flight是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 飞翔， 飞行； 航班； 航程； 逃跑； 楼梯的一段，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You may talk vaguely about driving a coach-and-six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Par-liament; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter-bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Up the broad flight of shallow steps, Monsieur the Marquis, flambeau preceded, went from his carriage, suffi-ciently disturbing the darkness to elicit loud remonstrance from an owl in the roof of the great pile of stable building away among the trees.
-- The house belonged to a great nobleman who had lived in it until he made a flight from the troubles, in his own cook's dress, and got across the borders.
-- He knew, as every one employed as he was did, that he was never safe; that flight was impossible; that he was tied fast under the shadow of the axe; and that in spite of his utmost tergiversation and treachery in furtherance of the reigning terror, a word might bring it down upon him.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to ourselves, we all know the speed produced by the employment of steam; we have experienced it either on rail-roads, or in boats when crossing the sea; but such a flight is like the travelling of a sloth in comparison with the velocity with which light moves.
-- And during their whole flight the Elder Tree smelt so sweet and odorous; he remarked the roses and the fresh beeches, but the Elder Tree had a more won-drous fragrance, for its flowers hung on the breast of the little maiden; and there, too, did he often lay his head dur-ing the flight.
-- The whole passage was hung with portraits of knights in armor, and ladies in silken gowns; and the armor rattled, 146 Andersen's Fairy Talesand the silken gowns rustled!And then there was a flight of stairs which went a good way upwards, and a little way downwards, and then one came on a balcony which was in a very dilapidated state, sure enough, with large holes and long crevices, but grass grew there and leaves out of them altogether, for the whole balcony outside, the yard, and the walls, were overgrown with so much green stuff, that it looked like a garden; only a balcony.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 17 Next day at eleven o'clock in the morning Vronsky drove to the station of the Petersburg railway to meet his mother, and the first person he came across on the great flight of steps was Oblonsky, who was expecting his sister by the same train.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A robber doesn't quite like to leave traces of his flight behind him; and, besides, he is not obliged to have his passport countersigned."
-- Passports are only good for annoying honest folks, and aiding in the flight of rogues.
-- He held himself ready to bestride the animal at a moment's notice, should flight become necessary; but he evidently thought that the procession of the faithful would pass without perceiving them amid the thick foliage, in which they were wholly concealed.
-- Fix smiled at this remark; and, in order to be able to see without being jostled about, the party took up a position on the top of a flight of steps situated at the upper end of Montgomery Street.
-- He did not finish his sentence; for a terrific hubbub now arose on the terrace behind the flight of steps where they stood, and there were frantic shouts of, "Hurrah for Mandiboy!Hip, hip, hurrah!"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ahead of him, in the cork-floored hallway lit only by a tiny electric globe, Leora was tiptoeing toward a flight of stairs.
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：
-- They were approaching; they were only a flight from him and suddenly deliverance!A few steps from him on the right, there was an empty flat with the door wide open, the flat on the second floor where the painters had been at work, and which, as though for his benefit, they had just left.
-- Turning in at the gateway, he saw on the right a flight of stairs which a peasant was mounting with a book in his hand.
-- Through the crack 芒聙娄' They were already at the foot of the last flight of stairs, at the level of the landlady's door, and they could, as a fact, see from below that there was a light in Raskolnikov's garret.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a flight of stairs,it gives me as much trouble to draw every breath I want, as if itwere a bucket of water.
-- 'The cause of her flight is too well understood,' I said.
-- My homage to Miss Wickfield, is a flight of arrows in my bosom.
-- If thiswill not do either, die!There are doorways and dust-heaps for suchdeaths, and such despair- find one, and take your flight toHeaven!'
-- 'When my Em'ly took flight,' he said, in stern wrath for themoment, 'from the house wheer she was made a pris'ner by thattheer spotted snake as Mas'r Davy see- and his story's trew, andmay GOD confound him!- she took flight in the night.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt for Harriet, with pain and with contrition; but no flight of generosity run mad, opposing all that could be probable or reasonable, entered her brain.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some persons may have noticed how extraordinarily the striking of quarters seems to quicken the flight of time.
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