railway是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 铁路, 铁道,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:
-- He was unable to find the bridge: there was no railway either.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Chapter 17 Next day at eleven o'clock in the morning Vronsky drove to the station of the Petersburg railway to meet his mother, and the first person he came across on the great flight of steps was Oblonsky, who was expecting his sister by the same train.
-- Vronsky asked a railway official.
-- "I met Vronsky at the railway station."
-- She felt so light-hearted and serene, she saw so clearly that all that had seemed to her so important on her railway journey was only one of the common trivial incidents of fashionable life, and that she had no reason to feel ashamed before anyone else or before herself.
-- She gave him no encouragement, but every time she met him there surged up in her heart that same feeling of quickened life that had come upon her that day in the railway carriage when she saw him for the first time.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "But that doesn't take into account bad weather, contrary winds, shipwrecks, railway accidents, and so on."
-- Under his arm might have been observed a red-bound copy of Bradshaw's Continental Railway Steam Transit and General Guide, with its timetables showing the arrival and departure of steamers and railways.
-- The cab stopped before the railway station at twenty minutes past eight.
-- The greater part of the passengers from Brindisi were bound for India some for Bombay, others for Calcutta by way of Bombay, the nearest route thither, now that a railway crosses the Indian peninsula.
-- You see, a man of sound sense ought not to spend his life jumping from a steamer upon a railway train, and from a railway train upon a steamer again, pretending to make the tour of the world in eighty days!No; all these gymnastics, you may be sure, will cease at Bombay."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He made a checking list of the favorite neurasthenic fears: agoraphobia, claustrophobia, pyrophobia, anthropophobia, and the rest, ending with what he asserted to be "the most fool, pretentious, witch-doctor term of the whole bloomin' lot," namely, siderodromophobia, the fear of a railway journey.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is only ninety versts from us to the railway and we have come to an agreement with a driver we know, so as to be in readiness; and from there Dounia and I can travel quite comfortably third class.
-- Razumihin opened the note which was dated the previ-ous evening and read as follows: 'Dear Madam, Pulcheria Alexandrovna, I have the hon-our to inform you that owing to unforeseen obstacles I was 310 Crime and Punishmentrendered unable to meet you at the railway station; I sent a very competent person with the same object in view.
-- Razumihin chose a town on the railway not far from Petersburg, so as to be able to follow every step of the trial and at the same time to see Avdotya Romanovna as often as possible.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Almost the poising of the town's heart could be felt as the work went forward night and day, pumping thematerials of war up the railway arteries to the two battle fronts.
-- Here along Peachtree Street and near-by streets were the headquarters of the various army departments, eachoffice swarming with uniformed men, the commissary, the signal corps, the mail service, the railway transport, theprovost marshal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I left my servant at the railway looking after the luggage very heavy train and vast quantity of it in the van and strolled on, looking about me.
-- Among the fine gentlemen not regularly belonging to the Gradgrind school, there was one of a good family and a better appearance, with a happy turn of humour which had told immensely with the House of Commons on the occasion of his entertaining it with his (and the Board of Directors) view of a railway accident, in which the most careful officers ever known, employed by the most liberal managers ever heard of, assisted by the finest mechanical contrivances ever devised, the whole in action on the best line ever constructed, had killed five people and wounded thirty-two, by a casualty without which the excellence of the whole system would have been positively incomplete.
-- And the honourable member had so tickled the House (which has a delicate sense of humour) by putting the cap on the cow, that it became impatient of any serious reference to the Coroner's Inquest, and brought the railway off with Cheers and Laughter.
-- Mr. Bounderby had taken possession of a house and grounds, about fifteen miles from the town, and accessible within a mile or two, by a railway striding on many arches over a wild country, undermined by deserted coal-shafts, and spotted at night by fires and black shapes of stationary engines at pits' mouths.
-- Almost as soon as the ink was dry upon their superscriptions, he had left the tall chimneys of Coketown behind, p. 179and was in a railway carriage, tearing and glaring over the dark landscape.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We then took our tickets, and exactly at seven o'clock were seated opposite each other in a firstclass railway carriage.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Julia is labelled MRS ARNOLD B. HAMMOND just like a trunk on the railway that belongs to somebody.
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