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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The condor was encircling in his flight a sort of inaccessible plateau about a quarter of a mile up the side of the mountain.
-- But we had better push on now, for your illustrious Chateaubriand has put us more than a mile behind."
-- About a mile further he stopped again, and leaving the straight route, made a circuit of some miles north and south, and then returned and fell back in his place at the head of the troop, without saying a syllable as to what he hoped or feared.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As the weather was fine, they had a pleasant walk of about half a mile across the park.
-- It was not in their direct road, nor more than a mile or two out of it.
-- They soon outstripped the others, and when they had reached the carriage, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner were half a quarter of a mile behind.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I got up out of my cabin and looked out; but such a dismal sight I never saw: the sea ran mountains high, and broke upon us every three or four minutes; when I could look about, I could see nothing but distress round us; two ships that rode near us, we found, had cut their masts by the board, being deep laden; and our men cried out that a ship which rode about a mile ahead of us was foundered.
-- The castle, which is at the entrance of the port, knew who we were, and took no notice of us; and we were not above a mile out of the port before we hauled in our sail and set us down to fish.
-- I did not care to go out of sight of the boat, fearing the coming of canoes with savages down the river; but the boy seeing a low place about a mile up the country, rambled to it, and by-and-by I saw him come running towards me.
-- This being within about a mile from the shore where I was, and the ship seeming to stand upright still, I wished myself on board, that at least I might save some necessary things for my use.
-- I walked as far as I could upon the shore to have got to her; but found a neck or inlet of water between me and the boat which was about half a mile broad; so I came back for the present, be-ing more intent upon getting at the ship, where I hoped to find something for my present subsistence.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- CHAPTER 7Barton Park was about half a mile from the cottage.
-- About a mile and a half from the cottage, along the narrow winding valley of Allenham, which issued from that of Barton, as formerly described, the girls had, in one of their earliest walks, discovered an ancient respectable looking mansion which, by reminding them a little of Norland, interested their imagination and made them wish to be better acquainted with it.
-- Delaford is a nice place, I can tell you; exactly what I call a nice old fashioned place, full of comforts and conveniences; quite shut in with great garden walls that are covered with the best fruit-trees in the country; and such a mulberry tree in one corner!Lord!how Charlotte and I did stuff the only time we were there!Then, there is a dove-cote, some delightful stew-ponds, and a very pretty canal; and every thing, in short, that one could wish for; and, moreover, it is close to the church, and only a quarter of a mile from the turnpike-road, so 'tis never dull, for if you only go and sit up in an old yew arbour behind the house, you may see all the carriages that pass along.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I did go part of the way, but I left the Party a mile down the road."
-- The end came with a real mob, which met the car on its return trip a mile or two from the barns.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Well, when Tom and me got to the edge of the hill- top we looked away down into the village and could see three or four lights twinkling, where there was sick folks, maybe; and the stars over us was sparkling ever so fine; and down by the village was the river, a whole mile broad, and awful still and grand.
-- So we unhitched a skiff and pulled down the river two mile and a half, to the big scar on the hillside, and went ashore.
-- Well, about this time he was found in the river drownded, about twelve mile above town, so people said.
-- So he watched out for me one day in the spring, and catched me, and took me up the river about three mile in a skiff, and crossed over to the Illinois shore where it was woody and there warn't no houses but an old log hut in a place where the timber was so thick you couldn't find it if you didn't know where it was.
-- He said he would watch out, and if they tried to come any such game on him he knowed of a place six or seven mile off to stow me in, where they might hunt till they dropped and they couldn't find me.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had gone barely half a mile when he met a lame Fox and a blind Cat, walking together like two good friends.
-- After a mile or so, Pinocchio again heard the same faint voice whispering: "Remember, little simpleton!Boys who stop studying and turn their backs upon books and schools and teachers in order to give all their time to nonsense and pleasure, sooner or later come to grief.
-- "His body, not counting the tail, is almost a mile long."
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