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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was the rainy season, "le tempo das aguas," as the Spanish call it, a trying season to travelers, but useful to the inhabitants of the African Islands, who lack trees and consequently water.
-- Fortunately the weather was calm and the sky clear, in addition to the season being favorable, but in Winter, from May to October, such an ascent would have been impracticable.
-- The hottest season of the year had already commenced, and the sun's rays were almost tropical, when Lord Glenarvan started on his new expedition.
-- It gives the cutaneous system an increased thickness, enabling it to resist the inclemency of the season and the incessant attacks of the mosquito.
-- "We had built a log hut with the DEBRIS of the BRITANNIA, and this was covered over with sail cloth, carefully tarred over, and beneath this secure shelter the rainy season passed comfortably.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There came a season of thunder-storms and heavy rain, which greatly retarded my work; but at last the raft was completed.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The men ought to skin two hundred to-day, but it's the beginning of the season and they are new to the work.
-- Petersen Sahib came in on his clever she-elephant Pud-mini; he had been paying off other camps among the hills, for the season was coming to an end, and there was a native clerk sitting at a table under a tree, to pay the drivers their wages.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It tasted something as I should conceive a royal cutlet from the thigh of Louis le Gros might have tasted, supposing him to have been killed the first day after the venison season, and that particular venison season contemporary with an unusually fine vintage of the vineyards of Champagne.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a nice sickly season just at this time.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I sincerely hope your Christmas in Hertfordshire may abound in the gaieties which that season generally brings, and that your beaux will be so numerous as to prevent your feeling the loss of the three of whom we shall deprive you.'
-- Elizabeth did all she could to shield him from the frequent notice of either, and was ever anxious to keep him to herself, and to those of her family with whom he might converse without mortification; and though the uncomfortable feelings arising from all this took from the season of courtship much of its pleasure, it added to the hope of the future; and she looked forward with delight to the time when they should be removed from society so little pleasing to either, to all the comfort and el-egance of their family party at Pemberley.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As for my lodging, I kept to the tent; except that sometimes, in the wet season of the year, it rained so hard that I could not keep myself dry, which caused me afterwards to cover all my place within my pale with long poles, in the form of rafters, leaning against the rock, and load them with flags and large leaves of trees, like a thatch.
-- But it was not till the fourth year that I could allow myself the least grain of this corn to eat, and even then but sparingly, as I shall say afterwards, in its order; for I lost all that I sowed the first season by not observing the prop-er time; for I sowed it just before the dry season, so that it never came up at all, at least not as it would have done; of which in its place.
-- I learned from it also this, in particular, that being abroad in the rainy season was the most pernicious thing to my health that could be, especially in those rains which came attended with storms and hurricanes of wind; for as the rain which came in the dry season was almost al-ways accompanied with such storms, so I found that rain was much more dangerous than the rain which fell in Sep-tember and October.
-- In this season I was much surprised with the increase of my family; I had been concerned for the loss of one of my cats, who ran away from me, or, as I thought, had been dead, and I heard no more tidings of her till, to my astonishment, she came home about the end of August with three kittens.
-- The rainy season and the dry season began now to appear regular to me, and I learned to divide them so as to provide for them accordingly; but I bought all my experience before I had it, and this I am going to relate was one of the most discouraging experiments that I made.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was very early in September; the season was fine, and from first seeing the place under the advantage of good weather, they received an impression in its favour which was of material service in recommending it to their lasting approbation.
-- This was the season of happiness to Marianne.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When the winter season had passed and the first fine days of the early spring appeared, Mrs. Hale secured a buggy for an afternoon and invited Carrie.
-- "George," said Mrs. Hurstwood, in that tone of voice which had long since come to be associated in his mind with demands, "we want you to get us a season ticket to the races."
-- Mrs. Hurstwood had never asked for a whole season ticket before, but this year certain considerations decided her to get a box.
-- "I'm merely asking you for a season ticket."
-- "A season family ticket costs one hundred and fifty dollars."
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