courtyard是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 院子， 庭院， 天井，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：
-- The doorway of the staircase gives on the little courtyard close to the left here,' pointing with his hand, 'near to the window of my establishment.
-- On their reaching the courtyard he instinctively altered his tread, as being in expectation of a drawbridge; and when there was no drawbridge, and he saw the carriage waiting in the open street, he dropped his daughter's hand and clasped his head again.
-- In a building at the back, attainable by a courtyard where a plane-tree rustled its green leaves, church-organs claimed to be made, and silver to be chased, and likewise gold to be beaten by some mysterious giant who had a golden arm starting out of the wall of the front hall as if he had beaten himself pre-cious, and menaced a similar conversion of all visitors.
-- 166 A tale of two citiesIX The Gorgon's Head t was a heavy mass of building, that chateau of Monsieur Ithe Marquis, with a large stone courtyard before it, and two stone sweeps of staircase meeting in a stone terrace be-fore the principal door.
-- Out of the wine-shop into the street, out of the street into a courtyard, out of the courtyard up a steep staircase, out of the staircase into a garret, formerly the garret where a white-haired man sat on a low bench, stooping forward and very busy, making shoes.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the courtyard the first objects that met Vronsky's eyes were a band of singers in white linen coats, standing near a barrel of vodka, and the robust, good-humored figure of the colonel surrounded by officers.
-- Then the colonel, who began to show signs of feebleness, sat down on a bench in the courtyard and began demonstrating to Yashvin the superiority of Russia over Poland, especially in cavalry attack, and there was a lull in the revelry for a moment.
-- They drove into a courtyard strewn with gravel and bright with flowers, in which two laborers were at work putting an edging of stones round the light mould of a flower bed, and drew up in a covered entry.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now he was diverted by what he considered its foreignness: the lofty walls of wood painted a watery blue, the wide furnitureless spaces, the bougainvillaea at the window, and in the courtyard the merciless heat and rattling metallic leaves of palmettoes.
-- Beyond the courtyard walls were the upper stories of a balconied Chinese shop and the violent- colored skylight of The Blue Bazaar.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He picked up this piece of wood in one of his wanderings in a courtyard where there 104 Crime and Punishmentwas some sort of a workshop.
-- In the courtyard she turned to the right corner.
-- Having found in the corner of the courtyard the entrance to the dark and narrow staircase, he mounted to the second floor and came out into a gallery that ran round the whole second storey over the yard.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he walked up and down that part of the courtyard whichwas at the side of the house, with the stray rooks and jackdawslooking after him with their heads cocked slyly, as if they knewhow much more knowing they were in worldly affairs than he, ifany sort of vagabond could only get near enough to his creakingshoes to attract his attention to one sentence of a tale of distress,that vagabond was made for the next two days.
-- It waslong before Mr. Dick ever spoke to him otherwise thanbareheaded; and even when he and the Doctor had struck up quitea friendship, and would walk together by the hour, on that side ofthe courtyard which was known among us as The Doctor's Walk,Mr. Dick would pull off his hat at intervals to show his respect forwisdom and knowledge.
-- Mr. Spenlow conducted me through a paved courtyard formed ofgrave brick houses, which I inferred, from the Doctors' namesupon the doors, to be the official abiding places of the learnedadvocates of whom Steerforth had told me; and into a large dullroom, not unlike a chapel to my thinking, on the left hand.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Liddy looked from a back window into the courtyard behind, which was now getting low-toned and dim with the earliest films of night.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took refuge in the courtyard be-59longing to the house which I inhabited, where I remained during the rest of the night, walking up and down in the greatest agitation, listening attentively, catching and fear-ing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a courtyard in front, and that was barred; so we had to wait, after ringing the bell, until some one should come to open it.
-- I took the opportunity of being alone in the courtyard to look at my coarse hands and my common boots.
-- I therefore got up and put on my clothes, and went out across the yard into the long stone passage, designing to gain the outer courtyard and walk there for the relief of my mind.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And there was a parlour, and a bedchamber, and a kitchen; and behind the cottage there was a little gar-den, planted with all sorts of flowers and fruits; and there was a courtyard behind, full of ducks and chickens.
-- Everything went right for a week or two, and then Dame Ilsabill said, 'Husband, there is not near room enough for us in this cottage; the courtyard and the garden are a great deal too small; I should like to have a large stone castle to 50 Grimms' Fairy Taleslive in: go to the fish again and tell him to give us a castle.'
-- With that they went into the castle togeth-er, and found a great many servants there, and the rooms all richly furnished, and full of golden chairs and tables; and behind the castle was a garden, and around it was a park half a mile long, full of sheep, and goats, and hares, and deer; and in the courtyard were stables and cow-houses.
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