season是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 季, 季节, 时节,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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- May is the very month which Mrs. Churchill is ordered, or has ordered herself, to spend in some warmer place than Enscombe in short, to spend in London; so that we have the agreeable prospect of frequent visits from Frank the whole spring precisely the season of the year which one should have chosen for it: days almost at the longest; weather genial and pleasant, always inviting one out, and never too hot for exercise.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The myrtles, geraniums, and cactuses packed around her were fresh and green, and at such a leafless season they invested the whole concern of horses, waggon, furniture, and girl with a peculiar vernal charm.
-- Such shepherds' huts are dragged into the fields when the lambing season comes on, to shelter the shepherd in his enforced nightly attendance.
-- The first movement in his new progress was the lambing of his ewes, and sheep having been his speciality from his youth, he wisely refrained from deputing the task of tending them at this season to a hireling or a novice.
-- This climax of the series had been reached to-night on the aforesaid moor, and for the first time in the season its irregularities were forms without features; suggestive of anything, proclaiming nothing, and without more character than that of being the limit of something else the lowest layer of a firmament of snow.
-- The grass about the margin at this season was a sight to remember long in a minor sort of way.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The whole property brought in about three thousand francs; and though the amount varied with the season (as must always be the case in a vine-growing district), they were obliged to spare an unvarying twelve hundred francs out of their income for him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a divine spring, and the season contributed greatly to my convalescence.
-- Sever-al new kinds of plants sprang up in the garden, which they dressed; and these signs of comfort increased daily as the season advanced.
-- This frequently took place, but a high wind quickly dried the earth, and the season be-came far more pleasant than it had been.
-- The season of the assizes approached.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hoops in Paris were wider this season and skirts were shorter.
-- CHAPTER XV THE ARMY, driven back into Virginia, went into winter quarters on the Rapidan a tired, depleted army sincethe defeat at Gettysburg and as the Christmas season approached, Ashley came home on furlough.
-- His audience heard him with varying emotions, for all who sat there rocking quietly in the fading twilight,watching the first fireflies of the season moving magically through the dusk, had weighty matters on their minds.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All the fruits of the earth shall come to maturity at whatever season we think fit to choose, and increase a hundred fold more than 221they do at present; with innumerable other happy propos-als.
-- He told me, he did not doubt, that, in eight years more, he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine, at a reasonable rate: but he complained that his stock was low, and entreated me 'to give him something as an encouragement to ingenuity, especially since this had been a very dear season for cucum-224 Gulliver's Travelsbers.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What scenes and actors the stern woman most reviewed, as she sat from season to season in her one dark room, none knew but herself.
-- After this had lasted a while Clennam thought it a good season for diverting his attention from the main surprise, by relating its details.
-- 'Which is done in its regular season of the year, I think?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He is well, and thinks he shall get through the cold season better than we feared.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With a fair, fresh wind, the Pequod was now drawing nigh to these straits; Ahab purposing to pass through them into the Javan sea, and thence, cruising northwards, over waters known to be frequented here and there by the Sperm Whale, sweep inshore by the Philippine Islands, and gain the far coast of Japan, in time for the great whaling season there.
-- By these means, the circumnavigating Pequod would sweep almost all the known Sperm Whale cruising grounds of the world, previous to descending upon the Line in the Pacific; where Ahab, though everywhere else foiled in his pursuit, firmly counted upon giving battle to Moby Dick, in the sea he was most known to frequent; and at a season when he might most reasonably be presumed to be haunting it.
-- By the time they have lounged up and down the promenade of the Equator awhile, they start for the Oriental waters in anticipation of the cool season there, and so evade the other excessive temperature of the year.
-- Because those whalemen did not then, and do not now, try out their oil at sea as the Southern ships have always done; but cutting up the fresh blubber in small bits, thrust it through the bung holes of large casks, and carry it home in that manner; the shortness of the season in those Icy Seas, and the sudden and violent storms to which they are exposed, forbidding any other course.
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