moss是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 苔， 藓， 地衣，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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Kerick sat down on the moss and pulled out a heavy pewter watch and let the drove cool off for thirty minutes, and Kotick could hear the fog-dew dripping off the brim of his cap.
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：
-- said the scout, shaking his head doubtingly; 'When the sun is scorching the tree tops, and the water courses are full; when the moss on every beech he sees will tell him in what quarter the north star will shine at night.
-- A rapid and oblique glance at the moss on the trees, with an occasional upward gaze toward the setting sun, or a steady but passing look at the direction of the numerous water courses, through which he waded, were sufficient to determine his path, and remove his great- est difficulties.
-- Can he slay a buck for their dinner; journey by the moss on the beeches, or cut the throat of a Huron?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some handfuls of grass, leaves, and dry moss were placed under the fagots and disposed in such a way that the air could easily circulate, and the dry wood would rapidly catch fire.
-- However, a fire could be made by means of the moss and dry brushwood, which covered certain parts of the plateau.
-- They contented themselves with spreading moss and dry leaves on the sand of the passages, and on these primitive couches the tired workers slept soundly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Other voices, silent till now, struck in from boughs lower down and higher up and midway, and to the right and left, and from the tree-tops; and others, arriving hastily from the grey church turrets and old belfry window, joined the clamour which rose and fell, and swelled and dropped again, and still went on; and all this noisy contention amidst a skimming to and fro, and lighting on fresh branches, and frequent change of place, which satirised the old restlessness of those who lay so still beneath the moss and turf below, and the strife in which they had worn away their lives.
-- CHAPTER 48Popular rumour concerning the single gentleman and his errand, travelling from mouth to mouth, and waxing stronger in the marvellous as it was bandied about for your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down occasioned his dismounting at the inn-door to be looked upon as an exciting and attractive spectacle, which could scarcely be enough admired; and drew together a large concourse of idlers, who having recently been, as it were, thrown out of employment by the closing of the wax-work and the completion of the nuptial ceremonies, considered his arrival as little else than a special providence, and hailed it with demonstrations of the liveliest joy.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the same rich green that one sees on forest moss or on the lichen in caves: plants which like these grow in a perpetual twilight.
-- Solid to the touch for I put out my hand and felt the rail of it and with brown spots and smears upon the ivory, and bits of grass and moss upon the lower parts, and one rail bent awry.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Most of the soil had been washed away or buried in drift after the removal of the trees; only where the streamlet ran down from the kettle a thick bed of moss and some ferns and little creeping bushes were still green among the sand.
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