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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The grass was growing in the streets, beneath the lazy feet of the citizens, and all trade and business, indeed any description of activity, was impossible.
-- The word PAMPA, of Araucanian origin, signifies grass plain, and justly applies to the whole region.
-- The horses went on at a good pace through the thick PAJA-BRAVA, the grass of the Pampas, par excellence, so high and thick that the Indians find shelter in it from storms.
-- No quadrupeds, however, were visible, but Thalcave pointed to the long grass and thick brushwood, and gave his friends to understand they were lying there in concealment.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some were thickly set with glittering teeth resembling ivory saws; others were tufted with knots of human hair; and one was sickle-shaped, with a vast handle sweeping round like the segment made in the new-mown grass by a long-armed mower.
-- When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg's ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two.
-- Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summer time; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snow-shoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.
-- Spite of this frigid winter night in the boisterous Atlantic, spite of my wet feet and wetter jacket, there was yet, it then seemed to me, many a pleasant haven in store; and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
-- And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But his heart was heavy, notwithstanding; and he wished, as he crept into his narrow bed, that that were his coffin, and that he could be lain in a calm and lasting sleep in the churchyard ground, with the tall grass waving gently above his head, and the sound of the old deep bell to soothe him in his sleep.
-- Before Oliver had time to look round, Sikes had caught him under the arms; and in three or four seconds he and Toby were lying on the grass on the other side.
-- The grass was wet; the pathways, and low places, were all mire and water; the damp breath of an unwholesome wind went languidly by, with a hollow moaning.
-- That garden wall!On the grass inside, he had fallen on his knees last night, and prayed the two men's mercy.
-- The grass was long; but it was trodden down nowhere, save where their own feet had crushed it.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two delightful twilight walks on the third and fourth evenings of her being there, not merely on the dry gravel of the shrubbery, but all over the grounds, and especially in the most distant parts of them, where there was something more of wildness than in the rest, where the trees were the oldest, and the grass was the longest and wettest, had assisted by the still greater imprudence of sitting in her wet shoes and stockings given Marianne a cold so violent as, though for a day or two trifled with or denied, would force itself by increasing ailments on the concern of every body, and the notice of herself.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stopped by the walk side and kicked the grass with his toe.
-- The morrow was Saturday, a half-holiday in many business quarters, and besides it was a balmy, radiant day, with the trees and grass shining exceedingly green after the rain of the night before.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was all grass clear to the canoe, so I hadn't left a track.
-- Then I carried the sack about a hundred yards across the grass and through the willows east of the house, to a shallow lake that was five mile wide and full of rushes and ducks too, you might say, in the season.
-- I laid there in the grass and the cool shade thinking about things, and feeling rested and ruther comfortable and satisfied.
-- About this time I mighty near stepped on a good-sized snake, and it went sliding off through the grass and flowers, and I after it, trying to get a shot at it.
-- When breakfast was ready we lolled on the grass and eat it smoking hot.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Satisfied with their work, they sat on the grass waiting for Pinocchio to give his last gasp.
-- With your strong beak, break the knot which holds him tied, take him down, and lay him softly on the grass at the foot of the oak."
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