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：
-- 'Go to him, and say that you left them with a message to hasten to their aid,' returned Cora, advancing nigher to the scout in her generous ardor; 'that the Hurons bear them into the northern wilds, but that by vigilance and speed they may yet be rescued; and if, after all, it should please heaven that his assistance come too late, bear to him,' she continued, her voice gradually lowering, until it seemed nearly choked, 'the love, the blessings, the final prayers of his daughters, and bid him not mourn their early fate, but to look forward with humble confidence to the Christian's goal to meet his children.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then there were apple pies, and peach pies, and pumpkin pies; besides slices of ham and smoked beef; and moreover delectable dishes of preserved plums, and peaches, and pears, and quinces; not to mention broiled shad and roasted chickens; together with bowls of milk and cream, all mingled higgledy- pigglely, pretty much as I have enumerated them, with the motherly teapot sending up its clouds of vapor from the midst Heaven bless the mark!I want breath and time to discuss this banquet as it deserves, and am too eager to get on with my story.
-- Heaven only knows, not I!Let it suffice to say, Ichabod stole forth with the air of one who had been sacking a henroost, rather than a fair lady's heart.
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：
-- Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experiences he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.
-- I supposed that for some reason or other and Heaven knows what ingenuity men exercise to torment themselves Dirk had got it into his head that his wife cared for Strickland, and with his genius for blundering he might quite well have offended her so that, to anger him, perhaps, she had taken pains to foster his suspicion.
-- He was married to an American woman, obese and slatternly, fallen to this pass by Heaven knows what process of degradation, and every day the boarders took it in turns to help her with the housework.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Heaven had reserved them for a strange destiny, and after having, on the 20th of March, escaped from Richmond, besieged by the troops of General Ulysses Grant, they found themselves seven thousand miles from the capital of Virginia, which was the principal stronghold of the South, during the terrible War of Secession.
-- "This evening, at ten o'clock," replied Captain Harding; "and Heaven grant that the storm does not abate before our departure.
-- Prometheus going to steal the fire from heaven could not have been more anxious.
-- How grateful the inhabitants of Granite House then were to Heaven for having prepared for them this solid and immovable retreat!Cyrus Harding had also his legitimate share of thanks, but after all, it was Nature who had hollowed out this vast cavern, and he had only discovered it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the country, I seldom go out until after dark, though, Heaven be thanked, I love its light and feel the cheerfulness it sheds upon the earth, as much as any creature living.
-- It checks their confidence and simplicity two of the best qualities that Heaven gives them and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.'
-- 'Heaven send she may!I hope so,' said the old man with something like a groan.
-- 'I call Heaven to witness that I never played for gain of mine, or love of play; that at every piece I staked, I whispered to myself that orphan's name and called on Heaven to bless the venture; which it never did.
-- Thank Heaven that the temples of such spirits are not made with hands, and that they may be even more worthily hung with poor patch-work than with purple and fine linen!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Others commit heaven knows what crimes, and they go scot free, while I must suffer for nothing."
-- Heaven knows what a mixture they are: either Germans, such as Ge, Fe, De--tout l'alphabet--or all sorts of Ivanvas, Semenovs, Nikitins, or Ivaneukos, Semeneukos, Nikitenkas pour varier.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was long ere I could close an eye, and heaven knows I had matter enough for thought in the man whom I had slain that afternoon, in my own most perilous position, and above all, in the remarkable game that I saw Silver now engaged upon keeping the mutineers together with one hand and grasping with the other after every means, possible and impossible, to make his peace and save his miserable life.
-- Heaven knows, I cannot find it in my heart to blame you, but this much I will say, be it kind or unkind: when Captain Smollett was well, you dared not have gone off; and when he was ill and couldn't help it, by George, it was downright cowardly!"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here was one who would go to the whole lengths of heaven or hell, whichever she had to go.
-- We always consider the silver river of life, rolling on and quickening all the world to a brightness, on and on to heaven, flowing into a bright eternal sea, a heaven of angels thronging.
-- He, the rich man who would hardly enter heaven because of his possessions, must now turn upon the poor, upon those who were nearer Christ than himself, those who were humble and despised and closer to perfection, those who were manly and noble in their labours, and must say to them: "Ye shall neither labour nor eat bread."
-- They can know each other, heavenly and hellish, but particularly hellish, so perfectly that they go beyond heaven and hell into there it all breaks down into nowhere."
-- She knew he loved her, and she was afraid, she was in a strange element, a new heaven round about her.
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