tide是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 潮汐; (舆论, 公众情绪) 潮流趋势，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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tide began to recede, being quite full.
-- "Well, friend Ned, we will wait patiently for the tide on the 9th instant; for it appears that the moon will have the goodness to put it off again."
-- "And this Captain is not going to cast anchor at all since the tide will suffice?"
-- We knew that at the tide the pent-up waters between the islands of Ferroe and Loffoden rush with irresistible violence, forming a whirlpool from which no vessel ever escapes.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was busy, the end of the day was here, the work went on as a peaceful tide that is at flood, hushed to retire.
-- One was a tiny little rock with the tide of nothingness rising higher and higher She herself was real, and only herself just like a rock in a wash of flood-water.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- See, the tide is going down over the sand.
-- They both walked to the foot of the enormous wall over the beach, far from which the tide had now retreated; but instead of going towards the north, they went southward.
-- The rising tide and it could already be perceived must drive it back with force to a considerable distance.
-- "Only," observed Herbert, "at this moment our road is going the wrong way, for the tide is rising!"
-- There the shore was low, flat, without cliffs, and with great banks of sand, which the tide left uncovered.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither did the place present any extraordinary aspect of life or activity, as its only human occupant was an amphibious boy in a canvas suit, whose sole change of occupation was from sitting on the head of a pile and throwing stones into the mud when the tide was out, to standing with his hands in his pockets gazing listlessly on the motion and on the bustle of the river at high-water.
-- It was flood tide when Daniel Quilp sat himself down in the ferry to cross to the opposite shore.
-- Having by this means composed his spirits and put himself in a pleasant train, he returned to his unsuspicious companion, whom he found looking at the tide with exceeding gravity, and thinking of that same gold and silver which Mr Quilp had mentioned.
-- CHAPTER 44The throng of people hurried by, in two opposite streams, with no symptom of cessation or exhaustion; intent upon their own affairs; and undisturbed in their business speculations, by the roar of carts and waggons laden with clashing wares, the slipping of horses' feet upon the wet and greasy pavement, the rattling of the rain on windows and umbrella-tops, the jostling of the more impatient passengers, and all the noise and tumult of a crowded street in the high tide of its occupation: while the two poor strangers, stunned and bewildered by the hurry they beheld but had no part in, looked mournfully on; feeling, amidst the crowd, a solitude which has no parallel but in the thirst of the shipwrecked mariner, who, tost to and fro upon the billows of a mighty ocean, his red eyes blinded by looking on the water which hems him in on every side, has not one drop to cool his burning tongue.
-- I don't believe he'd mind throttling me, and dropping me softly into the river when the tide was at its strongest, any more than he'd mind killing a rat indeed I don't know whether he wouldn't consider it a pleasant joke.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By this time the tide was beginning to ebb, and the ship was swinging round to her anchor.
-- "The tide keeps washing her down.
-- I tried and found by experiment that the tide kept sweeping us westward until I had laid her head due east, or just about right angles to the way we ought to go.
-- By good fortune, paddle as I pleased, the tide was still sweeping me down; and there lay the Hispaniola right in the fairway, hardly to be missed.
-- North of Haulbowline Head, the land runs in a long way, leaving at low tide a long stretch of yellow sand.
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