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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To mistake a railway or to take the train to Edinburgh when you want to go to Dumbarton might happen; but to mistake a ship and be sailing for Chili when you meant to go to India—that is a blunder indeed!
-- Suppose he were in a railway train, would they stop it for him?"
-- We are in civilized districts without seeing any sign of it; but our road will, before the day is over, cross the railway which connects the Murray with the sea.
-- Well, I must confess, a railway in Australia does seem to me an astonishing thing!"
-- Quite a number of persons were hastening toward the railway bridge.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Part I I owards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine To'clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Peters- burg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed.
-- If they had but known why, at this par- ticular moment, they were both remarkable persons, they would undoubtedly have wondered at the strange chance which had set them down opposite to one another in a third- class carriage of the Warsaw Railway Company.
-- I think I must be one of those who are born to be in luck, for one does not of-ten meet with people whom one feels he can love from the first sight of their faces; and yet, no sooner do I step out of the railway carriage than I happen upon you!
-- And as to the third of our trio, Epanchin, of course after that little affair with the poodle in the railway carriage, it was all UP between us.'
-- And in a railway carriage?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Invisible Man A Grotesque Romance By H. G. Wells CONTENTS I The strange Man's Arrival II Mr. Teddy Henfrey's first Impressions III The thousand and one Bottles IV Mr. Cuss interviews the Stranger V The Burglary at the Vicarage VI The Furniture that went mad VII The Unveiling of the Stranger VIII In Transit IX Mr. Thomas Marvel X Mr. Marvel's Visit to Iping XI In the "Coach and Horses" XII The invisible Man loses his Temper XIII Mr. Marvel discusses his Resignation XIV At Port Stowe XV The Man who was running XVI In the "Jolly Cricketers" XVII Dr. Kemp's Visitor XVIII The invisible Man sleeps XIX Certain first Principles XX At the House in Great Portland Street XXI In Oxford Street XXII In the Emporium XXIII In Drury Lane XXIV The Plan that failed XXV The Hunting of the invisible Man XXVI The Wicksteed Murder XXVII The Siege of Kemp's House XXVIII The Hunter hunted The Epilogue CHAPTER I THE STRANGE MAN'S ARRIVAL The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.
-- The only light in the room was the red glow from the fire which lit his eyes like adverse railway signals, but left his downcast face in darkness and the scanty vestiges of the day that came in through the open door.
-- "We crawled past Mudie's, and there a tall woman with five or six yellow-labelled books hailed my cab, and I sprang out just in time to escape her, shaving a railway van narrowly in my flight.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Conceive the tale of London which a negro, fresh from Central Africa, would take back to his tribe!What would he know of railway companies, of social movements, of telephone and telegraph wires, of the Parcels Delivery Company, and postal orders and the like?
-- There is a tendency to utilise underground space for the less ornamental purposes of civilisation; there is the Metropolitan Railway in London, for instance, there are new electric railways, there are subways, there are underground workrooms and restaurants, and they increase and multiply.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I don't belong to this railway journey at all I was in a wood just now and I wish I could get back there.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unfortunate man of science, after having braved the icebergs of the South Pole, the coral reefs of Oceania, the cannibals of the Pacific, to perish miserably in a railway train!If this energetic man could have reflected during the last moments of his life, what must have been uppermost in his last thoughts, do you suppose?"
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 platform of the railway station he saw Gerald Crich, reading a newspaper, and evidently waiting for the train.
-- COAL-DUSTGoing home from school in the afternoon, the Brangwen girls descended the hill between the picturesque cottages of Willey Green till they came to the railway crossing.
-- He saluted the two girls, and drew up at the crossing to wait for the gate, looking down the railway for the approaching train.
-- On the left, as the girls walked silently, the coal-mine lifted its great mounds and its patterned head-stocks, the black railway with the trucks at rest looked like a harbour just below, a large bay of railroad with anchored wagons.
-- Both wore light, gay summer dresses, Ursula had an orange-coloured knitted coat, Gudrun a pale yellow, Ursula wore canary yellow stockings, Gudrun bright rose, the figures of the two women seemed to glitter in progress over the wide bay of the railway crossing, white and orange and yellow and rose glittering in motion across a hot world silted with coal-dust.
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：
-- I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, ad-dress and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as the mighty iron Leviathan of the modern railway is so familiarly known in its every pace, that, with watches in their hands, men time his rate as doctors that of a baby's pulse; and lightly say of it, the up train or the down train will reach such or such a spot, at such or such an hour; even so, almost, there are occasions when these Nantucketers time that other Leviathan of the deep, according to the observed humor of his speed; and say to themselves, so many hours hence this whale will have gone two hundred miles, will have about reached this or that degree of latitude or longitude.
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