tree是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 树, 树状物vi. 爬上树,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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Some-times Bagheera the Black Panther would come lounging through the jungle to see how his pet was getting on, and would purr with his head against a tree while Mowgli re-cited the day's lesson to Baloo.
-- He is no tree trunk to sharpen thy blunt claws upon.
-- 'My head is ringing like a bee tree,' said a sullen little voice over their heads, and Mowgli slid down a tree trunk very angry and indignant, adding as he reached the ground: 'I come for Bagheera and not for thee, fat old Baloo!'
-- His escort would rush him up a tree till he felt the thin-nest topmost branches crackle and bend under them, and then with a cough and a whoop would fling themselves into the air outward and downward, and bring up, hanging by their hands or their feet to the lower limbs of the next tree.
-- The waves of the branches closed over the boy, but Chil balanced away to the next tree in time to see the little brown face come up again.
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:
-- said the scout, shaking his head doubtingly; 'When the sun is scorching the tree tops, and the water courses are full; when the moss on every beech he sees will tell him in what quarter the north star will shine at night.
-- All beneath the fantastic limbs and ragged tree tops, which were, here and there, dimly painted against the starry zenith, lay alike in shadowed obscurity.
-- 'These devils will scale heaven to circumvent us to our ruin,' said Hawkeye; 'keep him in play, boy, until I can bring 'killdeer' to bear, when we will try his metal on each side of the tree at once.'
-- The leaves were unusu-ally agitated; the dangerous rifle fell from its commanding elevation, and after a few moments of vain struggling, the form of the savage was seen swinging in the wind, while he still grasped a ragged and naked branch of the tree with hands clenched in desperation.
-- The axe cleaved the air in front of Heyward, and cutting some of the flowing ringlets of Alice, quivered in the tree above her head.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then, as he wended his way by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farm-house where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagina-tion, the moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside, the boding cry of the tree toad, that harbinger of storm, the dreary hooting of the screech owl, to the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost.
-- A great elm tree spread its broad branches over it, at the foot of which bubbled up a spring of the softest and sweet-est water, in a little well formed of a barrel; and then stole sparkling away through the grass, to a neighboring brook, that babbled along among alders and dwarf willows.
-- In the fullness of their revelry, they fluttered, chirping and frolicking from bush to bush, and tree to tree, capricious from the very profusion and variety around them.
-- Many dismal tales were told about funeral trains, and mourning cries and wailings heard and seen about the great tree where the unfortunate Major Andre was taken, and which stood in the neighborhood.
-- As he ap-proached a little nearer, he thought he saw something white, hanging in the midst of the tree: he paused, and ceased whistling but, on looking more narrowly, perceived that it was a place where the tree had been scathed by lightning, and the white wood laid bare.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a tree just behind which bore alligator pears, and all about were the cocoa-nuts which gave the land its revenue.
-- If thou leavest me I shall hang myself on the tree that is behind the house.
-- All that was healthy and natural, all that clung to happy relationships and the simple joys of simple men, shrunk from them in dismay; and yet a fearful attraction was in them, and, like the fruit on the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil they were terrible with the possibilities of the Unknown.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On the upper plateau of the coast not a tree appeared.
-- Arrived at the forest, Pencroft broke from the first tree two stout branches which he transformed into clubs, the ends of which Herbert rubbed smooth on a rock.
-- The exploration, therefore, continued, and was usefully marked by a discovery which Herbert made of a tree whose fruit was edible.
-- Their insufficiency was still more clearly shown when a troop of quadrupeds, jumping, bounding, making leaps of thirty feet, regular flying mammiferae, fled over the thickets, so quickly and at such a height, that one would have thought that they passed from one tree to another like squirrels.
-- Perhaps in time the settlers could replace this want by some equivalent, it was possible that they might find the sago or the breadfruit tree among the forests of the south, but they had not as yet met with these precious trees.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Fearful of taking shelter beneath a tree or hedge, the old man and the child hurried along the high road, hoping to find some house in which they could seek a refuge from the storm, which had now burst forth in earnest, and every moment increased in violence.
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