camp是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 野营, 营地; 帐篷, 阵营v. 设营, 宿营,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:
-- The custom of the muleteers is to start immediately after breakfast, about eight o'clock, and not to stop till they camp for the night, about 4 P. M. Glenarvan fell in with the practice, and the first halt was just as they arrived at Arauco, situated at the very extremity of the bay.
-- They got back to the camp in less than half an hour, and were hailed with acclamations by the whole party or rather the provisions and horses were.
-- "Start at once, then, and we will camp here, on the banks of the Wimerra, till you return."
-- CHAPTER XI CRIME OR CALAMITYIT was not without apprehension that the Major saw Ayrton quit the Wimerra camp to go and look for a blacksmith at the Black Point Station.
-- The fine rain was falling, which, in any other country, would have soaked the ground; but here the air absorbed the moisture so wonderfully that the camp did not suffer in the least.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Well, Kolpakoff went back to the barracks, lay down on a camp bedstead, and in a quarter of an hour was dead: you quite understand?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Moreover let the heralds tell it about the city that the growing youths and grey-bearded men are to camp upon its heaven-built walls.
-- 'Now, however, let us obey the behests of night and get our suppers, but let the sentinels every man of them camp by the trench that is without the wall.
-- 'Wait,' answered King Agamemnon, 'for there are so many paths about the camp that we might miss one another.
-- Then he took a pointed javelin, and left the camp for the ships, but he was not to return with any news for Hector.
-- Dolon suspected nothing and soon passed them, but when he had got about as far as the dis-tance by which a mule-plowed furrow exceeds one that has been ploughed by oxen (for mules can plow fallow land quicker than oxen) they ran after him, and when he heard their footsteps he stood still, for he made sure they were friends from the Trojan camp come by Hector's orders to bid him return; when, however, they were only a spear's cast, or less away form him, he saw that they were enemies as fast as his legs could take him.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He very much preferred the camp life, and hated those broad, flat roads, with the daily grubbing for grass in the forage reserve, and the long hours when there was nothing to do except to watch Kala Nag fidgeting in his pickets.
-- What Little Toomai liked was to scramble up bridle paths that only an elephant could take; the dip into the val-ley below; the glimpses of the wild elephants browsing miles away; the rush of the frightened pig and peacock under Kala Nag's feet; the blinding warm rains, when all the hills and valleys smoked; the beautiful misty mornings when no-body knew where they would camp that night; the steady, cautious drive of the wild elephants, and the mad rush and blaze and hullabaloo of the last night's drive, when the ele-phants poured into the stockade like boulders in a landslide, found that they could not get out, and flung themselves at the heavy posts only to be driven back by yells and flaring torches and volleys of blank cartridge.
-- And in this way, talking and wrangling and splashing through the rivers, they made their first march to a sort of receiving camp for the new elephants.
-- But the sweetmeat seller in the camp lent him a lit-tle tom-tom a drum beaten with the flat of the hand and he sat down, cross-legged, before Kala Nag as the stars be-gan to come out, the tom-tom in his lap, and he thumped and he thumped and he thumped, and the more he thought of the great honor that had been done to him, the more he thumped, all alone among the elephant fodder.
-- The new elephants strained at their ropes, and squealed and trumpeted from time to time, and he could hear his mother in the camp hut putting his small brother to sleep with an old, old song about the great God Shiv, who once told all the animals what they should eat.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In an instant the whole camp was in motion; the meanest soldier arousing from his lair to witness the de-parture of his comrades, and to share in the excitement and incidents of the hour.
-- His eyes fell on the still, upright, and rigid form of the 'Indian runner,' who had borne to the camp the unwelcome tidings of the preceding evening.
-- The simple admirer of the war-horse instantly fell back to a low, gaunt, switch-tailed mare, that was unconsciously gleaning the faded herbage of the camp nigh by; where, leaning with one elbow on the blanket that concealed an apology for a saddle, he became a spectator of the departure, while a foal was quietly making its morning repast, on the opposite side of the same animal.
-- There are them in the camp who say and think, man, to lie still, should not be buried while the breath is in the body; and certain it is that in the hurry of that evening, the doctors had but little time to say who was living and who was dead.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But when I got to shore pap wasn't in sight yet, and as I was running her into a little creek like a gully, all hung over with vines and willows, I struck another idea: I judged I'd hide her good, and then, 'stead of taking to the woods when I run off, I'd go down the river about fifty mile and camp in one place for good, and not have such a rough time tramping on foot.
-- I got my traps out of the canoe andmade me a nice camp in the thick woods.
-- I catched a catfish and haggled him open with my saw, and towards sundown I started my camp fire and had supper.
-- When it was dark I set by my camp fire smoking, and feeling pretty well satisfied; but by and by it got sort of lone-some, and so I went and set on the bank and listened to the current swashing along, and counted the stars and drift logs and rafts that come down, and then went to bed; there ain't no better way to put in time when you are lonesome; you can't stay so, you soon get over it.
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