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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then a line became defined on the belt of foam, and there gleamed a luminous beacon-light point behind a low hill which concealed the scarcely risen sun.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Seen from the Pequod's deck, then, as she would rise on a high hill of the sea, this host of vapory spouts, individually curling up into the air, and beheld through a blending atmosphere of bluish haze, showed like the thousand cheerful chimneys of some dense metropolis, descried of a balmy autumnal morning, by some horseman on a height.
-- And all from looking at a piece of gold, which did I have it now on Negro Hill or in Corlaer's Hook, I'd not look at it very long ere spending it.
-- Born of earth, yet suckled by the sea; though hill and valley mothered me, ye billows are my foster-brothers!"
-- "'Tis my Mary, my Mary herself!She promised that my boy, every morning, should be carried to the hill to catch the first glimpse of his father's sail!Yes, yes!no more!it is done!we head for Nantucket!Come, my Captain, study out the course, and let us away!See, see!the boy's face from the window!the boy's hand on the hill!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He waited at the bottom of a steep hill till a stage-coach came up, and then begged of the outside passengers; but there were very few who took any notice of him: and even those told him to wait till they got to the top of the hill, and then let them see how far he could run for a halfpenny.
-- They crossed from the Angel into St. John's Road; struck down the small street which terminates at Sadler's Wells Theatre; through Exmouth Street and Coppice Row; down the little court by the side of the workhouse; across the classic ground which once bore the name of Hockley-in-the-Hole; thence into Little Saffron Hill; and so into Saffron Hill the Great: along which the Dodger scudded at a rapid pace, directing Oliver to follow close at his heels.
-- Near to the spot on which Snow Hill and Holborn Hill meet, opens, upon the right hand as you come out of the City, a narrow and dismal alley, leading to Saffron Hill.
-- Crawling forth, from day to day, to some green sunny spot, they have had such memories wakened up within them by the sight of the sky, and hill and plain, and glistening water, that a foretaste of heaven itself has soothed their quick decline, and they have sunk into their tombs, as peacefully as the sun whose setting they watched from their lonely chamber window but a few hours before, faded from their dim and feeble sight!The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Lydia, my love, ring the bell I must speak to Hill this moment.'
-- Mrs. Hill began instantly to express her joy.
-- Wickham' by each of them; and in the mean time, she went after dinner to show her ring, and boast of being married, to Mrs. Hill and the two housemaids.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I looked where he pointed, and saw a dreadful monster indeed, for it was a terrible, great lion that lay on the side of the shore, under the shade of a piece of the hill that hung as it were a little over him.
-- There was a hill not above a mile from me, which rose up very steep and high, and which seemed to overtop some other hills, which lay as in a ridge from it northward.
-- The case was thus: As I was busy in the inside, behind my tent, just at the entrance into my cave, I was terribly fright-ed with a most dreadful, surprising thing indeed; for all on a sudden I found the earth come crumbling down from the roof of my cave, and from the edge of the hill over my head, and two of the posts I had set up in the cave cracked in a frightful manner.
-- I was so much amazed with the thing itself, having never felt the like, nor discoursed with any one that had, that I was like one dead or stupefied; and the motion of the earth made my stomach sick, like one that was tossed at sea; but the noise of the falling of the rock awakened me, as it were, and rousing me from the stupefied condition I was in, filled me with horror; and I thought of nothing then but the hill falling upon my tent and all my household goods, and burying all at once; and this sunk my very soul within me a second time.
-- At the end of this march I came to an opening where the country seemed to descend to the west; and a little spring of fresh water, which issued out of the side of the hill by me, ran the other way, that is, due east; and the country appeared so fresh, so green, so flourishing, every-thing being in a constant verdure or flourish of spring that it looked like a planted garden.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One consolation however remained for them, to which the exigence of the moment gave more than usual propriety; it was that of running with all possible speed down the steep side of the hill which led immediately to their garden gate.
-- A gentleman carrying a gun, with two pointers playing round him, was passing up the hill and within a few yards of Marianne, when her accident happened.
-- The sisters set out at a pace, slow as the feebleness of Marianne in an exercise hitherto untried since her illness required; and they had advanced only so far beyond the house as to admit a full view of the hill, the important hill behind, when pausing with her eyes turned towards it, Marianne calmly said,"There, exactly there," pointing with one hand, "on that projecting mound, there I fell; and there I first saw Willoughby."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As soon as Tom was back we cut along the path, around the garden fence, and by and by fetched up on the steep top of the hill the other side of the house.
-- We went down the hill and found Jo Harper and Ben Rogers, and two or three more of the boys, hid in the old tanyard.
-- This place was a tolerable long, steep hill or ridge about forty foot high.
-- Well, the men gathered around and sympathized with them, and said all sorts of kind things to them, and carried their carpet-bags up the hill for them, and let them lean on them and cry, and told the king all about his brother's last moments, and the king he told it all over again on his hands to the duke, and both of them took on about that dead tan-ner like they'd lost the twelve disciples.
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