terrace是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 斜坡地, 梯田; 看台, 大阶梯，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 166 A tale of two citiesIX The Gorgon's Head t was a heavy mass of building, that chateau of Monsieur Ithe Marquis, with a large stone courtyard before it, and two stone sweeps of staircase meeting in a stone terrace be-fore the principal door.
-- Such ample leisure had the stone faces, now, for listening to the trees and to the fountain, that the few village scarecrows who, in their quest for herbs to eat and fragments of dead stick to burn, strayed within sight of the great stone courtyard and terrace staircase, had it borne in upon their starved fancy that the expression of the faces was altered.
-- Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within; uneasy rushes of wind went through the hall, among the old spears and knives, and passed la-menting up the stairs, and shook the curtains of the bed where the last Marquis had slept.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And feeling satisfied that she was alone, and wanting to take her by surprise, since he had not promised to be there today, and she would certainly not expect him to come before the races, he walked, holding his sword and stepping cautiously over the sandy path, bordered with flowers, to the terrace that looked out upon the garden.
-- She was sitting on the terrace waiting for the return of her son, who had gone out for his walk and been caught in the rain.
-- Dressed in a white gown, deeply embroidered, she was sitting in a corner of the terrace behind some flowers, and did not hear him.
-- Chapter 621 On the terrace were assembled all the ladies of the party.
-- Besides the sewing and knitting of baby clothes, with which all of them were busy, that afternoon jam was being made on the terrace by a method new to Agafea Mihalovna, without the addition of water.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not finish his sentence; for a terrific hubbub now arose on the terrace behind the flight of steps where they stood, and there were frantic shouts of, "Hurrah for Mandiboy!Hip, hip, hurrah!"
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：
-- Do you remember what a lot of talk we had together on this subject, sitting in the evenings on the terrace after supper?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He paid me a week down (fromhis own pocket, I believe), and I gave Mealy sixpence out of it toget my trunk carried to Windsor Terrace at night: it being tooheavy for my strength, small as it was.
-- Arrived at his house in Windsor Terrace (which I noticed wasshabby like himself, but also, like himself, made all the show itcould), he presented me to Mrs. Micawber, a thin and faded lady,not at all young, who was sitting in the parlour (the first floor wasaltogether unfurnished, and the blinds were kept down to deludethe neighbours), with a baby at her breast.
-- My scatteredsenses were soon collected as to that point, if I had; for I came to astop in the Kent Road, at a terrace with a piece of water before it,and a great foolish image in the middle, blowing a dry shell.
-- He mentioned a terrace at thewestern end of Oxford Street, fronting Hyde Park, on which he hadalways had his eye, but which he did not expect to attainimmediately, as it would require a large establishment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an odd sensation to see his very familiar face established quite at home in that very unfamiliar room and region; and I found myself looking at him, much as I looked at the corner-cupboard with the glass and china, the shells upon the chimney-piece, and the colored engravings on the wall, representing the death of Captain Cook, a ship-launch, and his Majesty King George the Third in a state coachman's wig, leather-breeches, and top-boots, on the terrace at Windsor.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In about half an hour we reached a kind of small terrace formed by a fragment of rock projecting some distance from the sides of the shaft.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- City there; terrace gardens blushing with the bella donna.
-- They crossed the bare scorched terrace all three together, and disappeared through a staring white archway.
-- The painted room in which she awoke, often a humbled state-chamber in a dilapidated palace, would begin it; with its wild red autumnal vine-leaves overhanging the glass, its orange-trees on the cracked white terrace outside the window, a group of monks and peasants in the little street below, misery and magnificence wrestling with each other upon every rood of ground in the prospect, no matter how widely diversified, and misery throwing magnificence with the strength of fate.
-- They turned short into the Adelphi, the girl evidently leading, and went straight on, as if they were going to the Terrace which overhangs the river.
-- When he rounded the dark corner, they were walking along the terrace towards a figure which was coming towards them.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I liked the great terrace best, for the view was divine, so while the rest went to see the rooms inside, I sat there trying to sketch the gray stone lion's head on the wall, with scarlet woodbine sprays hanging round it.
-- asked Amy, pausing on the terrace to enjoy the view, and a luxurious whiff of perfume that came wandering by.
-- She never had much to show when she came home, but was studying nature, I dare say, while she sat for hours, with her hands folded, on the terrace at Valrosa, or absently sketched any fancy that occurred to her, a stalwart knight carved on a tomb, a young man asleep in the grass, with his hat over his eyes, or a curly haired girl in gorgeous array, promenading down a ballroom on the arm of a tall gentleman, both faces being left a blur ac-cording to the last fashion in art, which was safe but not altogether satisfactory.
扩展阅读：