Furniture that went mad VII The Unveiling of the Stranger VIII In Transit IX Mr. Thomas Marvel X Mr. Marvel's Visit to Iping XI In the "Coach and Horses" XII The invisible Man loses his Temper XIII Mr. Marvel discusses his Resignation XIV At Port Stowe XV The Man who was running XVI In the "Jolly Cricketers" XVII Dr. Kemp's Visitor XVIII The invisible Man sleeps XIX Certain first Principles XX At the House in Great Portland Street XXI In Oxford Street XXII In the Emporium XXIII In Drury Lane XXIV The Plan that failed XXV The Hunting of the invisible Man XXVI The Wicksteed Murder XXVII The Siege of Kemp's House XXVIII The Hunter hunted The Epilogue CHAPTER I THE STRANGE MAN'S ARRIVAL The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.
-- They sent Millie across the street through the golden five o'clock sunshine to rouse up Mr. Sandy Wadgers, the blacksmith.
-- It was the finest of all possible Whit Mondays, and down the village street stood a row of nearly a dozen booths, a shooting gallery, and on the grass by the forge were three yellow and chocolate waggons and some picturesque strangers of both sexes putting up a cocoanut shy.
-- People down the village heard shouts and shrieks, and looking up the street saw the "Coach and Horses" violently firing out its humanity.
-- Down the street people were standing astonished or running towards them.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- From the palace you could see the rows and rows of roofless houses that made up the city looking like empty honeycombs filled with blackness; the shapeless block of stone that had been an idol in the square where four roads met; the pits and dimples at street corners where the public wells once stood, and the shattered domes of temples with wild figs sprouting on their sides.
-- The man stared, and ran back up the one street of the village shouting for the priest, who was a big, fat man dressed in white, with a red and yellow mark on his forehead.
-- Mowgli went through the village street in the dawn, sitting on the back of Rama, the great herd bull.
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:
-- In my timidity I wandered up and down the street while I screwed up my courage to ring the bell; and then, sick with apprehension, was ushered into an airless room full of people.
-- It was a street of small shops subservient to the needs of poor people, and about the middle of it, on the left as I walked down, was the Hotel des Belges.
-- Then he took to walking along the street which she must pass through to get to the shops, and he would stand at the corner, on the other side, as she went along.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Those sounds came from a little street that led to a small village along the shore.
-- "They say he is a mischief-maker, a tramp, a street urchin--" "Calumnies!All calumnies!"
-- Then Pinocchio, losing all patience, grabbed the knocker with both hands, fully determined to awaken the whole house and street with it.
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