watery是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 水的； 湿的； 乏味的，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：
-- The curtain slowly rose over the vast watery stage.
-- But the rays of the sun soon broke through the watery mass and melted it away.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Sir Henry and I sat at breakfast the sunlight flooded in through the high mullioned windows, throwing watery patches of colour from the coats of arms which covered them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Crouching down in a corner, peeping up the lane, 227the next object that Young Jerry saw, was the form of his honoured parent, pretty well defined against a watery and clouded moon, nimbly scaling an iron gate.
-- We are through the village, up the hill, and down the hill, and on the low watery grounds.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had watery grey eyes, oddly void of expression.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kotick, Matkah's baby, was born in the middle of that confusion, and he was all head and shoulders, with pale, watery blue eyes, as tiny seals must be, but there was some-thing about his coat that made his mother look at him very closely.
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：
-- He was interrupted by a long and heavy groan which arose from the little basin, as though, in truth, the spirits of the departed lingered about their watery sepulcher.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The roaring Bunsen flames beneath the hot-air ovens, the steam from the Arnold sterilizers rolling to the rafters, clouding the windows, were to Martin lovely with activity, and to him the most radiant things in the world were rows of test-tubes filled with watery serum and plugged with cotton singed to a coffee brown, a fine platinum loop leaning in a shiny test-glass, a fantastic hedge of tall glass tubes mysteriously connecting jars, or a bottle rich with gentian violet stain.
-- Now he was diverted by what he considered its foreignness: the lofty walls of wood painted a watery blue, the wide furnitureless spaces, the bougainvillaea at the window, and in the courtyard the merciless heat and rattling metallic leaves of palmettoes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Dick, as I have already said, was grey-headed and florid: Ishould have said all about him, in saying so, had not his head beencuriously bowed- not by age; it reminded me of one of Mr.Creakle's boys' heads after a beating- and his grey eyes prominentand large, with a strange kind of watery brightness in them thatmade me, in combination with his vacant manner, his submissionto my aunt, and his childish delight when she praised him, suspecthim of being a little mad; though, if he were mad, how he came tobe there, puzzled me extremely.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now night drooped slowly upon the wide watery levels in front; and at no great distance from them, where the shoreline curved round, and formed a long riband of shade upon the horizon, a series of points of yellow light began to start into existence, denoting the spot to be the site of Budmouth, where the lamps were being lighted along the parade.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beautiful!Great God!His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lus-trous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under the low red glare of sunset, the beacon, and the gibbet, and the mound of the Battery, and the opposite shore of the river, were plain, though all of a watery lead color.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No doubt he has disturbed some terrible monster in his watery home, and perhaps we may pay dearly for our temerity."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It being that period of the forenoon when the various members of the family had coffee in their own chambers, some couple of hours before assembling at breakfast in a faded hall which had once been sumptuous, but was now the prey of watery vapours and a settled melancholy, Mrs General was accessible to the valet.
-- The constancy of his attendance never touched Fanny: though he was so inseparable from Edward, that, when that gentleman wished for a change of society, he was under the irksome necessity of gliding out like a conspirator in disguised boats and by secret doors and back ways; though he was so solicitous to know how Mr Dorrit was, that he called every other day to inquire, as if Mr Dorrit were the prey of an intermittent fever; though he was so constantly being paddled up and down before the principal windows, that he might have been supposed to have made a wager for a large stake to be paddled a thousand miles in a thousand hours; though whenever the gondola of his mistress left the gate, the gondola of Mr Sparkler shot out from some watery ambush and gave chase, as if she were a fair smuggler and he a custom-house officer.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some years ago never mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
-- As we have seen, God came upon him in the whale, and swallowed him down to living gulfs of doom, and with swift slantings tore him along 'into the midst of the seas,' where the eddying depths sucked him ten thousand fathoms down, and 'the weeds were wrapped about his head,' and all the watery world of woe bowled over him.
-- What wonder, then, that these Nantucketers, born on a beach, should take to the sea for a livelihood!They first caught crabs and quohogs in the sand; grown bolder, they waded out with nets for mackerel; more experienced, they pushed off in boats and captured cod; and at last, launching a navy of great ships on the sea, explored this watery world; put an incessant belt of circumnavigations round it; peeped in at Behring's Straits; and in all seasons and all oceans declared everlasting war with the mightiest animated mass that has survived the flood; most monstrous and most mountainous!That Himmalehan, salt-sea Mastodon, clothed with such portentousness of unconscious power, that his very panics are more to be dreaded than his most fearless and malicious assaults!
-- And thus have these naked Nantucketers, these sea hermits, issuing from their ant-hill in the sea, overrun and conquered the watery world like so many Alexanders; parcelling out among them the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, as the three pirate powers did Poland.
-- Uncommonly conscientious for a seaman, and endued with a deep natural reverence, the wild watery loneliness of his life did therefore strongly incline him to superstition; but to that sort of superstition, which in some organizations seems rather to spring, somehow, from intelligence than from ignorance.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rain, too, would make me a watery outline, a glistening surface of a man a bubble.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lamps were beginning to burn with that mellow radiance which seems almost watery and translucent to the eye.
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