April是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 四月，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If in the misty April night Gottlieb had been romantic as a cloaked horseman, he was now testy and middle-aged.
-- He was vaguely ready for a quarrel, that April evening when he called on Madeline and her mother sniffily told him that she was to be found on the roof.
-- The commonplace room shone with peculiar light; the vigorous weeds and rough grass of the waste land were radiant under the April sun, and sparrows were cheeping.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seems to me at this hour, that Ihave never seen such sunlight as on those bright April afternoons;that I have never seen such a sunny little figure as I used to see,sitting in the doorway of the old boat; that I have never beheldsuch sky, such water, such glorified ships sailing away into goldenair.
-- Of our kneeling down together, side by side; of Dora's tremblingless and less, but always clasping Agnes by the hand; of the servicebeing got through, quietly and gravely; of our all looking at eachother in an April state of smiles and tears, when it is over; of myyoung wife being hysterical in the vestry, and crying for her poorpapa, her dear papa.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Here is April come!'
-- A man who had been in motion since eight o'clock in the morning, and might now have been still, who had been long talking, and might have been silent, who had been in more than one crowd, and might have been alone! Such a man, to quit the tranquillity and independence of his own fireside, and on the evening of a cold sleety April day rush out again into the world! Could he by a touch of his finger have instantly taken back his wife, there would have been a motive; but his coming would probably prolong rather than break up the party.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gabriel, to whom her face was as the uncertain glory of an April day, was ever regardful of its faintest changes, and instantly discerned thereon the mark of some influence from without, in the form of a keenly self-conscious reddening.
-- They were indifferently well assisted by the old maltster, who, when the malting season from October to April had passed, made himself useful upon any of the bordering farmsteads.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was for this precise reason that Stuart and Brent were idling on the porch of Tara this April afternoon.
-- Now that the sun was setting in a welter of crimson behind tin lulls across the Flint River, the warmth of the April daywas ebbing into a faint but balmy chill.
-- The day was warm for April and the golden sunlight streamed,brilliantly into Scarlett's room through the blue curtains of the wide windows.
-- She knew she'd rather let Melanie die than go out on the streets to hunt for thedoctor when the shells were falling like April rain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole scene starts out again in the vivid colors of the moment, down to the drops of April rain on the windows of the court, glittering in the rays of April sun.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- April 2, 1727 PART I A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT.
-- We then set sail, and had a good voyage till we passed the Straits of Madagascar; but having got northward of that island, and to about five degrees south latitude, the winds, which in those seas are observed to blow a constant equal gale between the north and west, from the beginning of December to the begin-ning of May, on the 19th of April began to blow with much greater violence, and more westerly than usual, continuing 97so for twenty days together: during which time, we were driven a little to the east of the Molucca Islands, and about three degrees northward of the line, as our captain found by an observation he took the 2nd of May, at which time the wind ceased, and it was a perfect calm, whereat I was not a little rejoiced.
-- On the 16th of April we put in at the Downs.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER NINE'I do think it was the most fortunate thing in the world that those children should have the measles just now,' said Meg, one April day, as she stood packing the 'go abroady' trunk in her room, surrounded by her sisters.
-- And Meg opened her arms to her sisters, who clung about her with April faces for a min-ute, feeling that the new love had not changed the old.
-- 'Jo' on the next lid, scratched and worn, And within a motley store Of headless, dolls, of schoolbooks torn, Birds and beasts that speak no more, Spoils brought home from the fairy ground Only trod by youthful feet, Dreams of a future never found, Memories of a past still sweet, Half-writ poems, stories wild, April letters, warm and cold, Diaries of a wilful child, Hints of a woman early old, A woman in a lonely home, Hearing, like a sad refrain 'Be worthy, love, and love will come,' In the falling summer rain.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air.
-- **Since the above was written, the statement is happily borne out by an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of the National Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- - This wall being described before, I purposely omit what was said in the journal; it is sufficient to observe, that I was no less time than from the 2nd of January to the 14th of April working, finishing, and perfecting this wall, though it was no more than about twenty-four yards in length, be-ing a half-circle from one place in the rock to another place, about eight yards from it, the door of the cave being in the centre behind it.
-- I worked excessive hard these three or four months to get my wall done; and the 14th of April I closed it up, contriv-ing to go into it, not by a door but over the wall, by a ladder, that there might be no sign on the outside of my habitation.
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