excursion是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 远足, 短途旅行，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an excursion of some miles across the moor to a place which is so dismal that it might have suggested the story.
-- Such an excursion could not be kept secret.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Crunch-er beguiled the earlier watches of the night with solitary pipes, and did not start upon his excursion until nearly one o'clock.
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：
-- Nobody could be more steady or quiet than this young man; we therefore wish him joy of the excursion with all our heart; and it will certainly be beneficial for a person who leads so sedentary a life.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No, it's a useless journey you're making," she said, mentally addressing a party in a coach and four, evidently going for an excursion into the country.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The game constituted the only dish at supper; the meat was excellent, and Pencroft and Herbert, whose long excursion had rendered them very hungry, devoured it with infinite satisfaction.
-- No incident disturbed this peaceful night, and the next day, the 29th of March, fresh and active they awoke, ready to undertake the excursion which must determine their fate.
-- "We will not ask more from it," replied the sailor, During this excursion they saw several wild boars, which however, did not offer to attack the little band, and it appeared as if they would not meet with any dangerous beasts; when, in a thick part of the wood, the reporter thought he saw, some paces from him, among the lower branches of a tree, an animal which he took for a bear, and which he very tranquilly began to draw.
-- They reserved this important excursion for the first fine days of the next spring.
-- However, Cyrus Harding did not remember having seen, at the time of his excursion to the crater, any other watercourses but the Red Creek and the Mercy.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he described Maslova's unfortunate life, telling how she had been drawn into a life of vice by a man who went unpunished, while she was left to bear the whole burden of her fall, he attempted to become eloquent, but his excursion into the domain of psychology failed, so that everybody felt awkward.
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.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, after about four hours, this marvellous excursion came to an end.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our excursion through this wondrous coal mine in the very bowels of the earth lasted until evening.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But her love was somehow only an excursion from her marriage with Clifford; the long, slow habit of intimacy, formed through years of suffering and patience.
-- But the point of an excursion is that you come home again.
-- When Connie saw the great lorries full of steel-workers from Sheffield, weird, distorted smallish beings like men, off for an excursion to Matlock, her bowels fainted and she thought: Ah God, what has man done to man?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When we were in Switzerland, which appears to have been years ago, though it was only weeks, I met young Mrs Gowan, who was on a mountain excursion like ourselves.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This indeed was, as I said, an excursion of his spirits, which were yet agitated by the sense of his loss, and was farther than he could have authority to go.
-- But now, when, as I have said, I began to be weary of the fruitless excursion which I had made so long and so far every morning in vain, so my opinion of the action itself be-gan to alter; and I began, with cooler and calmer thoughts, to consider what I was going to engage in; what authority or call I had to pretend to be judge and executioner upon these men as criminals, whom Heaven had thought fit for so many ages to suffer unpunished to go on, and to be as it were the executioners of His judgments one upon another; how far these people were offenders against me, and what right I had to engage in the quarrel of that blood which they shed promiscuously upon one another.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 13Their intended excursion to Whitwell turned out very different from what Elinor had expected.
-- In a morning's excursion to Exeter, they had met with two young ladies, whom Mrs. Jennings had the satisfaction of discovering to be her relations, and this was enough for Sir John to invite them directly to the park, as soon as their present engagements at Exeter were over.
-- On being informed of the invitation, Mrs. Dashwood, persuaded that such an excursion would be productive of much amusement to both her daughters, and perceiving through all her affectionate attention to herself, how much the heart of Marianne was in it, would not hear of their declining the offer upon HER account; insisted on their both accepting it directly; and then began to foresee, with her usual cheerfulness, a variety of advantages that would accrue to them all, from this separation.
-- She returned just in time to join the others as they quitted the house, on an excursion through its more immediate premises; and the rest of the morning was easily whiled away, in lounging round the kitchen garden, examining the bloom upon its walls, and listening to the gardener's lamentations upon blights, in dawdling through the green-house, where the loss of her favourite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of Charlotte, and in visiting her poultry-yard, where, in the disappointed hopes of her dairy-maid, by hens forsaking their nests, or being stolen by a fox, or in the rapid decrease of a promising young brood, she found fresh sources of merriment.
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