heaven是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 天， 天空， 天堂； (Heaven) 上帝， 神，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But Charlotte," continued Coggan "not a word of the sort would Charlotte allow, nor the smallest item of taking in vain.... Ay, poor Charlotte, I wonder if she had the good fortune to get into Heaven when 'a died!But 'a was never much in luck's way, and perhaps 'a went downwards after all, poor soul."
-- The full power of the clear heaven was not equal to that of a cloudy sky at noon, when Boldwood arose and dressed himself.
-- "Then you know nothing of what such an experience is like and Heaven forbid that you ever should!"
-- The pale lustre yet hanging in the north-western heaven was sufficient to show that a sprig of ivy had grown from the wall across the door to a length of more than a foot, delicately tying the panel to the stone jamb.
-- The confused beginnings of many birds' songs spread into the healthy air, and the wan blue of the heaven was here and there coated with thin webs of incorporeal cloud which were of no effect in obscuring day.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is quite right and proper, mademoiselle, to pray to Heaven to soften your father's heart," said Vautrin, as he drew a chair nearer to the orphan girl; "but that is not enough.
-- What power there must be in the petitions put up by such hearts; how pure the fervor that bears their souls to Heaven in prayer!What exquisite joy they would find in self-sacrifice!What a pang for his mother's heart if she could not send him all that he asked for!And this noble affection, these sacrifices made at such terrible cost, were to serve as the ladder by which he meant to climb to Delphine de Nucingen.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heaven shower down blessings on you, and save me, that I may again and again testify my gratitude for all your love and kindness.
-- Heaven bless my beloved sister!
-- It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the out-ward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my in-quiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.
-- The conscience of the woman was troubled; she began to think that the deaths of her favourites was a judgment from heaven to chastise her partiality.
-- The God of heaven forgive me!Ever since I was condemned, my confessor has besieged me; he threatened and menaced, until I almost be-gan to think that I was the monster that he said I was.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To her, Ellen represented the utter security that only Heaven or a mother can give.
-- "I wish to Heaven I was married," she said resentfully as she attacked the yams with loathing.
-- It it would be Heaven just knowing that you were waiting for me untilafter we licked them!"
-- Though Heaven knows how they manage it, with their neighbors watching.
-- She went back toward her father with me reviving liquor, thanking Heaven that the famous O'Hara head had notbeen able to survive last night's bout and wondering suddenly if Rhett Butler had had anything to do with that.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though Heaven knows they never did by word or sign.
-- Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
-- She turned her face to me for the first time since she had averted it, and, to my amazement, I may even add to my terror, dropped on her knees at my feet; with her folded hands raised to me in the manner in which, when her poor heart was young and fresh and whole, they must often have been raised to heaven from her mother's side.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Heaven reward you for your kind-ness and self-denial!'
-- 'Heaven forbid!'
-- Every morning she went into the gar- den and prayed to God in heaven to bestow on her a son or a daughter.
-- Then an angel from heaven came to her and said: 'Be at rest, you shall have a son with the power of wishing, so that whatsoever in the world he wishes for, that shall he have.'
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