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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was quite willing to start at daybreak, however, for they had to get to Lake Salinas before sundown.
-- At eight o'clock in the evening, Thalcave, who was considerably in advance of the rest, descried in the distance the much-desired lake, and in less than a quarter of an hour they reached its banks; but a grievous disappointment awaited them—the lake was dried up.
-- But when Thalcave spoke of the lake as supplying drinkable water he was thinking of the RIOS of fresh water which run into it.
-- Those of us whose horses are so done out with fatigue and thirst that they can scarcely drag one leg after the other, are to continue the route as they best can, while the others, whose steeds are fresher, are to push on in advance toward the river Guamini, which throws itself into Lake San Lucas about thirty-one miles off.
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:
-- 'My word, it does not seem a very cheerful place,' said the detective with a shiver, glancing round him at the gloomy slopes of the hill and at the huge lake of fog which lay over the Grimpen Mire.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They were valiant Teuthras, and Orestes the renowned charioteer, Trechus the Aetolian warrior, Oenomaus, Helenus the son of Oenops, and Oresbius of the gleaming girdle, who was possessed of great wealth, and dwelt by the Cephisian lake with the other Boeotians who lived near him, owners of a fertile country.
-- Achilles struck him full on the head as he was coming on to-wards him, and split it clean in two; whereon he fell heavily to the ground and Achilles vaunted over him saying, 'You be low, son of Otrynteus, mighty hero; your death is here, but your lineage is on the Gygaean lake where your father's estate lies, by Hyllus, rich in fish, and the eddying waters of Hermus.'
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:
-- While writing this book, fully a quarter of a century since, it occurred to us that the French name of this lake was too complicated, the American too common-place, and the Indian too unpronounceable, for either to be used familiarly in a work of fiction.
-- Near its southern termina-tion, it received the contributions of another lake, whose waters were so limpid as to have been exclusively selected by the Jesuit missionaries to perform the typical purifica-tion of baptism, and to obtain for it the title of lake 'du Saint Sacrement.'
-- Lake George, as it is vulgarly, and now, indeed, legally, called, forms a sort of tail to Lake Champlain, when viewed on the map.
-- The salt lake gave us its fish, the wood its deer, and the air its birds.
-- 'I have heard a party was to leave the encampment this morning for the lake shore?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Seen from this height, the lake appeared to be on the same level as the ocean, but, on reflection, the engineer explained to his companions that the altitude of this little sheet of water must be about three hundred feet, because the plateau, which was its basin, was but a prolongation of the coast.
-- We might give to that vast bay on the east the name of Union Bay, for example; to that large hollow on the south, Washington Bay; to the mountain upon which we are standing, that of Mount Franklin; to that lake which is extended under our eyes, that of Lake Grant; nothing could be better, my friends.
-- He wished to reconnoiter Lake Grant, so magnificently framed in trees.
-- They therefore followed the crest of one of the spurs, between which the creek that supplied the lake probably had its source.
-- Herbert and Pencroft the one young and the other very boyish were enchanted, and while walking, the sailor said, "Hey, Herbert!how capital it sounds!It will be impossible to lose ourselves, my boy, since, whether we follow the way to Lake Grant, or whether we join the Mercy through the woods of the Far West, we shall be certain to arrive at Prospect Heights, and, consequently, at Union Bay!"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was an oyster of extraordinary dimensions, a gigantic tridacne, a goblet which could have contained a whole lake of holy-water, a basin the breadth of which was more than two yards and a half, and consequently larger than that ornamenting the saloon of the Nautilus.
-- The lake, then, supporting it was a lake imprisoned by a circle of walls, measuring two miles in diameter and six in circumference.
-- Its level (the manometer showed) could only be the same as the outside level, for there must necessarily be a communication between the lake and the sea.
-- Between the walls of the mountains and the waters of the lake lay a sandy shore which, at its greatest breadth, measured five hundred feet.
-- At every turn of the path we were following, the lake appeared in all its length and breadth.
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:
-- It was a long, low old house, a sort of manor farm, that spread along the top of a slope just beyond the narrow little lake of Willey Water.
-- When the sisters came to Willey Water, the lake lay all grey and visionary, stretching into the moist, translucent vista of trees and meadow.
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