gallop是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 奔驰, 飞奔,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 his eyes became dim; he recovered himself in a moment, and without a word or look, set off at a gallop toward Eden.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Just then the noise of horses topped the rise, and four or five riders came in sight in the moonlight and swept at full gallop down the slope.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Twelve filly foals did they conceive and bear him, and these, as they sped over the rich plain, would go bounding on over the ripe ears of corn and not break them; or again when they would disport themselves on the broad back of Ocean they could gallop on the crest of a breaker.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He turned and galloped (a seal can gallop very swiftly for a short time) back to the sea; his little new mustache bristling with hor-ror.
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:
-- Notwithstanding a constant application of his one armed heel to the flanks of the mare, the most confirmed gait that he could establish was a Canterbury gallop with the hind legs, in which those more forward assisted for doubtful mo-ments, though generally content to maintain a loping trot.
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