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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I hear sobs; and,standing apart among the lookerson, I see that good and faithfulservant, whom of all the people upon earth I love the best, andunto whom my childish heart is certain that the Lord will one daysay, 'Well done.'
-- It is over, and the earth is filled in, and we turn to come away.
-- 'Why, what on earth does she do here?'
-- What time Miss Mills sat looking at the moon, murmuring versesand recalling, I suppose, the ancient days when she and earth hadanything in common.
-- I have 514since seen reason to believe that there was nothing on earth toprevent my going in at the front door, and being shown up into thedrawing-room, except Miss Mills's love of the romantic andmysterious.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Man's boasted power and freedom, all are flown; Lord of the earth and sea, he bends a slave, And woman, lovely woman, reigns alone.
-- Lord of the earth and sea, he bends a slave, And woman, lovely woman, reigns alone.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The vast arch of cloud above was strangely low, and formed as it were the roof of a large dark cavern, gradually sinking in upon its floor; for the instinctive thought was that the snow lining the heavens and that encrusting the earth would soon unite into one mass without any intervening stratum of air at all.
-- In other directions, the fields and sky were so much of one colour by the snow, that it was difficult in a hasty glance to tell whereabouts the horizon occurred; and in general there was here, too, that before-mentioned preternatural inversion of light and shade which attends the prospect when the garish brightness commonly in the sky is found on the earth, and the shades of earth are in the sky.
-- I cannot say how far above every other idea and object on earth you seem to me nobody knows God only knows how much you are to me!"
-- It was still the beaming time of evening, though night was stealthily making itself visible low down upon the ground, the western lines of light raking the earth without alighting upon it to any extent, or illuminating the dead levels at all.
-- Beams of light caught from the low sun's rays, above, around, in front of her, well-nigh shut out earth and heaven all emitted in the marvellous evolutions of Troy's reflecting blade, which seemed everywhere at once, and yet nowhere specially.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do you know, I would sooner scratch the earth with my nails for a living, madame, than part with that.
-- He wished the earth would open and swallow him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You may conceive my astonishment on hearing such a 15question addressed to me from a man on the brink of de-struction and to whom I should have supposed that my vessel would have been a resource which he would not have exchanged for the most precious wealth the earth can afford.
-- 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 first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dear-est smiles.
-- Nature decayed around me, and the sun became heatless; rain and snow poured around me; mighty rivers were frozen; the surface of the earth was hard and chill, and bare, and I found no shelter.
-- The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food; but a circumstance that happened when I arrived on the confines of Switzerland, when the sun had recovered its warmth and the earth again began to look green, confirmed in an espe-cial manner the bitterness and horror of my feelings.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For here were no long, straight furrows, such as could be seen in the yellow clayfields of the flat middle Georgia country or in the lush black earth of the coastal plantations.
-- The rolling foothillcountry of north Georgia was plowed in a million curves to keep the rich earth from washing down into the riverbottoms.
-- The warm damp balminess of springencompassed her sweetly with the moist smells of new-plowed earth and all the fresh green things pushing up to theair.
-- Across the road would be new rail fences, inclosing fat cattle andblooded horses, and the red earth that rolled down the hillside to the rich river bottom land would gleam white aseiderdown in the sun cotton; acres and acres of cotton!The fortunes of the O'Haras would rise again.
-- Through the window Scarlett couldsee the bright riot of the twin lanes of daffodils bordering the graveled driveway and the golden masses of yellowjessamine spreading flowery sprangles modestly to the earth like crinolines.
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