road是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 路, 道路, 途径,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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then we might have found out the road they had come by taking the exact latitude and longitude, and studying the atmospheric and submarine currents; but with such a postman as a shark, that goes against wind and tide, there's no clew whatever to the starting-point."
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- An hour, however, saw the whole completed; and Mr. Gardiner meanwhile having settled his account at the inn, nothing remained to be done but to go; and Elizabeth, after all the misery of the morn-ing, found herself, in a shorter space of time than she could have supposed, seated in the carriage, and on the road to Longbourn.
-- She is on her road somewhere, I dare say, and so, passing through Meryton, thought she might as well call on you.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My patron lying at home longer than usual without fitting out his ship, which, as I heard, was for want of money, he used constantly, once or twice a week, sometimes oftener if the weather was fair, to take the ship's pinnace and go out into the road a- fishing; and as he always took me and young Maresco with him to row the boat, we made him very merry, and I proved very dexterous in catching fish; insomuch that sometimes he would send me with a Moor, one of his kinsmen, and the youth - the Maresco, as they called him - to catch a dish of fish for him.
-- Accordingly, we set out from Pampeluna with our guide on the 15th of November; and indeed I was surprised when, instead of going forward, he came directly back with us on the same road that we came from Madrid, about twen-ty miles; when, having passed two rivers, and come into the plain country, we found ourselves in a warm climate again, where the country was pleasant, and no snow to be seen; but, on a sudden, turning to his left, he approached the mountains another way; and though it is true the hills and precipices looked dreadful, yet he made so many tours, such meanders, and led us by such winding ways, that we insensibly passed the height of the mountains without being much encumbered with the snow; and all on a sudden he showed us the pleasant and fruitful provinces of Languedoc and Gascony, all green and flourishing, though at a great distance, and we had some rough way to pass still.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They walked along the road through the valley, and chiefly in silence, for Marianne's MIND could not be controlled, and Elinor, satisfied with gaining one point, would not then attempt more.
-- Beyond the entrance of the valley, where the country, though still rich, was less wild and more open, a long stretch of the road which they had travelled on first coming to Barton, lay before them; and on reaching that point, they stopped to look around them, and examine a prospect which formed the distance of their view from the cottage, from a spot which they had never happened to reach in any of their walks before.
-- It had no park, but the pleasure-grounds were tolerably extensive; and like every other place of the same degree of importance, it had its open shrubbery, and closer wood walk, a road of smooth gravel winding round a plantation, led to the front, the lawn was dotted over with timber, the house itself was under the guardianship of the fir, the mountain-ash, and the acacia, and a thick screen of them altogether, interspersed with tall Lombardy poplars, shut out the offices.
-- He had quitted Oxford within four and twenty hours after Lucy's letter arrived, and with only one object before him, the nearest road to Barton, had had no leisure to form any scheme of conduct, with which that road did not hold the most intimate connection.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He would be out on the road and she could be working.
-- "When do you go out on the road again?"
-- The present lake wall of stone and granitoid was not then in place, but the road had been well laid out, the intermediate spaces of lawn were lovely to look upon, and the houses were thoroughly new and imposing.
-- "Just as soon as he goes on the road again we will arrange something.
-- The road downward has but few landings and level places.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And to see the cool way of that nigger why, he wouldn't a give me the road if I hadn't shoved him out o' the way.
-- Keep the river road all the way, and next time you tramp take shoes and socks with you.
-- Sich another hurryin' up guns en hosses YOU never see!De women folks has gone for to stir up de relations, en ole Mars Saul en de boys tuck dey guns en rode up de river road for to try to ketch dat young man en kill him 'fo' he kin git acrost de river wid Miss So-phia.
-- I took up the river road as hard as I could put.
-- Children was heeling it ahead of the mob, screaming and trying to get out of the way; and ev-ery window along the road was full of women's heads, and there was nigger boys in every tree, and bucks and wenches looking over every fence; and as soon as the mob would get nearly to them they would break and skaddle back out of reach.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "The road is dangerous."
-- Once again the road was plunged in darkness.
-- On the road I met two Assassins dressed in black coal sacks, who said to me, 'Your money or your life!'
-- Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free!Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
-- It had rained for many days, and the road was so muddy that, at times, Pinocchio sank down almost to his knees.
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