mile是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 英里, 哩, 海里,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Young Jer-ry very well knew what it would be; but, when he saw it, and saw his honoured parent about to wrench it open, he was so frightened, being new to the sight, that he made off again, and never stopped until he had run a mile or more.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- *A Danish mile is nearly/4 English.
-- Within, down it sunk per-pendicularly into a caldron, about a Danish mile in depth; while below lay a town, whose appearance we can, in some measure, realize to ourselves by beating the white of an egg in a glass Of water.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was not a quarter of a mile from home when he saw Grisha and Tanya running to meet him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Rangoon was moored half a mile off in the harbour, its signal of departure hoisted at the mast-head.
-- The road grew, on the prairies, a mile and a half a day.
-- This was a suspension-bridge thrown over some rapids, about a mile from the place where they now were.
-- "But it is only a mile from here," said one of the passengers.
-- The soldiers rushed out of the fort, and half a mile off they perceived a little band returning in good order.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You yoost turn back one mile and turn to the right by the brick schoolhouse, and it's about forty rods up the road--the house with a cement silo.
-- Martin swung the Ford about, grazing a slashed chopping block; he rattled up the road, took the corner that side of the schoolhouse instead of this, ran half a mile along a boggy trail between pastures, and stopped at a farmhouse.
-- Not till then did Martin completely realize that he was leaving Wheatsylvania--the tedium of Bert Tozer's nagging--the spying of Pete Yeska and the Norbloms--the inevitability of turning, as so many unchanging times he had turned, south from the Leopolis road at the Two Mile Grove and following again that weary, flat, unbending trail--the superiority of Dr. Hesselink and the malice of Dr. Coughlin--the round which left him no time for his dusty laboratory--leaving it all for the achievement and splendor of the great city of Nautilus.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nobody wears such a hat, it would be noticed a mile off, it would be remembered芒聙娄.
-- The police-station was about a quarter of a mile off.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We were welcomed by a very civil woman in a white apron, whomI had seen curtseying at the door when I was on Ham's back, abouta quarter of a mile off.
-- For my own part, I looked on Mr. JackMaldon as a modern Sinbad, and pictured him the bosom friend of 231all the Rajahs in the East, sitting under canopies, smoking curlygolden pipes- a mile long, if they could be straightened out.
-- 'My dear,' said Mr. Omer, 'I don't say it's the case with you,'winking at me, 'but I say that half the women in Yarmouth, ah!andin five mile round, are mad against that girl.'
-- Istayed to dine at a decent alehouse, some mile or two from theferry I have mentioned before; and thus the day wore away, and itwas evening when I reached it.
-- They found him a mile off.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- How was she to bear the change? It was true that her friend was going only half a mile from them; but Emma was aware that great must be the difference between a Mrs. Weston, only half a mile from them, and a Miss Tay-lor in the house; and with all her advantages, natural and domestic, she was now in great danger of suffering from in-tellectual solitude.
-- He lived about a mile from Highbury, was a frequent visitor, and always welcome, and at this time more welcome than usual, as coming directly from their mutual connexions in London.
-- Oh no; we all felt that we were going to be only half a mile apart, and were sure of meeting every day.'
-- A few inferior dwellings were first to be passed, and then, about a quarter of a mile down the lane rose the Vicarage, an old and not very good house, almost as close to the road as it could be.
-- And, by what I understand, you might have had lodgings there quite away from the sea a quarter of a mile off very comfortable.
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