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。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Your fathers came from the setting sun, crossed the big river*, fought the people of the country, and took the land; and mine came from the red sky of the morning, over the salt lake, and did their work much after the fashion that had been set them by yours; then let God judge the matter be-tween us, and friends spare their words!'
-- Chingachgook has as many different paints as the engineer officer's wife, who takes down natur' on scraps of paper, making the mountains look like cocks of rusty hay, and placing the blue sky in reach of your hand.
-- The head of a warrior needs no other shelter than a sky without clouds; and the Delawares are the enemies, and not the friends of the Yengeese.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance.
-- A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down with the tide, her sail hanging uselessly against the mast; and as the reflection of the sky gleamed along the still water, it seemed as if the vessel was suspended in the air.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sky had still the pallor of dawn, and there was a ghostly silence on the lagoon.
-- I live on an atoll, a low island, it is a strip of land surrounding a lagoon, and its beauty is the beauty of the sea and sky and the varied colour of the lagoon and the grace of the cocoa-nut trees; but the place where Strickland lived had the beauty of the Garden of Eden.
-- Ah, I wish I could make you see the enchantment of that spot, a corner hidden away from all the world, with the blue sky overhead and the rich, luxuriant trees.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile, the sky was clearing little by little.
-- Towards five o'clock in the morning of the 25th of March, the sky began to lighten; the horizon still remained dark, but with daybreak a thick mist rose from the sea, so that the eye could scarcely penetrate beyond twenty feet or so from where they stood.
-- The whole sky was of a threatening aspect, and the first symptoms of a violent storm were clearly visible.
-- The purity of the sky at the zenith was felt through the transparent air.
-- The magnificent constellations of the southern sky shone resplendently.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he used to take me on his knee, and try to make me understand that she was not lying in her grave, but had flown to a beautiful country beyond the sky where nothing died or ever grew old we were very happy once!'
-- It is far better to lie down at night beneath an open sky like that yonder see how bright it is than to rest in close rooms which are always full of care and weary dreams.
-- It was the beginning of a day in June; the deep blue sky unsullied by a cloud, and teeming with brilliant light.
-- 'Let me see,' said the boy, 'I think I'll hang him in the winder, because it's more light and cheerful, and he can see the sky there, if he looks up very much.
-- Men in their dungeons stretched their cramp cold limbs and cursed the stone that no bright sky could warm.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun had hidden behind a low strip of cloud, and from the southern sky a light-gray mass, from which a slanting rain was already pouring in the distance over the fields and forests, was coming on.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently, as I went on, still gaining velocity, the palpitation of night and day merged into one continuous greyness; the sky took on a wonderful deepness of blue, a splendid luminous colour like that of early twilight; the jerking sun became a streak of fire, a brilliant arch, in space; the moon a fainter fluctuating band; and I could see nothing of the stars, save now and then a brighter circle flickering in the blue.
-- At last I tore my eyes from it for a moment, and saw that the hail curtain had worn threadbare, and that the sky was lightening with the promise of the sun.
-- The bushes were inky black, the ground a sombre grey, the sky colourless and cheerless.
-- "As the eastern sky grew brighter, and the light of the day came on and its vivid colouring returned upon the world once more, I scanned the view keenly.
-- The sky was clear, remote, and empty save for a few horizontal bars far down in the sunset.
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