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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There were no women or children, as she had seen in other gipsy camps they had passed in their wayfaring, and but one gipsy a tall athletic man, who stood with his arms folded, leaning against a tree at a little distance off, looking now at the fire, and now, under his black eyelashes, at three other men who were there, with a watchful but half-concealed interest in their conversation.
-- For say that I planted such a tree for such a man.
-- 'Twas ever thus from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay, I never loved a tree or flower but 'twas the first to fade away; I never nursed a dear Gazelle, to glad me with its soft black eye, but when it came to know me well, and love me, it was sure to marry a market-gardener.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- From every hill I climbed I saw the same abundance of splendid buildings, endlessly varied in material and style, the same clustering thickets of evergreens, the same blossom-laden trees and tree ferns.
-- "Stepping out from behind my tree and looking back, I saw, through the black pillars of the nearer trees, the flames of the burning forest.
-- The hissing and crackling behind me, the explosive thud as each fresh tree burst into flame, left little time for reflection.
-- But, at last, above the subsiding red of the fire, above the streaming masses of black smoke and the whitening and blackening tree stumps, and the diminishing numbers of these dim creatures, came the white light of the day.
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:
-- 'There's the tree in the middle,' said the Rose: 'what else is it good for?'
-- 'Why, I do believe we've been under this tree the whole time!Everything's just as it was!'
-- This seemed quite natural (she remembered afterwards), and she was not even surprised to hear music playing: it seemed to come from the tree under which they were dancing, and it was done (as well as she could make it out) by the branches rubbing one across the other, like fiddles and fiddle-sticks.
-- 'I don't suppose,' he said, 'there'll be a tree left standing, for ever so far round, by the time we've finished!'
-- So she went on, wondering more and more at every step, as everything turned into a tree the moment she came up to it, and she quite expected the egg to do the same.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A peculiar stagnant smell hung over the anchorage a smell of sodden leaves and rotting tree trunks.
-- He was concealed by this time behind another tree trunk; but he must have been watching me closely, for as soon as I began to move in his direction he reappeared and took a step to meet me.
-- What with the steepness of the incline, the thick tree stumps, and the soft sand, he and his crutch were as helpless as a ship in stays.
-- A tall tree was thus the principal mark.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I went along, climbing the rocks, striding over extended trunks, breaking the sea bind-weed which hung from one tree to the other; and frightening the fishes, which flew from branch to branch.
-- Now I jumped a crevice, the depth of which would have made me hesitate had it been among the glaciers on the land; now I ventured on the unsteady trunk of a tree thrown across from one abyss to the other, without looking under my feet, having only eyes to admire the wild sites of this region.
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:
-- Sometimes she beat her wings like a new Daphne, turning not into a tree but a machine.
-- Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe.
-- Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.
-- The real tree of life would then be rid of the most ghastly, heavy crop of Dead Sea Fruit, the intolerable burden of myriad simulacra of people, an infinite weight of mortal lies."
-- There was a little pleasure-launch on Willey Water and several rowing boats, and guests could take tea either in the marquee that was set up in the grounds of the house, or they could picnic in the shade of the great walnut tree at the boat-house by the lake.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Merely the branch of a fir tree that touched my lattice as the blast wailed by, and rattled its dry cones against the panes!I listened doubtingly an instant; detected the disturber, then turned and dozed, and dreamt again: if possible, still more disagreeably than before.
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