pile是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 堆, 大量, 大数目v. (up) 堆, 叠, 堆积,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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a pile of mangoes, bananas, oranges, and I know not what and at first sight it was an innocent picture enough.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However, at the mouth of the watercourse and above the reach of the high tide, the convulsions of nature had formed, not a grotto, but a pile of enormous rocks, such as are often met with in granite countries and which bear the name of "Chimneys."
-- Happily the pile of rocks which formed the Chimneys was solid.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Neither did the place present any extraordinary aspect of life or activity, as its only human occupant was an amphibious boy in a canvas suit, whose sole change of occupation was from sitting on the head of a pile and throwing stones into the mud when the tide was out, to standing with his hands in his pockets gazing listlessly on the motion and on the bustle of the river at high-water.
-- This screen, together with two seats in the broad chimney, had at some forgotten date been part of the church or convent; for the oak, hastily appropriated to its present purpose, had been little altered from its former shape, and presented to the eye a pile of fragments of rich carving from old monkish stalls.
-- By no means insensible to the comfort of being within doors, he ordered Tom Scott to pile the little stove with coals, and, dismissing his work for that day, determined to be jovial.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It blundered against a block of granite, staggered aside, and in a moment was hidden in a black shadow beneath another pile of ruined masonry.
-- He, I know for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilisation only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The rest had long been up and had already breakfasted and increased the pile of firewood by about half as much again when I was wakened by a bustle and the sound of voices.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Thereat began a feeble scratching outside, and the pile of books moved as if thrust forward.
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