mount是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 登上; 发起, 组织; 安放, 安装; vi. 增长, 加剧; n. [M-,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:
-- Toward the southwest, Mount Tarn rose 6,500 feet high.
-- On the other side of the strait, in Terra del Fuego, stood Mount Sarmiento, towering to a height of 6,000 feet, an enormous accumulation of rocks, separated by bands of cloud, forming a sort of aerial archipelago in the sky.
-- The wagon resumed its course in the opposite direction, and did not stop again till they halted for the night at the foot of Mount Talbot.
-- Men of business were hurrying along the streets; gold buyers were hastening to meet the in-coming escort; the precious metal, guarded by the local police, was coming from the mines at Bendigo and Mount Alexander.
-- Mount Simpson and Mount Terrengower marked the southern point where the boundary of the Loddon district cuts the 144th meridian.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He could not under-stand such a state of things, and was obliged to conclude that it was pride, the pride of an injured and imaginative woman, which had gone to such lengths that it preferred to sit and nurse its contempt and hatred in solitude rather than mount to heights of hitherto unattainable splendour.
-- 'At last he began to mount the steps; his legs were tied, so that he had to take very small steps.
-- If this great Teacher of theirs could have seen Himself after the Crucifixion, how could He have consented to mount the Cross and to die as He did?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If you dare send an arrow at Menelaus you will win honour and thanks from all the Trojans, and especially from prince Alexandrus he would be the first to requite you very handsomely if he could see Menelaus mount his funeral pyre, slain by an arrow from your hand.
-- Mount my chariot, and note how cleverly the horses of Tros can speed hither and thither over the plain in pursuit or flight.
-- Mount the chariot and let us retreat.
-- 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.
-- When he had done speaking Hector held up his sceptre, and swore him his oath saying, 'May Jove the thunder-ing husband of Juno bear witness that no other Trojan but yourself shall mount those steeds, and that you shall have your will with them for ever.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She never saw Laurie mount guard in the hall to warn the servants away.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And that the Egyptians were a nation of mast-head standers, is an assertion based upon the general belief among arch脙娄ologists, that the first pyramids were founded for astronomical purposes: a theory singularly supported by the peculiar stair-like formation of all four sides of those edifices; whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex, and sing out for new stars; even as the look-outs of a modern ship sing out for a sail, or a whale just bearing in sight.
-- For one, I used to lounge up the rigging very leisurely, resting in the top to have a chat with Queequeg, or any one else off duty whom I might find there; then ascending a little way further, and throwing a lazy leg over the top-sail yard, take a preliminary view of the watery pastures, and so at last mount to my ultimate destination.
-- For of these moonlight nights, it was his wont to mount to the main-mast head, and stand a look-out there, with the same precision as if it had been day.
-- The strange, upheaving, lifting tendency of the taffrail breeze filling the hollows of so many sails, made the buoyant, hovering deck to feel like air beneath the feet; while still she rushed along, as if two antagonistic influences were struggling in her one to mount direct to heaven, the other to drive yawingly to some horizontal goal.
-- With a frigate's anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for spurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really lie encamped beyond my mortal sight!
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I advise Mr. Darcy, and Lizzy, and Kitty,' said Mrs. Ben-net, 'to walk to Oakham Mount this morning.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This was a complete enclosure to me; for within I had room enough, and nothing could come at me from without, unless it could first mount my wall.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He approached the first donkey and tried to mount it.
-- "You can mount now, my boy," he then said to Pinocchio.
-- Mount quickly and let us go.
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