cave是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 洞, 穴,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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A sulphurous smell filled the air; then all was silent, and black as a cave in Hinnom.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We visited the wondrous cave and the little cabi-nets of natural history, where the curiosities are disposed in the same manner as in the collections at Servox and Cham-ounix.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a scuffle of feet and a dark figure emerged from the cave of the front hall.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The horse did as he was told, and the fox went straight to the lion who lived in a cave close by, and said to him, 'A little way off lies a dead horse; come with me and you may make an excellent meal of his carcase.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I lay all night in the cave where I had lodged my provisions.
-- In this cave are twenty lamps continually burning, which, from the re-flection of the adamant, cast a strong light into every part.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had often heard of the Giant's Causeway in Ireland, and of Fingal's Cave in one of the Hebrides, but the grand spectacle of a real basaltic formation had never yet come before my eyes.
-- The great grotto of Guachara, in Colombia, visited by the learned Humboldt; the vast and partially explored Mammoth Cave in Kentucky--what were these holes in the earth to that in which I stood in speechless admiration!with its vapory clouds, its electric light, and the mighty ocean slumbering in its bosom!Imagination, not description, can alone give an idea of the splendor and vastness of the cave.
-- About ten o'clock in the morning, the symptoms of the storm became more thorough and decisive; the wind appeared to soften down as if to take breath for a renewed attack; the vast funereal pall above us looked like a huge bag--like the cave of AEolus, in which the storm was collecting its forces for the attack.
-- The mouth of the cave was guarded by one ferocious monster, the interior was inhabited by something too hideous to contemplate.
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:
-- That was the death of all desire, the death of all love: this despair that was like the dark cave inside the men, in which their spirit was lost.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'A gloomy wood,' according to the one playbill, was rep-resented by a few shrubs in pots, green baize on the floor, and a cave in the distance.
-- This cave was made with a clothes horse for a roof, bureaus for walls, and in it was a small fur-nace in full blast, with a black pot on it and an old witch bending over it.
-- A soft strain of music sounded, and then at the back of the cave appeared a little figure in cloudy white, with glit-tering wings, golden hair, and a garland of roses on its head.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As well might those tablets stand in the cave of Elephanta as here.
-- Besides, argued I, fasting makes the body cave in; hence the spirit caves in; and all thoughts born of a fast must necessarily be half-starved.
-- Let us now with whatever levers and steam-engines we have at hand, cant over the sperm whale's head, that it may lie bottom up; then, ascending by a ladder to the summit, have a peep down the mouth; and were it not that the body is now completely separated from it, with a lantern we might descend into the great Kentucky Mammoth Cave of his stomach.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My thoughts were now wholly employed about securing myself against either savages, if any should appear, or wild beasts, if any were in the island; and I had many thoughts of the method how to do this, and what kind of dwelling to make - whether I should make me a cave in the earth, or a tent upon the earth; and, in short, I resolved upon both; the manner and description of which, it may not be improper to give an account of.
-- On the one side of the rock there was a hollow place, worn a little way in, like the en-trance or door of a cave but there was not really any cave or way into the rock at all.
-- I have already observed how I brought all my goods into this pale, and into the cave which I had made behind me.
-- I knocked pieces into the wall of the rock to hang my guns and all things that would hang up; so that, had my cave been to be seen, it looked like a general magazine of all necessary things; and had everything so ready at my hand, that it was a great pleasure to me to see all my goods in such order, and especially to find my stock of all necessaries so great.
-- - During all this time I worked to make this room or cave spacious enough to accommodate me as a ware-house or magazine, a kitchen, a dining-room, and a cellar.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The one hundred and fifty!the one hundred and fifty!What a door to an Aladdin's cave it seemed to be.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We went about two hundred yards, and then the cave opened up.
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