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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "My poor child, there is but a faint hope; but with the help of almighty Heaven it is just possible you may one day see your father once more."
-- This venerable edifice, so marvelously described by Walter Scott, remains intact amid the ruins made by the Reformation; and it was there, beneath its lofty arches, in the grand nave, in the presence of an immense crowd, and surrounded by tombs as thickly set as in a cemetery, that they all assembled to implore the blessing of Heaven on their expedition, and to put themselves under the protection of Providence.
-- Heaven grant Robert may be still alive!If we lose the boy, how could we ever dare to meet the father?
-- "Then all I have now to say is, my friends," said Glenarvan, "away to Australia, and may Heaven help us!"
-- May heaven be our guide, and keep us from ever being thrown within the power of those fierce natives!"
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:
-- I hope to heaven that he has gone, for he has brought nothing but trouble here!I've not heard of him since I left out food for him last, and that was three days ago.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In their opinion, the latter's destiny was not merely to be very happy; she was to live in a heaven on earth.
-- He was particularly anxious that this one day should be passed especially the evening without unpleasantness between himself and his family; and just at the right mo-ment the prince turned up 'as though Heaven had sent him on purpose,' said the general to himself, as he left the study to seek out the wife of his bosom.
-- He was in the seventh heaven of delight.
-- It may be that in the other world she will rejoice to think that a sinner like herself has cried to heaven for the salvation of her soul.
-- By heaven I have!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Was it not heaven that made you so?
-- While he was thus in two minds, and was drawing his mighty sword from its scab-bard, Minerva came down from heaven (for Juno had sent her in the love she bore to them both), and seized the son of Peleus by his yellow hair, visible to him alone, for of the others no man could see her.
-- Thetis was not un-mindful of the charge her son had laid upon her, so she rose from under the sea and went through great heaven with early morning to Olympus, where she found the mighty son of Saturn sitting all alone upon its topmost ridges.
-- Grant-ed that it is as you say; I mean to have it so; sit down and hold your tongue as I bid you for if I once begin to lay my hands about you, though all heaven were on your side it would profit you nothing.'
-- 'It will be intolerable,' said he, 'if you two fall to wrangling and setting heaven in an uproar about a pack of mortals.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And I tell you, pleasure and pain have nothing to do with heaven or hell.
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:
-- His roving eyes began to moisten, and before the hymn was ended scalding tears rolled out of fountains that had long seemed dry, and followed each other down those cheeks, that had oftener felt the storms of heaven than any testimonials of weakness.
-- I should think myself wicked, unto rebellion against His will, was I to bur-row with such warnings in the air!Even the weak soul who passes his days in singing is stirred by the cry, and, as he says, is 'ready to go forth to the battle' If 'twere only a battle, it would be a thing understood by us all, and easily man-aged; but I have heard that when such shrieks are atween heaven and 'arth, it betokens another sort of warfare!'
-- 'These devils will scale heaven to circumvent us to our ruin,' said Hawkeye; 'keep him in play, boy, until I can bring 'killdeer' to bear, when we will try his metal on each side of the tree at once.'
-- From that moment the yells in the forest once more ceased, the fire was suffered to decline, and all eyes, those of friends as well as enemies, became fixed on the hopeless condition of the wretch who was dangling between heaven and earth.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And now poverty threatened to seize her entirely and to remove this other world far upward like a heaven to which any Lazarus might extend, appealingly, his hands.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- come, all that's worn and soiled and suffering! come with a broken spirit!come with a con-trite heart!come in your rags and sin and dirt!the waters that cleanse is free, the door of heaven stands open oh, enter in and be at rest!'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Good night, Pinocchio, and may Heaven preserve you from the Assassins."
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