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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Possibly he might have made a useless attempt at flight when his eye fell on Thalcave.
-- He passed two long years of painful slavery among them, but always cherished in his heart the hope of one day regaining his freedom, and watching for the slightest opportunity that might turn up, though he knew that his flight would be attended with innumerable dangers.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Uncle and nephew have been murdered the one frightened to death by the very sight of a beast which he thought to be supernatural, the other driven to his end in his wild flight to escape from it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What a long flight of steps!And there's a porter!Well, Colia I don't know what will come of it all.'
-- 'In the first place, it is not for you to address me as 'sir,' and, in the second place, I refuse to give you any explana-tion,' said Ivan Fedorovitch vehemently; and he rose without another word, and went and stood on the first step of the flight that led from the verandah to the street, turning his back on the company.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Sir,' said he, 'this flight is coward-ly and unworthy.
-- BOOK III hen the companies were thus arrayed, each under its Wown captain, the Trojans advanced as a flight of wild fowl or cranes that scream overhead when rain and win-ter drive them over the flowing waters of Oceanus to bring death and destruction on the Pygmies, and they wrangle in the air as they fly; but the Achaeans marched silently, in high heart, and minded to stand by one another.
-- Diomed looked angrily at him and answered: 'Talk not of flight, for I shall not listen to you: I am of a race that knows neither flight nor fear, and my limbs are as yet un-wearied.
-- Mount my chariot and see what the horses of Tros can do how cleverly they can scud hither and thither over the plain either in flight or in pursuit.
-- Thus did they turn upon the Trojans and slay them, and the Achaeans were thankful to have breathing time in their flight from Hector.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Immediately after, the stranger's hat hopped off the bed-post, described a whirling flight in the air through the better part of a circle, and then dashed straight at Mrs. Hall's face.
-- Somebody in full flight trod heavily on his finger.
-- From the moment when the Invisible Man screamed with rage and Mr. Bunting made his memorable flight up the village, it became impossible to give a consecutive account of affairs in Iping.
-- And it had, though no man had traced it, invariably ended its mysterious flight in the pocket of that agitated gentleman in the obsolete silk hat, sitting outside the little inn on the outskirts of Port Stowe.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So nervous was I that I controlled an impulse to headlong flight with the utmost difficulty.
-- Flight would be madness.
-- I had already encountered some of these creatures, once during my moonlight flight from the Leopard-man, and once during my pursuit by Moreau on the previous day.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then they began their flight; and the flight of the Monkey-People through tree-land is one of the things nobody can describe.
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:
-- The woods are full of deer-paths which run to the streams and licks, places well known to every-body; nor have the geese done their flight to the Canada waters altogether!
-- Merchant of Venice he suddenness of the flight of his guide, and the wild Tcries of the pursuers, caused Heyward to remain fixed, for a few moments, in inactive surprise.
-- Duncan listened with intense anxiety for the strokes of the paddle, believing that flight was now their only refuge.
-- When the first blow was struck, their screaming companions had pressed upon them in a body, rendering flight impossible; and now that fear or death had scattered most, if not all, from around them, they saw no avenue open, but such as conducted to the tomahawks of their foes.
-- A distant flight with that gentle one, just now, is impossible.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The fire-flies, too, which sparkled most vividly in the darkest places, now and then startled him, as one of uncommon bright-ness would stream across his path; and if, by chance, a huge blockhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost, with the idea that he was struck with a witch's token.
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