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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Another effect I noticed, which was the passage of thick clouds which formed and vanished rapidly; but on reflection I understood that these seeming clouds were due to the varying thickness of the reeds at the bottom, and I could even see the fleecy foam which their broken tops multiplied on the water, and the shadows of large birds passing above our heads, whose rapid flight I could discern on the surface of the sea.
-- Besides, flight might be possible if we were in sight of the English or Provencal coast; but on the Papuan shores, it is another thing; and it will be time enough to come to that extremity if the Nautilus does not recover itself again, which I look upon as a grave event."
-- To my great surprise, Captain Nemo gave me the permission I asked for, and he gave it very agreeably, without even exacting from me a promise to return to the vessel; but flight across New Guinea might be very perilous, and I should not have counselled Ned Land to attempt it.
-- After crossing a rather large prairie, we arrived at the skirts of a little wood that was enlivened by the songs and flight of a large number of birds.
-- But these animals did not take to flight so rapidly but what the electric capsule could stop their course.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And then Ursula noticed again the dark, rather stooping figure of Mr Crich, waiting suspended on the path, watching with expressionless face the flight to the church.
-- He did not want to say anything about the flight to the church door.
-- It had a flight of storks streaming through a turquoise sky of light, over a dark earth.
-- They went through a little gate from the high-road, to the head of the water, where was a great stone basin which received the overflow, and a flight of stone steps descended into the depths of the water itself.
-- THRESHOLDGudrun was away in London, having a little show of her work, with a friend, and looking round, preparing for flight from Beldover.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These quills were fixed firmly at the ends of the arrows, the flight of which was made more certain by some cockatoos' feathers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In this flight of fancy, Mr Swiveller was assisted by a deceptive piece of furniture, in reality a bedstead, but in semblance a bookcase, which occupied a prominent situation in his chamber and seemed to defy suspicion and challenge inquiry.
-- In his secret heart, Daniel Quilp was both surprised and troubled by the flight which had been made.
-- Nothing but flight can save us.
-- Certain they considered it, that there was but slender prospect left of hearing of them again, and that whether their flight originated with the old man, or with the child, there was now no hope of their return.
-- CHAPTER 58Mr Swiveller and his partner played several rubbers with varying success, until the loss of three sixpences, the gradual sinking of the purl, and the striking of ten o'clock, combined to render that gentleman mindful of the flight of Time, and the expediency of withdrawing before Mr Sampson and Miss Sally Brass returned.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And last of all, that evident confusion in the sunshine, that hasty yet fumbling awkward flight towards dark shadow, and that peculiar carriage of the head while in the light all reinforced the theory of an extreme sensitiveness of the retina.
-- "I tried to call to them, but the language they had was apparently different from that of the Overworld people; so that I was needs left to my own unaided efforts, and the thought of flight before exploration was even then in my mind.
-- I held it flaring, and saw the white backs of the Morlocks in flight amid the trees.
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