red是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 红的, 红色的n. 红色; 红色颜料,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:
-- Amongst these specimens I will quote from memory only the elegant royal hammer-fish of the Indian Ocean, whose regular white spots stood out brightly on a red and brown ground, an imperial spondyle, bright-coloured, bristling with spines, a rare specimen in the European museums (I estimated its value at not less than L1000); a common hammer-fish of the seas of New Holland, which is only procured with difficulty; exotic buccardia of Senegal; fragile white bivalve shells, which a breath might shatter like a soap-bubble; several varieties of the aspirgillum of Java, a kind of calcareous tube, edged with leafy folds, and much debated by amateurs; a whole series of trochi, some a greenish-yellow, found in the American seas, others a reddish-brown, natives of Australian waters; others from the Gulf of Mexico, remarkable for their imbricated shell; stellari found in the Southern Seas; and last, the rarest of all, the magnificent spur of New Zealand; and every description of delicate and fragile shells to which science has given appropriate names.
-- Apart, in separate compartments, were spread out chaplets of pearls of the greatest beauty, which reflected the electric light in little sparks of fire; pink pearls, torn from the pinna-marina of the Red Sea; green pearls of the haliotyde iris; yellow, blue and black pearls, the curious productions of the divers molluscs of every ocean, and certain mussels of the water-courses of the North; lastly, several specimens of inestimable value which had been gathered from the rarest pintadines.
-- It was a real grief to me to crush under my feet the brilliant specimens of molluscs which strewed the ground by thousands, of hammerheads, donaciae (veritable bounding shells), of staircases, and red helmet-shells, angel-wings, and many others produced by this inexhaustible ocean.
-- I noticed that the green plants kept nearer the top of the sea, whilst the red were at a greater depth, leaving to the black or brown the care of forming gardens and parterres in the remote beds of the ocean.
-- long., had seen some iron bars and red stuffs used by the natives of these parts.
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:
-- They were of darkened red brick, brittle, with dark slate roofs.
-- The sisters passed in silence through the stone gateway and up the steps, on the red carpet, a policeman estimating their progress.
-- How she hated walking up the churchyard path, along the red carpet, continuing in motion, in their sight.
-- Behind her, the large red building of the school rose up peacefully, the windows all open for the holiday.
-- There was a stir in the crowd at the gate, a concentration as a carriage drove up, wedding guests were mounting up the steps and passing along the red carpet to the church.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Morlocks at any rate were carnivorous!Even at the time, I remember wondering what large animal could have survived to furnish the red joint I saw.
-- It was all very indistinct: the heavy smell, the big unmeaning shapes, the obscene figures lurking in the shadows, and only waiting for the darkness to come at me again!Then the match burnt down, and stung my fingers, and fell, a wriggling red spot in the blackness.
-- Southward (as I judged it) was a very bright red star that was new to me; it was even more splendid than our own green Sirius.
-- The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Let's pretend that you're the Red Queen, Kitty!Do you know, I think if you sat up and folded your arms, you'd look exactly like her.
-- And Alice got the Red Queen off the table, and set it up before the kitten as a model for it to imitate: however, the thing didn't succeed, principally, Alice said, because the kitten wouldn't fold its arms properly.
-- 'Here are the Red King and the Red Queen,' Alice said (in a whisper, for fear of frightening them), 'and there are the White King and the White Queen sitting on the edge of the shovel and here are two castles walking arm in arm I don't think they can hear me,' she went on, as she put her head closer down, 'and I'm nearly sure they can't see me.
-- Alice looked round eagerly, and found that it was the Red Queen.
-- This sounded nonsense to Alice, so she said nothing, but set off at once towards the Red Queen.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There were several additions of a later date, but above all, three crosses of red ink two on the north part of the island, one in the southwest and beside this last, in the same red ink, and in a small, neat hand, very different from the captain's tottery characters, these words: "Bulk of treasure here."
-- The sign was newly painted; the windows had neat red curtains; the floor was cleanly sanded.
-- But that was by no means the worst of it, for after a day or two at sea he began to appear on deck with hazy eye, red cheeks, stuttering tongue, and other marks of drunkenness.
-- So it was with the Cassandra, as brought us all safe home from Malabar, after England took the viceroy of the Indies; so it was with the old Walrus, Flint's old ship, as I've seen amuck with the red blood and fit to sink with gold."
-- This was not the map we found in Billy Bones's chest, but an accurate copy, complete in all things names and heights and soundings with the single exception of the red crosses and the written notes.
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