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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no play nor graceful movement of his sceptre; he kept it straight and stiff like a man unpractised in oratory one might have taken him for a mere churl or simpleton; but when he raised his voice, and the words came driving from his deep chest like winter snow before the wind, then there was none to touch him, and no man thought further of what he looked like.'
-- As when fair Juno's lord flashes his lightning in token of great rain or hail or snow when the snow-flakes whiten the ground, or again as a sign that he will open the wide jaws of hungry war, even so did Agamemnon heave many a heavy sigh, for his soul trembled within him.
-- His horses are the finest and strongest that I have ever seen, they are whiter than snow and fleeter than any wind that blows.
-- The stones fell thick as the flakes of snow which some fierce blast drives from the dark clouds and showers down in sheets upon the earth even so fell the weapons from the hands alike of Trojans and Achaeans.
-- As the flakes that fall thick upon a winter's day, when Jove is minded to snow and to display these his arrows to mankind he lulls the wind to rest, and snows hour after hour till he has buried the tops of the high moun-tains, the headlands that jut into the sea, the grassy plains, and the tilled fields of men; the snow lies deep upon the forelands, and havens of the grey sea, but the waves as they come rolling in stay it that it can come no further, though all else is wrapped as with a mantle, so heavy are the heav-ens with snow even thus thickly did the stones fall on one side and on the other, some thrown at the Trojans, and some by the Trojans at the Achaeans; and the whole wall was in an uproar.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white crest to the burden he carried.
-- He stamped and shook the snow from off himself in the bar, and followed Mrs. Hall into her guest parlour to strike his bargain.
-- Although the fire was burning up briskly, she was surprised to see that her visitor still wore his hat and coat, standing with his back to her and staring out of the window at the falling snow in the yard.
-- She noticed that the melting snow that still sprinkled his shoulders dripped upon her carpet.
-- The snow outside was falling faster.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stream here made a bend towards the south, but this detour was probab ly not prolonged for the river must have its source in the mountain, and be supplied by the melting of the snow which covered the sides of the central cone.
-- But as Greece and Sic ily have severe cold, producing snow and ice, so doubtless would Lincoln Island in the severest part of the winter.
-- "Doubtless," replied the engineer, "but some winters in Spain are very cold!No want of snow and ice; and perhaps Lincoln Island is just as rigourously tried.
-- The snow fell abundantly for several days, and it soon reached a thickness of two feet.
-- In some places, the wind, eddying round the corners, formed the snow into tall whirling columns, resembling those waterspouts which turn round on their base, and which vessels attack with a shot from a gun.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was he who had come to the window overnight and spoken to the sexton, and they saw in the snow traces of small feet, where he had been lingering near the room in which she lay, before he went to bed.
-- Along the crowded path they bore her now; pure as the newly-fallen snow that covered it; whose day on earth had been as fleeting.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he thought, as he drove into the familiar court-yard of the old manor, which was covered with snow that fell from the roofs, and was surrounded by a low brick wall.
-- There was no wagon or sleigh road to the church, so Nekhludoff gave command, as he would in his own house, to have a horse saddled, and, instead of going to bed, donned a brilliant uniform and tight knee-breeches, threw on his military coat, and, mounting the snorting and constantly neighing, heavy stallion, he drove off to the church in the dark, over pools and snow mounds.
-- Snow and rain fell alternately between cold blasts of wind.
-- The sombre looking prison, the soldier on guard, the lantern behind the gate, notwithstanding the pure white layer of snow which had covered everything--the sidewalk, the roof and the walls-- made a gloomy impression.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently I noted that the sun belt swayed up and down, from solstice to solstice, in a minute or less, and that consequently my pace was over a year a minute; and minute by minute the white snow flashed across the world, and vanished, and was followed by the bright, brief green of spring.
-- To the north-eastward, the glare of snow lay under the starlight of the sable sky, and I could see an undulating crest of hillocks pinkish white.
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：
-- 'Do you hear the snow against the window-panes, Kitty?
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