lake是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 湖泊, 湖水,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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Lake Thracymene, illumined by the evening sun, lay like flaming gold between the dark-blue mountain-ridges; here, where Hannibal defeated Flamin-ius, the rivers now held each other in their green embraces; lovely, half-naked children tended a herd of black swine, beneath a group of fragrant laurel-trees, hard by the road-side.
-- They danced hand in hand beside the calm lake in the clear moonshine.
-- In the middle of this lake sat the Snow Queen when she was at home; and then she said she was sitting in the Mirror of 120 Andersen's Fairy TalesUnderstanding, and that this was the only one and the best thing in the world.
-- The lake was not frozen sufficiently to bear her; neither was it open, nor low enough that she could wade through it; and across it she must go if she would find her child!Then she lay down to drink up the lake, and that was an impossibility for a human being, but the afflicted mother thought that a miracle might happen nevertheless.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On leaving Omaha, it passes along the left bank of the Platte River as far as the junction of its northern branch, follows its southern branch, crosses the Laramie territory and the Wahsatch Mountains, turns the Great Salt Lake, and reaches Salt Lake City, the Mormon capital, plunges into the Tuilla Valley, across the American Desert, Cedar and Humboldt Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and descends, via Sacramento, to the Pacific its grade, even on the Rocky Mountains, never exceeding one hundred and twelve feet to the mile.
-- Quite different from Lake Asphaltite, whose depression is twelve hundred feet below the sea, it contains considerable salt, and one quarter of the weight of its water is solid matter, its specific weight being 1,170, and, after being distilled, 1,000.
-- The country around the lake was well cultivated, for the Mormons are mostly farmers; while ranches and pens for domesticated animals, fields of wheat, corn, and other cereals, luxuriant prairies, hedges of wild rose, clumps of acacias and milk-wort, would have been seen six months later.
-- The train reached Ogden at two o'clock, where it rested for six hours, Mr. Fogg and his party had time to pay a visit to Salt Lake City, connected with Ogden by a branch road; and they spent two hours in this strikingly American town, built on the pattern of other cities of the Union, like a checker-board, "with the sombre sadness of right-angles," as Victor Hugo expresses it.
-- He felt decidedly repelled from such a vocation, and he imagined perhaps he was mistaken that the fair ones of Salt Lake City cast rather alarming glances on his person.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Round the walls ran select views of Pompeii, Venice, Lake Como, and Versailles.
-- To their wandering there was no barrier, neither lake nor mountain nor factory-bristling city, and the breeze about them was flowing sunshine.
-- Leora and he moved from the Tozers' to a cottage of their own, with a parlor-dining-room which displayed a nickeled stove on bright, new, pleasant-smelling linoleum, and a golden-oak sideboard with a souvenir match-holder from Lake Minnetonka.
-- Somewhere he would meet a company of worthies who would succor him with laughter and talk and many drinks--not too many drinks, of course--and motor very rapidly to Lake Minnetonka for a moonlight swim.
-- But these ambitions he forgot as he came to Terry's proud proprietary shanty, by a lake among oaks and maples, and heard Terry's real theories of the decomposition of quinine derivatives.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When I was about five years old, while making an excursion beyond the frontiers of Italy, they 27passed a week on the shores of the Lake of Como.
-- The blue lake and snow-clad mountains they never change; and I think our placid home and our contented hearts are regulated by the same immutable laws.
-- Your summits are clear; the sky and lake are blue and placid.
-- As I could not pass through the town, I was obliged to cross the lake in a boat to arrive at Plainpalais.
-- The most violent storm hung exactly north of the town, over the part of the lake which lies between the prom-ontory of Belrive and the village of Copet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At last, when we got to his place of business and he pulled out his key from his coat-collar, he looked as unconscious of his Walworth property as if the Castle and the drawbridge and the arbor and the lake and the fountain and the Aged, had all been blown into space together by the last discharge of the Stinger.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So they went on till they came to a great lake; and at the side of the lake there lay twelve little boats with twelve handsome princes in them, who seemed to be waiting there for the princesses.
-- On the other side of the lake stood a fine illuminated castle, from which came the merry music of horns and trumpets.
-- The princes rowed them back again over the lake (but this time the soldier placed himself in the boat with the eldest prin-cess); and on the opposite shore they took leave of each other, the princesses promising to come again the next night.
-- So on they went, and came to a lake where many many ducks were swimming about.
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