highland是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 高地， 高原，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 tall in person, and had rather stern features; but there was an exceeding sweetness in his look, and a stamp of Highland poetry about his whole bearing.
-- This was the reason he would never serve in England, and he gained his rank of Major in the 42nd regiment, the Highland Black Watch, composed entirely of Scotch noblemen.
-- The substantial dishes were reserved for the night-comers, and the three hunters contented themselves with devouring the partridges, and washed down their meal with clear, fresh water, which was pronounced superior to all the porter in the world, even to the famous Highland USQUEBAUGH, or whisky.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The public costume of the young people was of the Highland kind, but the night being damp and cold, the young gentleman wore over his kilt a man's pea jacket reaching to his ankles, and a glazed hat; the young lady too was muffled in an old cloth pelisse and had a handkerchief tied about her head.
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：
-- On the left stood a little cluster of Highland cattle, vividly coloured and fleecy in the evening light, their horns branching into the sky, pushing forward their muzzles inquisitively, to know what it was all about.
-- I merely said to her, that it was dangerous to drive those Highland bullocks as it is.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prudent Mrs Chivery, who wondered greatly at this change, would have protested against it as detrimental to the Highland typification on the doorpost but for two forcible reasons; one, that her John was roused to take strong interest in the business which these starts were supposed to advance and this she held to be good for his drooping spirits; the other, that Mr Pancks confidentially agreed to pay her, for the occupation of her son's time, at the handsome rate of seven and sixpence per day.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ahab's full lunacy subsided not, but deepeningly contracted; like the unabated Hudson, when that noble Northman flows narrowly, but unfathomably through the Highland gorge.
-- On the occasion in question, Queequeg figured in the Highland costume a shirt and socks in which to my eyes, at least, he appeared to uncommon advantage; and no one had a better chance to observe him, as will presently be seen.
-- Few are the foreheads which like Shakespeare's or Melancthon's rise so high, and descend so low, that the eyes themselves seem clear, eternal, tideless mountain lakes; and all above them in the forehead's wrinkles, you seem to track the antlered thoughts descending there to drink, as the Highland hunters track the snow prints of the deer.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The duke told him, and then says: 'I'll answer by doing the Highland fling or the sailor's hornpipe; and you well, let me see oh, I've got it you can do Hamlet's soliloquy.'
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