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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His companions followed exactly in his footprints, lowering their voices to a whisper, as the least sound would disturb the currents of air, and might cause the fall of the masses of snow suspended in the air seven or eight hundred feet above their heads.
-- At this elevation rain is unknown, and vapors only condense into snow or hail.
-- But just as exhaustion was about to make short work of any further ascent, and Glenarvan's heart began to sink as he thought of the snow lying far as the eye could reach, and of the intense cold, and saw the shadow of night fast overspreading the desolate peaks, and knew they had not a roof to shelter them, suddenly the Major stopped and said, in a calm voice, "A hut!"
-- He shook off the blinding snow and looked around him.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, with his ivory leg inserted into its accustomed hole, and with one hand firmly grasping a shroud, Ahab for hours and hours would stand gazing dead to windward, while an occasional squall of sleet or snow would all but congeal his very eyelashes together.
-- Even Scoresby, the justly renowned Right whaleman, after giving us a stiff full length of the Greenland whale, and three or four delicate miniatures of narwhales and porpoises, treats us to a series of classical engravings of boat hooks, chopping knives, and grapnels; and with the microscopic diligence of a Leuwenhoeck submits to the inspection of a shivering world ninety-six fac-similes of magnified Arctic snow crystals.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'd walk round and round the place till I dropped, if the snow was on the ground, and I hadn't a shawl to cover me.'
-- The snow lay on the ground, frozen into a hard thick crust, so that only the heaps that had drifted into byways and corners were affected by the sharp wind that howled abroad: which, as if expending increased fury on such prey as it found, caught it savagely up in clouds, and, whirling it into a thousand misty eddies, scattered it in air.
-- 'At your service, ma'am,' said Mr. Bumble, who had been stopping outside to rub his shoes clean, and to shake the snow off his coat; and who now made his appearanc e, bearing the cocked hat in one hand and a bundle in the other.
-- Avoiding, as much as was possible, all the main streets, and skulking only through the by-ways and alleys, he at length emerged on Snow Hill.
-- Near to the spot on which Snow Hill and Holborn Hill meet, opens, upon the right hand as you come out of the City, a narrow and dismal alley, leading to Saffron Hill.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When we came to Madrid, we, being all of us strangers to Spain, were willing to stay some time to see the court of Spain, and what was worth observing; but it being the lat-ter part of the summer, we hastened away, and set out from Madrid about the middle of October; but when we came to the edge of Navarre, we were alarmed, at several towns on the way, with an account that so much snow was falling on the French side of the mountains, that several travellers were obliged to come back to Pampeluna, after having at-tempted at an extreme hazard to pass on.
-- To mend the matter, when we came to Pampeluna it continued snow-ing with so much violence and so long, that the people said winter was come before its time; and the roads, which were difficult before, were now quite impassable; for, in a word, the snow lay in some places too thick for us to travel, and being not hard frozen, as is the case in the northern coun-tries, there was no going without being in danger of being buried alive every step.
-- But, while I was considering this, there came in four French gentlemen, who, having been stopped on the French side of the passes, as we were on the Spanish, had found out a guide, who, traversing the country near the head of Languedoc, had brought them over the mountains by such ways that they were not much incommoded with the snow; for where they met with snow in any quantity, they said it was frozen hard enough to bear them and their horses.
-- Accordingly, we set out from Pampeluna with our guide on the 15th of November; and indeed I was surprised when, instead of going forward, he came directly back with us on the same road that we came from Madrid, about twen-ty miles; when, having passed two rivers, and come into the plain country, we found ourselves in a warm climate again, where the country was pleasant, and no snow to be seen; but, on a sudden, turning to his left, he approached the mountains another way; and though it is true the hills and precipices looked dreadful, yet he made so many tours, such meanders, and led us by such winding ways, that we insensibly passed the height of the mountains without being much encumbered with the snow; and all on a sudden he showed us the pleasant and fruitful provinces of Languedoc and Gascony, all green and flourishing, though at a great distance, and we had some rough way to pass still.
-- We heard the ravenous crea-tures howl and yell in the woods as we went several times, and sometimes we fancied we saw some of them; but the snow dazzling our eyes, we were not certain.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here was another item detailing the wrecking of a vessel in ice and snow off Prince's Bay on Staten Island.
-- The snow began to fall late one afternoon.
-- The day was raw, with a sprinkling of snow and a gusty wind, made all the more intolerable by the speed of the car.
-- A heavy snow was falling--a fine picking, whipping snow, borne forward by a swift wind in long, thin lines.
-- In the lobby of the Imperial, Mr. Charles Drouet was just arriving, shaking the snow from a very handsome ulster.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an inch of new snow on the ground, and I seen somebody's tracks.
-- They peddle out such a fish as that by the pound in the market- house there; everybody buys some of him; his meat's as white as snow and makes a good fry.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suddenly he saw a little cottage gleaming white as the snow among the trees of the forest.
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