chimney是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 烟囱,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:
-- Besides, there was a sort of fireplace in it, with a chimney of bricks, badly enough put together, certainly, but still it allowed of a fire being lighted.
-- "Since there is a chimney in the CASUCHA," said the Major, "the probability is that we shall find something to burn in it."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then Mrs. Bunting turned back the window-curtains, and Mr. Bunting looked up the chimney and probed it with the poker.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cud-dling in the chimney corner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood fire, and where, of course, no spectre dared to show its face, it was dearly pur-chased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The smoke went quite easily out at the narrow passage, the chimney drew, and an agreeable warmth was not long in being felt.
-- As to the volcanic chimney which established a communication between the subterranean layers and the crater, its depth could not be calculated with the eye, for it was lost in obscurity.
-- A chimney was established in the first room, which served as a kitchen.
-- Perhaps the winds which blew directly against the facade would make the chimney smoke, but these winds were rare, and besides, Master Neb, the cook, was not so very particular about that.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A mighty fire was blazing on the hearth and roaring up the wide chimney with a cheerful sound, which a large iron cauldron, bubbling and simmering in the heat, lent its pleasant aid to swell.
-- When he returned, he took his seat in the chimney corner, but remained silent for a long time.
-- The other half served for a kitchen, and was fitted up with a stove whose small chimney passed through the roof.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The chimney now became narrower.
-- That we were inside the chimney of a volcano there could no longer be the shadow of a doubt.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a close, confined room, poorly furnished; and the chimney smoked to boot, or the tin screen at the top of the fireplace was superfluous; but constant pains and care had made it neat, and even, after its kind, comfortable.
-- The modest sunflower and hollyhock were depicted as flourishing with great luxuriance on this rustic dwelling, while a quantity of dense smoke issuing from the chimney indicated good cheer within, and also, perhaps, that it had not been lately swept.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That satisfied Amy, and when she got home she found the vases paraded on the parlor chimney piece with a great bouquet in each.
-- They played tag and soldiers, danced and sang, and when it began to grow dark they all piled onto the sofa about the Professor, while he told charming fairy stories of the storks on the chimney tops, and the little 'koblods', who ride the snowflakes as they fall.
-- Jo turned hot at the bare idea, and stuffed the whole bun-dle into her stove, nearly setting the chimney afire with the blaze.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Crossing this dusky entry, and on through yon low-arched way cut through what in old times must have been a great central chimney with fireplaces all round you enter the public room.
-- The chimney jambs and all the bricks inside were very sooty, so that I thought this fire-place made a very appropriate little shrine or chapel for his Congo idol.
-- I had been cutting up some caper or other I think it was trying to crawl up the chimney, as I had seen a little sweep do a few days previous; and my stepmother who, somehow or other, was all the time whipping me, or sending me to bed supperless, my mother dragged me by the legs out of the chimney and packed me off to bed, though it was only two o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st June, the longest day in the year in our hemisphere.
-- 'Wise Stubb,' said he, 'wise Stubb;' and kept muttering it all the time, a sort of eating of his own gums like a chimney hag.
-- The wind increased to a howl; the waves dashed their bucklers together; the whole squall roared, forked, and crackled around us like a white fire upon the prairie, in which, unconsumed, we were burning; immortal in these jaws of death!In vain we hailed the other boats; as well roar to the live coals down the chimney of a flaming furnace as hail those boats in that storm.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The rooms upstairs had great high wooden chimney -pieces and large doors, with panelled walls and cornices to the ceiling; which, although they were black with neglect and dust, were ornamented in various ways.
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