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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was hard to say... Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal; and Amy leaned against her husband, who stood behind her, feeling that her welcome home was not quite perfect without Beth's kiss.
-- If John and my Fritz were only here, it would be quite a little heaven on earth,' she added more quietly.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "'I am a Hebrew,' he cries and then 'I fear the Lord the God of Heaven who hath made the sea and the dry land!'
-- Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and earth pagans and all included can possibly be jealous of an insignificant bit of black wood?
-- All our arguing with him would not avail; let him be, I say: and Heaven have mercy on us all Presbyterians and Pagans alike for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
-- Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?
-- I call him thus, because he always swims in hilarious shoals, which upon the broad sea keep tossing themselves to heaven like caps in a Fourth-of-July crowd.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I suppose it was,' replied Oliver, 'because heaven is a long way off; and they are too happy there, to come down to the bedside of a poor boy.
-- Everything was so quiet, and neat, and orderly; everybody so kind and gentle; that after the noise and turbulence in the midst of which he had always lived, it seemed like Heaven itself.
-- Then, falling upon his knees, he prayed Heaven to spare him from such deeds; and rather to will that he should die at once, than be reserved for crimes, so fearful and appalling.
-- Crawling forth, from day to day, to some green sunny spot, they have had such memories wakened up within them by the sight of the sky, and hill and plain, and glistening water, that a foretaste of heaven itself has soothed their quick decline, and they have sunk into their tombs, as peacefully as the sun whose setting they watched from their lonely chamber window but a few hours before, faded from their dim and feeble sight!The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes.
-- Heaven will never let her die so young.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Heaven forbid!THAT would be the greatest misfortune of all!To find a man agreeable whom on is determined to hate!Do not wish me such an evil.'
-- Would to Heaven that anything could be either said or done on my part that might offer consolation to such distress!But I will not torment you with vain wishes, which may seem purposely to ask for your thanks.
-- Heaven and earth! of what are you thinking?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I began now seriously to reflect upon what I had done, and how justly I was overtaken by the judgment of Heaven for my wicked leaving my father's house, and abandoning my duty.
-- 'That is another case,' said he; 'it is my call-ing, and therefore my duty; but as you made this voyage on trial, you see what a taste Heaven has given you of what you are to expect if you persist.
-- However, he afterwards talked very gravely to me, exhorting me to go back to my father, and not tempt Providence to my ruin, telling me I might see a visible hand of Heaven against me.
-- At this surprising change of my circumstances, from a mer-chant to a miserable slave, I was perfectly overwhelmed; and now I looked back upon my father's prophetic discourse to me, that I should be miserable and have none to relieve me, which I thought was now so effectually brought to pass that I could not be worse; for now the hand of Heaven had over-taken me, and I was undone without redemption; but, alas!
-- But how just has it been - and how should all men reflect, that when they compare their present condi-tions with others that are worse, Heaven may oblige them to make the exchange, and be convinced of their former felic-ity by their experience - I say, how just has it been, that the truly solitary life I reflected on, in an island of mere desola-tion, should be my lot, who had so often unjustly compared it with the life which I then led, in which, had I continued, I had in all probability been exceeding prosperous and rich.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes; and heaven knows how much longer we may have to wait.
-- Lady Middleton looked as if she thanked heaven that SHE had never made so rude a speech.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were soft rugs, rich, upholstered chairs and divans, a grand piano, a marble carving of some unknown Venus by some unknown artist, and a number of small bronzes gathered from heaven knows where, but generally sold by the large furniture houses along with everything else which goes to make the "perfectly appointed house."
-- Sunday passed with equal doubts, worries, assurances, and heaven knows what vagaries of mind and spirit.
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