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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But they twinkled out one by one, without throwing any light on the questions why on earth I was going to play at Miss Havisham's, and what on earth I was expected to play at.
-- I found out within a few hours, and may mention at once, that Mrs. Pocket was the only daughter of a certain quite accidental deceased Knight, who had invented for himself a conviction that his deceased father would have been made a Baronet but for somebody's determined opposition arising out of entirely personal motives,--I forget whose, if I ever knew,--the Sovereign's, the Prime Minister's, the Lord Chancellor's, the Archbishop of Canterbury's, anybody's,--and had tacked himself on to the nobles of the earth in right of this quite supposititious fact.
-- All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.
-- When he asked what should such fellows as he do crawling between earth and heaven, he was encouraged with loud cries of "Hear, hear!"
-- No wisdom on earth could have given me the comfort that I should have derived from their simplicity and fidelity; but I could never, never, undo what I had done.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus war was announced to the Bear, and all four-footed animals were summoned to take part in it, oxen, asses, cows, deer, and every other ani-mal the earth contained.
-- When day broke, and the battle was to begin, all the four-footed animals came running up with such a noise that the earth trembled.
-- 'Now, little mite of a man, do that likewise,' 'Well thrown,' said the tailor, 'but after all the stone came down to earth again; I will throw you one which shall never come back at all,' and he put his hand into his pocket, took out the bird, and threw it into the air.
-- A month passed, and the snow had all disappeared; then another month went by, and all the earth was green.
-- 'Strike down to earth that false judge there, and his constable, and spare not the king who has treat-ed me so ill.' Then the manikin fell on them like lightning, darting this way and that way, and whosoever was so much as touched by his cudgel fell to earth, and did not venture to stir again.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Golbasto Momarem Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue, most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the ex-tremities of the globe; monarch of all monarchs, taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the centre, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princ-es of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as the spring, comfortable as the summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter: his most sublime majesty proposes to the man-mountain, lately arrived at our celestial dominions, the following articles, which, by a solemn oath, he shall be obliged to perform:- '1st, The man-mountain shall not depart from our do-minions, without our license under our great seal.
-- They bury their dead with their heads directly down-ward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven thousand moons they are all to rise again; in which period the earth (which they conceive to be flat) will turn upside down, and by this means they shall, at their resurrection, be found ready standing on their feet.
-- The whole extent of this prince's dominions reaches about six thousand miles in length, and from three to five in breadth: whence I cannot but conclude, that our geogra-phers of Europe are in a great error, by supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California; for it was ever my opinion, that there must be a balance of earth to counter-poise the great continent of Tartary; and therefore they ought to correct their maps and charts, by joining this vast tract of land to the north- west parts of America, wherein I shall be ready to lend them my assistance.
-- Their apprehensions arise from several changes they dread in the celestial bodies: for instance, that the earth, by the continual approaches of the sun towards it, must, in course of time, be absorbed, or swallowed up; that the face of the sun, will, by degrees, be encrusted with its own efflu-via, and give no more light to the world; that the earth very 205narrowly escaped a brush from the tail of the last comet, which would have infallibly reduced it to ashes; and that the next, which they have calculated for one-and-thirty years hence, will probably destroy us.
-- For if, in its perihelion, it should approach within a certain degree of the sun (as by their calculations they have reason to dread) it will receive a degree of heat ten thousand times more intense than that of red hot glowing iron, and in its absence from the sun, carry a blazing tail ten hundred thousand and fourteen miles long, through which, if the earth should pass at the distance of one hundred thousand miles from the nucleus, or main body of the comet, it must in its passage be set on fire, and reduced to ashes: that the sun, daily spending its rays without any nutriment to supply them, will at last be wholly consumed and annihilated; which must be attended with the destruction of this earth, and of all the planets that receive their light from it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There never before was seen on earth such a wonderful hybrid race as was thus produced.
-- What have these pests of the earth been doing to you?
-- Engines at pits' mouths, and lean old horses that had worn the circle of their daily labour into the ground, were alike quiet; wheels had ceased for a short space to turn; and the great wheel of earth seemed to revolve without the shocks and noises of another time.
-- She took a little clod of earth from the broken ground where he had stumbled, and threw it in.
-- It appeared from the little this man said to those about him, which was quickly repeated all over the circle, that the lost man had fallen upon a mass of crumbled rubbish with which the pit was half choked up, and that his fall had been further broken by some jagged earth at the side.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH By Jules Verne TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 MY UNCLE MAKES A GREAT DISCOVERY CHAPTER 2 THE MYSTERIOUS PARCHMENT CHAPTER 3 AN ASTOUNDING DISCOVERY CHAPTER 4 WE START ON THE JOURNEY CHAPTER 5 FIRST LESSONS IN CLIMBING CHAPTER 6 OUR VOYAGE TO ICELAND CHAPTER 7 CONVERSATION AND DISCOVERY CHAPTER 8 THE EIDER-DOWN HUNTER--OFF AT LAST CHAPTER 9 OUR START--WE MEET WITH ADVENTURES BY THE WAY CHAPTER 10 TRAVELING IN ICELAND CHAPTER 11 WE REACH MOUNT SNEFFELS--THE "REYKIR" CHAPTER 12 THE ASCENT OF MOUNT SNEFFELS CHAPTER 13 THE SHADOW OF SCARTARIS CHAPTER 14 THE REAL JOURNEY COMMENCES CHAPTER 15 WE CONTINUE OUR DESCENT CHAPTER 16 THE EASTERN TUNNEL CHAPTER 17 DEEPER AND DEEPER--THE COAL MINE CHAPTER 18 THE WRONG ROAD!
-- The very idea of going down to the centre of the earth was simply absurd.
-- Were any such heat to exist, the upper crust of the earth would be shattered to atoms, and the world would be at an end."
-- Was my uncle in his sober senses, and could the interior of the earth be reached?
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