wharf是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 码头， 停泊所，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《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Opposite them, on the other side of the street, between a coal wharf and a petroleum warehouse, a large platform had been erected in the open air, towards which the current of the crowd seemed to be directed.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As they drove upon a wharf littered with hides and boxes and disconsolate steerage passengers, he peered out of their crammed taxicab and announced that the bow of the St. Buryan--all they could see of it--reminded him of the Spanish steamer he had taken to the Cape Verde Isles.
-- For hours Sondelius talked, of Shanghai and epistemology and the painting of Nevinson; for hours he sang scurrilous lyrics of the Quarter, and boomed, "Yey, how I kill the rats at Kellett's wharf today!I don't t'ink one little swizzle would break down too many glomeruli in an honest man's kidneys."
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：
-- And the crowd that throngs the wharf as the steamer draws alongside is gay and debonair; it is a noisy, cheerful, gesticulating crowd.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a crazy old house with a wharf of its own,abutting on the water when the tide was in, and on the mud whenthe tide was out, and literally overrun with rats.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am going to the wharf this morning the earlier the better, so be quick.'
-- At last, having gone through these proceedings and many others which were equally a part of his system, Mr Quilp left them, reduced to a very obedient and humbled state, and betook himself to the river-side, where he took boat for the wharf on which he had bestowed his name.
-- With that, Mr Quilp suffered himself to roll gradually off the desk until his short legs touched the ground, when he got upon them and led the way from the counting-house to the wharf outside, when the first objects that presented themselves were the boy who had stood on his head and another young gentleman of about his own stature, rolling in the mud together, locked in a tight embrace, and cuffing each other with mutual heartiness.
-- 'Then what do you fight on my wharf for, you villain?'
-- Moreover, he sent an express to the wharf for the tumbling boy, who arriving with all despatch was enjoined to sit himself down in another chair just inside the door, continually to smoke a great pipe which the dwarf had provided for the purpose, and to take it from his lips under any pretence whatever, were it only for one minute at a time, if he dared.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were states of the tide when, having been down the river, I could not get back through the eddy-chafed arches and starlings of old London Bridge; then, I left my boat at a wharf near the Custom House, to be brought up afterwards to the Temple stairs.
-- One afternoon, late in the month of February, I came ashore at the wharf at dusk.
-- I had again left my boat at the wharf below Bridge; the time was an hour earlier in the afternoon; and, undecided where to dine, I had strolled up into Cheapside, and was strolling along it, surely the most unsettled person in all the busy concourse, when a large hand was laid upon my shoulder by some one overtaking me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So like him, as I knew him (when I first spoke English for him to the host) in the Cabaret of the Three Billiard Tables, in the little street of the high roofs, by the wharf at Antwerp!Ah, but he was a brave boy to drink.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How plainly he's a fugitive!no baggage, not a hat-box, valise, or carpet-bag, no friends accompany him to the wharf with their adieux.
-- Another runs to read the bill that's stuck against the spile upon the wharf to which the ship is moored, offering five hundred gold coins for the apprehension of a parricide, and containing a description of his person.
-- "Screwed at its axis against the side, a swinging lamp slightly oscillates in Jonah's room; and the ship, heeling over towards the wharf with the weight of the last bales received, the lamp, flame and all, though in slight motion, still maintains a permanent obliquity with reference to the room; though, in truth, infallibly straight itself, it but made obvious the false, lying levels among which it hung.
-- "And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all careening, glides to sea.
-- As we were walking down the end of the wharf towards the ship, Queequeg carrying his harpoon, Captain Peleg in his gruff voice loudly hailed us from his wigwam, saying he had not suspected my friend was a cannibal, and furthermore announcing that he let no cannibals on board that craft, unless they previously produced their papers.
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