litter是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 杂乱物; 一胎生下的小动物; v. 使杂乱, 乱丢东西,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:
-- We will make a litter and carry you in turn."
-- The litter was made of boughs of eucalyptus covered with branches; and, whether he would or not, Mulrady was obliged to take his place on it.
-- Every ten minutes the litter changed bearers.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A litter of empty tins showed that the place had been occupied for some time, and I saw, as my eyes became accustomed to the checkered light, a pannikin and a half-full bottle of spirits standing in the corner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With an inconsistency as monstrous as anything in this awful nightmare, they had helped the healer, and tended the wounded man with the gentlest solicitude had made a litter for him and escorted him carefully from the spot had then caught up their weapons and plunged anew into a butchery so dreadful, that the Doctor had covered his eyes with his hands, and swooned away in the midst of it.
-- They raised the unconscious figure, placed it on a litter they had brought to the door, and bent to carry it away.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had no ropes, and could hit on nothing wherewith to make ropes; none of the abundant creepers seemed limber or strong enough, and with all my litter of scientific education I could not devise any way of making them so.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Chapter 4 Darya Alexandrovna, in a dressing jacket, and with her now scanty, once luxuriant and beautiful hair fastened up with hairpins on the nape of her neck, with a sunken, thin face and large, startled eyes, which looked prominent from the thinness of her face, was standing among a litter of all sorts of things scattered all over the room, before an open bureau, from which she was taking something.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The headlights made ridiculously important a barbed-wire fence, a litter of milkweeds, a bleak reach of gravel road.
-- The rest was emptiness, and a litter of rotted potatoes and scudding papers.
-- She stared at him; she shut the door; silently she straightened the litter of food, papers, and instruments on his table.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ham carrying me on his back and a small box of ours under hisarm, and Peggotty carrying another small box of ours, we turneddown lanes bestrewn with bits of chips and little hillocks of sand,and went past gas-works, rope-walks, boatbuilders' yards,shipwrights' yards, ship-breakers' yards, caulkers' yards, riggers'lofts, smiths' forges, and a great litter of such places, until we cameout upon the dull waste I had already seen at a distance; whenHam said'Yon's our house, Mas'r Davy!'
-- Scraps of old copy-books and exercises litter the dirty floor.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The train bearing the wounded had already come in and the litter bearers were working swiftly inthe hot sun, transferring wounded into ambulances and covered ordnance wagons.
-- Here and mere in the road and fields lay buckles and bits of harness leather, canteens flattened by hooves andcaisson wheels, buttons, blue caps, worn socks, bits of bloody rags, all the litter left by the marching army.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I wondered what was the history of all the odd litter about the room, and how it came there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the waste-yard outside, the steam from the escape pipe, the litter of barrels and old iron, the shining heaps of coals, the ashes everywhere, were shrouded in a veil of mist and rain.
-- 'We had our fears,' Sissy explained, glancing at Louisa, 'before yesterday; and when I saw you brought to the side of the litter last night, and heard what passed (being close to Rachael all the time), I went to him when no one saw, and said to him, "Don't look at me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The litter stopped under a lamp before it had passed him half-a-dozen paces, for some readjustment of the burden; and, the crowd stopping too, he found himself in the midst of the array.
-- They had rested the litter on a pile of paving stones.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This obliging offer was gladly accepted, and Marga-ret retired to the parlor, which she hastily put in order by whisking the litter under the sofa and shutting the blinds to save the trouble of dusting.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The harpoon, too! toss over the litter there, d'ye see it? the forged iron, men, the white whale's no, no, no, blistered fool!this hand did dart it! 'tis in the fish! Aloft there!Keep him nailed Quick! all hands to the rigging of the boats collect the oars harpooneers!the irons, the irons! hoist the royals higher a pull on all the sheets! helm there!steady, steady for your life!I'll ten times girdle the unmeasured globe; yea and dive straight through it, but I'll slay him yet!"
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And directly the crates were unpacked, the stranger went to the window and set to work, not troubling in the least about the litter of straw, the fire which had gone out, the box of books outside, nor for the trunks and other luggage that had gone upstairs.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You'd see a muddy sow and a litter of pigs come lazying along the street and whollop herself right down in the way, where folks had to walk around her, and she'd stretch out and shut her eyes and wave her ears whilst the pigs was milking her, and look as happy as if she was on sal-ary.
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