spray是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. /n. 水花; 飞沫; 喷射,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:
-- The clouds were scudding along from the west, and the spray of the waves dashed up even to the sand-hills.
-- For a long time, his dark, motionless SILHOUETTE stood out against the sky, through the white, dashing spray of the waves.
-- The spray was luminous, just as if lit up by sudden phosphorescence.
-- The spray could then dash on the raft without staying there, and the passengers would be kept dry.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As when the west wind hustles the clouds of the white south and beats them down with the fierceness of its fury the waves of the sea roll high, and the spray is flung aloft in the rage of the wandering wind even so thick were the heads of them that fell by the hand of Hector.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And wreaths of dust were spinning round and round before the morning blast, as if the desert-sand had risen far away, and the first spray of it in its advance had begun to over-whelm the city.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Long before we saw the sea, its spray was on ourlips, and showered salt rain upon us.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I saw what the Canadian wanted, and, in any case, I thought it better to let him talk, as he wished it; so we all three went and sat down near the lantern, where we were less exposed to the spray of the blades.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A slight frothy flake arose as the wind blew along the pellucid waters; and many a dash of spray was blown into my face.
-- They raised mountains of water, which dashed in spray over the raft, already tossed to and fro by the waves.
-- The waterspout, rising to a height of five hundred feet, breaks in spray with a dull, sullen roar.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.
-- Take heart, take heart, O Bulkington!Bear thee grimly, demigod!Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!
-- Espied by some timid man-of-war or blundering discovery-vessel from afar, when the distance obscuring the swarming fowls, nevertheless still shows the white mass floating in the sun, and the white spray heaving high against it; straightway the whale's unharming corpse, with trembling fingers is set down in the log shoals, rocks, and breakers hereabouts: beware!And for years afterwards, perhaps, ships shun the place; leaping over it as silly sheep leap over a vacuum, because their leader originally leaped there when a stick was held.
-- In about three minutes' time, Queequeg's harpoon was flung; the stricken fish darted blinding spray in our faces, and then running away with us like light, steered straight for the heart of the herd.
-- However, the masts did not go overboard; and by and by we scrambled down, so sober, that we had to pass the flip again, though the savage salt spray bursting down the forecastle scuttle, rather too much diluted and pickled it to my taste.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- and we had no sooner run out of the cabin to look out, in hopes of see-ing whereabouts in the world we were, than the ship struck upon a sand, and in a moment her motion being so stopped, the sea broke over her in such a manner that we expected we should all have perished immediately; and we were im-mediately driven into our close quarters, to shelter us from the very foam and spray of the sea.
-- Having fitted my mast and sail, and tried the boat, I found she would sail very well; then I made little lockers or boxes at each end of my boat, to put provisions, necessar-ies, ammunition, &c., into, to be kept dry, either from rain or the spray of the sea; and a little, long, hollow place I cut in the inside of the boat, where I could lay my gun, making a flap to hang down over it to keep it dry.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Beneath the lower point of the balloon swung a car, containing five passengers, scarcely visible in the midst of the thick vapor mingled with spray which hung over the surface of the ocean.
-- The last rays of the sun gleamed through the thick foliage and glanced on the little waterfall, making the spray sparkle with all the colors of the rainbow.
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