grass是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 草, 草地,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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a wide margin of grass along here, and Gabriel's footsteps were deadened by its softness, even at this indurating period of the year.
-- It was now early spring the time of going to grass with the sheep, when they have the first feed of the meadows, before these are laid up for mowing.
-- The grass about the margin at this season was a sight to remember long in a minor sort of way.
-- He too stooped, and the lantern standing on the ground betwixt them threw the gleam from its open side among the fir-tree needles and the blades of long damp grass with the effect of a large glowworm.
-- The middle within the belt of verdure was floored with a thick flossy carpet of moss and grass intermingled, so yielding that the foot was half-buried within it.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In that district the pavements are clean and dry, there is neither mud nor water in the gutters, grass grows in the chinks of the walls.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- About five in the morning I dis-covered my lovely boy, whom the night before I had seen blooming and active in health, stretched on the grass livid and motionless; the print of the murderer's finger was on his neck.
-- 'But this was a luxury of sensation that could not en-dure; I became fatigued with excess of bodily exertion and sank on the damp grass in the sick impotence of despair.
-- When it be-came noon, and the sun rose higher, I lay down on the grass and was overpowered by a deep sleep.
-- I knelt on the grass and kissed the earth and with quivering lips exclaimed, 'By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that I feel, I swear; and by thee, O Night, and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the daemon who caused this misery, until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In spring time and summer, the Bermuda grass and clover on the lawn became emerald, so enticing an emeraldthat it presented an irresistible temptation to the flocks of turkeys and white geese that were supposed to roam only theregions in the rear of the house.
-- The elders of the flocks continually led stealthy advances into the front yard, lured onby the green of the grass and the luscious promise of the cape jessamine buds and the zinnia beds.
-- She nodded and he carefully handed her down the front steps and led her across the grass to the iron benchbeneath the largest oak in the front yard.
-- The snow is on the grass again.
-- Their men might be dying, even now, on the sun-parched grass of thePennsylvania hills.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was paved and clean, but grass was growing in every crevice.
-- "If I could have settled down," I said to Biddy, plucking up the short grass within reach, much as I had once upon a time pulled my feelings out of my hair and kicked them into the brewery wall,--"if I could have settled down and been but half as fond of the forge as I was when I was little, I know it would have been much better for me.
-- "Instead of that," said I, plucking up more grass and chewing a blade or two, "see how I am going on.
-- Having made this lunatic confession, I began to throw my torn-up grass into the river, as if I had some thoughts of following it.
-- At first, I had to shut some gates after me, and now and then to stand still while the cattle that were lying in the banked-up pathway arose and blundered down among the grass and reeds.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After he had walked for a long time, he came to the courtyard of a royal palace, and as he felt weary, he lay down on the grass and fell asleep.
-- Then she laid them in the green grass under the juniper- tree, and she had no sooner done so, then all her sadness seemed to leave her, and she wept no more.
-- 'I led her by the rope, tied her to the rack, and scattered some grass for her.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- About two or three days before I was set at liberty, as I was entertaining the court with this kind of feat, there arrived an express to inform his majesty, that some of his subjects, riding near the place where I was first taken up, had seen a great black substance lying on the around, very oddly shaped, extending its edges round, as wide as his maj-esty's bedchamber, and rising up in the middle as high as a man; that it was no living creature, as they at first appre-hended, for it lay on the grass without motion; and some of them had walked round it several times; that, by mounting upon each other's shoulders, they had got to the top, which was flat and even, and, stamping upon it, they found that it was hollow within; that they humbly conceived it might 42 Gulliver's Travelsbe something belonging to the man-mountain; and if his majesty pleased, they would undertake to bring it with only five horses.
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