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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ay, sure that's the machine," chimed in Henery Fray, reflectively, with an Oriental indifference to the flight of time.
-- Believing that the little gallery door alluded to was quite disused, he ascended the external flight of steps at the top of which it stood, and examined it.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The horse took fright at the umbrella, swerved, and dashed forward towards the flight of steps.
-- A Swiss, in scarlet and gold, appeared, the great door groaned on its hinges, and Rastignac, with sweet satisfaction, beheld his equipage pass under the archway and stop before the flight of steps beneath the awning.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His appearance, different from any I had ever before seen, and his flight somewhat surprised me.
-- I saw him descend the moun-tain with greater speed than the flight of an eagle, and quickly lost among the undulations of the sea of ice.
-- The moon had reached her sum-mit in the heavens and was beginning to descend; the clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vulture and dimmed her rays, while the lake reflected the scene of the busy heavens, rendered still busier by the restless waves that were beginning to rise.
-- A gigantic monster, they said, had arrived the night before, armed with a gun and many pis-tols, putting to flight the inhabitants of a solitary cottage through fear of his terrific appearance.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then she turned blindly, benton flight into the refreshment rooms, but her skirt caught on a nail of the booth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He led me into a corner and conducted me up a flight of stairs,--which appeared to me to be slowly collapsing into sawdust, so that one of those days the upper lodgers would look out at their doors and find themselves without the means of coming down,--to a set of chambers on the top floor.
-- And again, for anything I knew, the proffered information might have some important bearing on the flight itself.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his flight he had forgotten the most valuable things he had, the blue light and the gold, and had only one ducat in his pocket.
-- The bird took its flight to a dark wood and remained there for a long time, and meanwhile the parents could hear nothing of their child.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the creatures ran off a second time, before I could seize them; whereupon there was a great shout in a very shrill accent, and after it ceased I heard one of them cry aloud Tolgo phonac; when in an instant I felt above a hundred arrows discharged on my left hand, which, pricked me like so many needles; and besides, they shot another flight into the air, as we do bombs in Europe, whereof many, I suppose, fell on my body, (though I felt them not), and some on my face, which I immediately cov-ered with my left hand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its pursuit, nevertheless, if it kept him near her, or its renunciation if it took him from her, or flight if she shared it, or secrecy if she commanded it, or any fate, or every fate, all was alike to him, so that she was true to him, the man who had seen how cast away she was, whom she had inspired at their first meeting with an admiration, an interest, of which he had thought himself incapable, whom she had received into her confidence, who was devoted to her and adored her.
-- It was further agreed that he should not present himself to Mr. Sleary, lest his intentions should be mistrusted, or the intelligence of his arrival should cause his son to take flight anew; but, that the communication should be left to Sissy and Louisa to open; and that they should inform the cause of so much misery and disgrace, of his father's being at hand and of the purpose for which they had come.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now and then we watched a falcon soaring in the grey and misty air, taking his flight towards warmer and sunnier regions.
-- Here, to our mutual surprise, we found an actual flight of stone steps, which wonderfully assisted our ascent.
-- This singular flight of stairs was, like everything else, volcanic.
-- It was by no means too great a flight of fancy to believe that a giant picture was stretched out before me.
-- Flight was impossible!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As if the aspiring city had become puffed up in the very ground on which it stood, the ground had so risen about Bleeding Heart Yard that you got into it down a flight of steps which formed no part of the original approach, and got out of it by a low gateway into a maze of shabby streets, which went about and about, tortuously ascending to the level again.
-- He starved in the parlour, and I starved in the kitchen; that was the principal difference in our positions; there was not much more than a flight of breakneck stairs between us.
-- But, I mistaken on a point that has caused me more smart in my breast than a flight of savages' arrows could have done!I mistaken on a point that almost sent me into my grave, as I sometimes wished it would, if the grave could only have been made compatible with the tobacco-business and father and mother's feelings!I mistaken on a point that, even at the present moment, makes me take out my pocket-handkerchief like a great girl, as people say: though I am sure I don't know why a great girl should be a term of reproach, for every rightly constituted male mind loves 'em great and small.
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