snow是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 雪, 下雪vi. 下雪; 如雪一般地落下,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The articles and editorials regarding him, in newspapers, house organs, and one rubber-goods periodical, were accompanied by photographs of himself, his buxom wife, and his eight bounding daughters, depicted in Canadian winter costumes among snow and icicles, in modest but easy athletic costumes, playing tennis in the backyard, and in costumes of no known genus whatever, frying bacon against a background of Northern Minnesota pines.
-- He demanded: "What're you going to wear at Pickerbaugh's snow picnic tomorrow?"
-- In that wry mood they went on Saturday afternoon to the Pickerbaughs' snow picnic.
-- When their skiis were entangled, they rolled into a drift, and as she clung to him, unafraid and unembarrassed, it seemed to him that in the roughness of tweeds she was but the softer and more wonderful--eyes fearless, cheeks brilliant as she brushed the coating of wet snow from them, flying legs of a slim boy, shoulders adorable in their pretense of sturdy boyishness-- But "I'm a sentimental fool!Leora was right!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I love to hear singing to a street organ,' said Raskolnikov, and his manner seemed strangely out of keeping with the subject 'I like it on cold, dark, damp autumn evenings they must be damp when all the passers-by have pale green, sickly faces, or better still when wet snow is falling straight down, when there's no wind you know what I mean? and the street lamps shine through it 芒聙娄' 'I don't know芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The old-fashioned brass knocker on thelow arched door, ornamented with carved garlands of fruit andflowers, twinkled like a star; the two stone steps descending to thedoor were as white as if they had been covered with fair linen; andall the angles and corners, and carvings and mouldings, and quaintlittle panes of glass, and quainter little windows, though as old asthe hills, were as pure as any snow that ever fell upon the hills.
-- How often, at hare and hounds, have I seen him mounted on alittle knoll, cheering the whole field on to action, and waving hishat above his grey head, oblivious of King Charles the Martyr'shead, and all belonging to it!How many a summer-hour have Iknown 239to be but blissful minutes to him in the cricket-field!How manywinter days have I seen him, standing blue-nosed, in the snow andeast wind, looking at the boys down the long slide, and clappinghis worsted gloves in rapture!
-- he replied, shaking the snow out of his long hair, 'I was agoing to turn in somewheers.'
-- He shook the snow from his hat and clothes, and brushed it awayfrom his face, while I was inwardly making these remarks.
-- I saw the door move, and the snow drift in.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The cold, how-ever, was severe; and by the time the second carriage was in motion, a few flakes of snow were finding their way down, and the sky had the appearance of being so overcharged as to want only a milder air to produce a very white world in a very short time.
-- 'Quite sea-sonable; and extremely fortunate we may think ourselves that it did not begin yesterday, and prevent this day's party, which it might very possibly have done, for Mr. Woodhouse would hardly have ventured had there been much snow on the ground; but now it is of no consequence.
-- 'I admired your resolution very much, sir,' said he, 'in venturing out in such weather, for of course you saw there would be snow very soon.
-- Every body must have seen the snow coming on.
-- Another hour or two's snow can 154 Emmahardly make the road impassable; and we are two carriages; if one is blown over in the bleak part of the common field there will be the other at hand.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The vast arch of cloud above was strangely low, and formed as it were the roof of a large dark cavern, gradually sinking in upon its floor; for the instinctive thought was that the snow lining the heavens and that encrusting the earth would soon unite into one mass without any intervening stratum of air at all.
-- About this hour the snow abated: ten flakes fell where twenty had fallen, then one had the room of ten.
-- Then a morsel of snow flew across the river towards the fifth window.
-- His window admitted only a reflection of its rays, and the pale sheen had that reversed direction which snow gives, coming upward and lighting up his ceiling in an unnatural way, casting shadows in strange places, and putting lights where shadows had used to be.
-- Boldwood was listlessly noting how the frost had hardened and glazed the surface of the snow, till it shone in the red eastern light with the polish of marble; how, in some portions of the slope, withered grass-bents, encased in icicles, bristled through the smooth wan coverlet in the twisted and curved shapes of old Venetian glass; and how the footprints of a few birds, which had hopped over the snow whilst it lay in the state of a soft fleece, were now frozen to a short permanency.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators there snow and frost are ban-ished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe.
-- They fly quickly over the snow in their sledges; the motion is pleasant, and, in my opinion, far more agreeable than that of an English stagecoach.
-- Summer passed away in these occupations, and my re-turn to Geneva was fixed for the latter end of autumn; but being delayed by several accidents, winter and snow arrived, the roads were deemed impassable, and my journey was re-tarded until the ensuing spring.
-- A great fall of snow had taken place the night before, and the fields were of one uniform white; the appearance was disconsolate, and I found my feet chilled by the cold damp substance that covered the ground.
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