gate是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 大门; 入口; 观众人数, 门票收入,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。
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The distance from the gate to the grange is two miles; I believe I managed to make it four, what with losing myself among the trees, and sinking up to the neck in snow: a predicament which only those who have experienced it can appreciate.
-- Mrs. Earnshaw expected him by supper time on the third evening, and she put the meal off hour after hour; there were no signs of his coming, however, and at last the children got tired of running down to the gate to look.
-- 'And the gate is open: he is somewhere out of hearing; for he would not reply, though I shouted at the top of the fold as loud as I could.
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