earth是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 地球； 陆地； 泥土， 土壤； 尘世， 人间，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh!captive, bound, and double-ironed,' cried the phan-tom, 'not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed.
-- 'There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit,' who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Got out at last, with earth hanging about his face and hair, he would suddenly fan away to dust.
-- Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful.
-- Beneath that arch of unmoved and eternal lights; some, so remote from this little earth that the learned tell us it is doubtful whether their rays have even yet discovered it, as a point in space where anything is suffered or done: the shad-ows of the night were broad and black.
-- He had now to attend while Mr. Stryver fitted the prisoner's case on the jury, like a compact suit of clothes; showing them how the patriot, Barsad, was a hired spy and traitor, an unblush-ing trafficker in blood, and one of the greatest scoundrels upon earth since accursed Judas which he certainly did look rather like.
-- I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The matter of which it was built was just as soft, and formed similar towers, and domes, and pil-lars, transparent and rocking in the thin air; while above his head our earth was rolling like a large fiery ball.
-- This happened every year; and the young Fir Tree, that had now grown to a very comely size, trembled at the sight; for the magnificent great trees fell to the earth with noise and cracking, the branches were lopped off, and the trees looked long and bare; they were hardly to be recognised; and then they were laid in carts, and the horses dragged them out of the wood.
-- The axe struck deep intothe very pith; the Tree fell to the earth with a sigh; he felt a pang it was like a swoon; he could not think of happi-ness, for he was sorrowful at being separated from his home, from the place where he had sprung up.
-- 'The earth is hard and covered with snow; men cannot plant me now, and therefore I have been put up here under shelter till the spring-time comes!How thoughtful that is!How kind man is, after all!If it only were not so dark here, and so ter-ribly lonely!Not even a hare!And out in the woods it was so pleasant, when the snow was on the ground, and the hare leaped by; yes even when he jumped over me; but I did not like it then!It is really terribly lonely here!'
-- She there-fore went out in the garden, stretched out.her crooked stick towards the rose-bushes, which, beautifully as they were blowing, all sank into the earth and no one could tell where they had stood.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The earth in the cart, with which the seed was mixed, was not crushed to powder, but crusted together or adhering in clods.
-- Only it's a work to get about!You drag a ton of earth on your shoes."
-- "Why is it you have earth that's not sifted?"
-- "Well, we crumble it up," answered Vassily, taking up some seed and rolling the earth in his palms.
-- He watched how Mishka strode along, swinging the huge clods of earth that clung to each foot; and getting off his horse, he took the sieve from Vassily and started sowing himself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the breeze came skimming the earth the sledge seemed to be lifted off the ground by its sails.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His need of her was an obsession, making the rest of earth absurd and worthless.
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：
-- But he scraped the earth about it and pressed it at the edges with his foot.
-- But what on earth was it I wanted?
-- The man of ge-nius is one of millions, and the great geniuses, the crown of humanity, appear on earth perhaps one in many thousand millions.
-- A man in health has, of course, no reason to see them, because he is above all a man of this earth and is bound for the sake of completeness and order to live only in this life.
-- 'It was my mistake, too, not to have given them money,' he thought, as he returned dejectedly to Lebeziatnikov's room, 'and why on earth was I such a Jew?
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