sky是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 天空; [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《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In this rough clothing, with a commonmariner's telescope under his arm, and a shrewd trick of castingup his eye at the sky as looking out for dirty weather, he was farmore nautical, after his manner, than Mr. Peggotty.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The cold, how-ever, was severe; and by the time the second carriage was in motion, a few flakes of snow were finding their way down, and the sky had the appearance of being so overcharged as to want only a milder air to produce a very white world in a very short time.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The sky was clear remarkably clear and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
-- Being a man not without a frequent consciousness that there was some charm in this life he led, he stood still after looking at the sky as a useful instrument, and regarded it in an appreciative spirit, as a work of art superlatively beautiful.
-- On a day which had a summer face and a winter constitution a fine January morning, when there was just enough blue sky visible to make cheerfully-disposed people wish for more, and an occasional gleam of silvery sunshine, Oak put the lamb into a respectable Sunday basket, and stalked across the fields to the house of Mrs. Hurst, the aunt George, the dog walking behind, with a countenance of great concern at the serious turn pastoral affairs seemed to be taking.
-- When, in the writings of the later poets, Jove and his family are found to have moved from their cramped quarters on the peak of Olympus into the wide sky above it, their words show a proportionate increase of arrogance and reserve.
-- The full power of the clear heaven was not equal to that of a cloudy sky at noon, when Boldwood arose and dressed himself.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy.
-- Your summits are clear; the sky and lake are blue and placid.
-- The sky was serene; and, as I was unable to rest, I resolved to visit the spot where my poor William had been murdered.
-- This noble war in the sky el-evated my spirits; I clasped my hands, and exclaimed aloud, 'William, dear angel!this is thy funeral, this thy dirge!'
-- I looked on the valley beneath; vast mists were rising from the rivers which ran through it and curling in thick wreaths around the opposite mountains, whose summits were hid in the uniform clouds, while rain poured from the dark sky and added to the melancholy impression I received from the objects around me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The sky above turned slowly from azure to the delicate blue-green of a robin's egg, andthe unearthly stillness of rural twilight came stealthily down about her.
-- The shadows were falling thicker now, the last greenish tinge had left the sky and a slight chill was displacing thebalminess of spring.
-- But, today she had no eye for sun or azure sky beyond a hasty thought, "Thank God, it isn'training."
-- The hours dragged by and the black shadow of calamity brooded over the town, obscuring the hot sun until peoplelooked up startled into the sky as if incredulous that it was clear and blue instead of murky and heavy with scuddingclouds.
-- The dark sky became pink and then dull red, and suddenly above the trees, she saw a hugetongue of flame leap high to the heavens.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.
-- One Sunday when Joe, greatly enjoying his pipe, had so plumed himself on being "most awful dull," that I had given him up for the day, I lay on the earthwork for some time with my chin on my hand, descrying traces of Miss Havisham and Estella all over the prospect, in the sky and in the water, until at last I resolved to mention a thought concerning them that had been much in my head.
-- What with the cries aboard the steamer, and the furious blowing off of her steam, and her driving on, and our driving on, I could not at first distinguish sky from water or shore from shore; but the crew of the galley righted her with great speed, and, pulling certain swift strong strokes ahead, lay upon their oars, every man looking silently and eagerly at the water astern.
-- The sky was blue, the larks were soaring high over the green corn, I thought all that countryside more beautiful and peaceful by far than I had ever known it to be yet.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The plan pleased him much, and he soon became such a skilful star-gazer, that when he had served out his time, and wanted to leave his master, he gave him a glass, and said, 'With this you can see all that is passing in the sky and on earth, and nothing can be hidden from you.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I walked awhile among the rocks: the sky was perfectly clear, and the sun so hot, that I was forced to turn my face from it: when all on a sudden it became obscure, as I thought, in a manner very different from what happens by the in-terposition of a cloud.
-- I turned back, and perceived a vast opaque body between me and the sun moving forwards to-wards the island: it seemed to be about two miles high, and hid the sun six or seven minutes; but I did not observe the air to be much colder, or the sky more darkened, than if I had stood under the shade of a mountain.
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