weather是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 天气, 气象,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.
-- Foul weather didn't know where to have him.
-- If the good Saint Dunstan had but nipped the Evil Spirit's 12 Sons and Loversnose with a touch of such weather as that, instead of using his familiar weapons, then indeed he would have roared to lusty purpose.
-- The fog and frost so hung about the black old gateway of the house, that it seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat in mournful meditation on the threshold.
-- It would have been in vain for Scrooge to plead that the weather and the hour were not adapted to pedestrian pur-poses; that bed was warm, and the thermometer a long way below freezing; that he was clad but lightly in his slippers, dressing-gown, and nightcap; and that he had a cold upon him at that time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands A tale of two citiesadjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revo-lution.
-- 'Yes, sir, if the weather holds and the wind sets tolerable fair.
-- The weather was stormy, and the passage long and rough, and I lay on a sofa, almost from shore to shore.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You arrived as soon as your letter, and you were so handsome that you still are and had a long yellow silk handkerchief round your neck, and a bran new hat on; oh, you were so dashing!Good heav-ens!What weather it was, and what a state the street was in!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said Stepan Arkadyevitch, forgetting that it was not always spring and fine weather like that day.
-- At tea the same evening Levin said to his brother: "I fancy the fine weather will last.
-- Only then he suddenly awoke to the fact that he had been wrong about the weather and the rain was drenching his hay.
-- "What weather for haying!What hay it'll be!"
-- After the thunder showers of the last few days, cold, bright weather had set in.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The weather was clear, and slightly chilly.
-- The first few days of the voyage passed prosperously, amid favourable weather and propitious winds, and they soon came in sight of the great Andaman, the principal of the islands in the Bay of Bengal, with its picturesque Saddle Peak, two thousand four hundred feet high, looming above the waters.
-- IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG, PASSEPARTOUT, AND FIX GO EACH ABOUT HIS BUSINESSThe weather was bad during the latter days of the voyage.
-- The weather was cold, the heavens grey, but it was not snowing.
-- The weather was dismal, and it was very cold.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Oh yes, sir, he is at home,' said Minnie:'this weather don't suit his asthma out of doors.
-- said Dora, 'or that the weather hasreally changed?'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Chapter XThough now the middle of December, there had yet been no weather to prevent the young ladies from tolerably reg-ular exercise; and on the morrow, Emma had a charitable visit to pay to a poor sick family, who lived a little way out of Highbury.
-- But hardly had she so spoken, when she found her broth-er was civilly offering a seat in his carriage, if the weather were Mr. Elton's only objection, and Mr. Elton actually ac-cepting the offer with much prompt satisfaction.
-- Mr. Woodhouse had so completely made up his mind to the visit, that in spite of the increasing coldness, he seemed to have no idea of shrinking from it, and set forward at last most punctually with his eldest daughter in his own car-riage, with less apparent consciousness of the weather than either of the others; too full of the wonder of his own go-ing, and the pleasure it was to afford at Randalls to see that it was cold, and too well wrapt up to feel it.
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