hill是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 小山, 山岗, 高地; [pl.,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:
-- He walked up hill in the mire by the side of the mail, as the rest of the passengers did; not because they had the least relish for walking exercise, under the circumstances, but because the hill, and the harness, and the mud, and the mail, were all so heavy, that the horses had three times already come to a stop, besides once drawing the coach across the road, with the mutinous intent of taking it back to Blackheath.
-- Two other passengers, besides the one, were plodding up the hill by the side of the mail.
-- Except on the crown, which was raggedly bald, he had stiff, black hair, standing jaggedly all over it, and grow-ing down hill almost to his broad, blunt nose.
-- At the steepest point of the hill there was a little burial-ground, with a Cross and a new large figure of Our Saviour on it; it was a poor figure in wood, done by some inexperi-enced rustic carver, but he had studied the figure from the life his own life, maybe for it was dreadfully spare and thin.
-- He moved from end to end of his voluptuous bedroom, looking again at the scraps of the day's journey that came unbidden into his mind; the slow toil up the hill at sunset, the setting sun, the descent, the mill, the prison on the crag, the little village in the hollow, the peasants at the fountain, and the mender of roads with his blue cap pointing out the 178 A tale of two citieschain under the carriage.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With him Martin watched the heroes of yellow fever, Reed, Agramonte, Carroll, and Lazear; with him he landed in a Mexican port stilled with the plague and famished beneath the virulent sun; with him rode up the mountain trails to a hill town rotted with typhus; with him, in crawling August, when babies were parched skeletons, fought an ice trust beneath the gilt and blunted sword of the law.
-- In a two-family house on Social Hill, which is not a hill but a slight swelling in the plain, Martin and Leora found an upper floor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We found the coach very near athand, and got upon the roof, but I was so dead sleepy, that whenwe stopped on the road to take up somebody else, they put meinside where there were no passengers, and where I slept until Ifound the coach going at a footpace up a steep hill among greenleaves.
-- It wasdown in Blackfriars, Modern improvements have altered the place;but it was the last house at the bottom of a narrow street, curvingdown hill to the river, with some stairs at the end, where peopletook boat.
-- We made a pause at the toy-shop in Fleet Street to see the giants ofSaint Dunstan's strike upon the bells- we had timed our going, soas to catch them at it, at twelve o'clock- and then went on towardsLudgate Hill and St. Paul's Churchyard.
-- The church with the slenderspire, that stands on the top of the hill now, was not there to tell methe time.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Why should not they explore to Box Hill though the Sucklings did not come?
-- In the meanwhile the lame horse recovered so fast, that the party to Box Hill was again under happy consideration; and at last Donwell was settled for one day, and Box Hill for the next, the weather appearing exactly right.
-- 'We are going to Box Hill to-morrow; you will join us.
-- Let every body on the Hill hear me if they can.
-- 460 EmmaChapter VIIIThe wretchedness of a scheme to Box Hill was in Emma's thoughts all the evening.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Through a spur of this hill ran the highway between Emminster and Chalk-Newton.
-- A desolating wind wandered from the north over the hill whereon Oak had watched the yellow waggon and its occupant in the sunshine of a few days earlier.
-- The hill was covered on its northern side by an ancient and decaying plantation of beeches, whose upper verge formed a line over the crest, fringing its arched curve against the sky, like a mane.
-- To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement.
-- The sensation may be caused by the panoramic glide of the stars past earthly objects, which is perceptible in a few minutes of stillness, or by the better outlook upon space that a hill affords, or by the wind, or by the solitude; but whatever be its origin, the impression of riding along is vivid and abiding.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I thought of pursuing the devil; but it would have been in vain, for another flash discovered him to me hanging among the rocks of the near-ly perpendicular ascent of Mont Saleve, a hill that bounds Plainpalais on the south.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As they picked their way across the red furrows and down the hill to the river bottom in the deepening dusk, Brentyelled to his brother: "Look, Stu!Don't it seem like to you that Scarlett would have asked us to supper?"
-- Every moment she expected to hear the pounding of his horse's hooves and seehim come charging up the hill at his usual breakneck speed.
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