walk是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 走, 步行, 散步; 走遍n. 走, 步行, 散步,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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When thou art old, Kala Nag, there will come some rich rajah, and he will buy thee from the Government, on ac-count of thy size and thy manners, and then thou wilt have nothing to do but to carry gold earrings in thy ears, and a gold howdah on thy back, and a red cloth covered with gold on thy sides, and walk at the head of the processions of the King.
-- While the men that walk beside, Dusty, silent, heavy-eyed, Cannot tell why we or they March and suffer day by day.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- repeated the scout; 'I wouldn't walk a mile in these woods after night gets into them, in company with that runner, for the best rifle in the colonies.
-- 'The sinews and bones of a man carry me through it all,' said the hunter, surveying his muscular limbs with a sim-plicity that betrayed the honest pleasure the compliment afforded him; 'there are larger and heavier men to be found in the settlements, but you might travel many days in a city before you could meet one able to walk fifty miles without stopping to take breath, or who has kept the hounds with-in hearing during a chase of hours.
-- The man started; his arms rattled heavily as he threw them forward in the lowest and most respectful salute; and when he had again recovered his piece, he turned to walk his post, muttering between his teeth: 'Il faut etre vigilant, en verite!je crois que nous avons la, un caporal qui ne dort jamais!'
-- And the fellow will drink when he can get an opportunity; your drinking Indian always learns to walk with a wider toe than the natural savage, it being the gift of a drunkard to straddle, whether of white or red skin.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Certain it is, the place still con-tinues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie.
-- But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cud-dling in the chimney corner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood fire, and where, of course, no spectre dared to show its face, it was dearly pur-chased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards.
-- All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phan-toms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely perambula-tions, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was a woman.
-- Besides, there is no encouragement for ghosts in most of our villages, for they have scarcely had time to finish their first nap and turn themselves in their graves, before their surviving friends have travelled away from the neighborhood; so that when they turn out at night to walk their rounds, they have no ac-quaintance left to call upon.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The ironic philosopher reflects with a smile that Sir Walter Raleigh is more safely inshrined in the memory of mankind because he set his cloak for the Virgin Queen to walk on than because he carried the English name to undiscovered countries.
-- Next day about six o'clock I took a cab to the Rue des Moines, but dismissed it at the corner, since I preferred to walk to the hotel and look at it before I went in.
-- After all, in any other walk in life it doesn't matter if you're not very good; you can get along quite comfortably if you're just adequate; but it's different with an artist."
-- I have been to Paris a hundred times, and it never fails to give me a thrill of excitement; I can never walk its streets without feeling myself on the verge of adventure.
-- I will walk a few steps with our friend, and then I will come back."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After a walk of a mile and a half, the shore presented no curve which would permit them to return to the north.
-- Forgetting everything but their chief, hoping or wishing to hope on, they continued to walk up and down on this sterile spot, always returning to its northern point, where they could approach nearest to the scene of the catastrophe.
-- The turn of the rocks sheltered them from the wind, and they could breathe after this walk or rather run of a quarter of an hour.
-- Neb then resolved to walk along the beach for some miles.
-- "However," remarked Pencroft, "you must have been thrown on to the beach, and you must have had strength to walk here, since Neb found your footmarks!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I am sure you will not do that,' said the little creature,' you are such a very old gentleman, and walk so slow yourself.'
-- The old man kissed her, then turning to me and begging me to walk in, I did so.
-- Take care that the day don't come when you walk barefoot in the streets, and she rides by in a gay carriage of her own.'
-- And if it was dark and rather dull, we used to say, what did it matter to us, for it only made us remember our last walk with greater pleasure, and look forward to our next one.
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