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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It suggests halloa, my dear fellow, what on earth is the matter?'
-- In a very few hours the brown earth had become ruddy, the brick had changed to granite, and red cows grazed in well-hedged fields where the lush grasses and more luxuriant vegetation spoke of a richer, if a damper, climate.
-- We looked back on it now, the slanting rays of a low sun turning the streams to threads of gold and glowing on the red earth new turned by the plough and the broad tangle of the woodlands.
-- I can still remember your complete indifference as to whether the sun moved round the earth or the earth round the sun.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now how on earth am I to announce a man like that?'
-- I used to watch the line where earth and sky met, and longed to go and seek there the key of all mysteries, thinking that I might find there a new life, perhaps some great city where life should be grander and richer and then it struck me that life may be grand enough even in a prison.'
-- 'Oh, curse it all,' he said; 'what on earth must you go blab-bing for?
-- Once let them begin to shout, however, and nothing on earth should disconcert them.
-- And where on earth did I get the idea that you were an idiot?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus they gathered in a pell-mell of mad confusion, and the earth groaned under the tramp of men as the people sought their places.
-- Even so did the earth groan beneath them as they sped over the plain.
-- Bring, then, two lambs, a white ram and a black ewe, for Earth and Sun, and we will bring a third for Jove.
-- She knew not that both these heroes were already lying under the earth in their own land of Lacedaemon.
-- 'Father Jove,' he cried, 'that rulest in Ida, most glorious in power, and thou oh Sun, that seest and givest ear to all things, Earth and Rivers, and ye who in the realms below chastise the soul of him that has broken his oath, wit-ness these rites and guard them, that they be not vain.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What on earth ought I to do?"
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What on earth was he, man or beast?
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sick and giddy as Mowgli was he could not help enjoying the wild rush, though the glimpses of earth far down below frightened him, and the terrible check and jerk at the end of the swing over noth-ing but empty air brought his heart between his teeth.
-- Sometimes he could see for miles and miles across the still green jungle, as a man on the top of a mast can see for miles across the sea, and then the branches and leaves would lash him across the face, and he and his two guards would be al-most down to earth again.
-- Kala Nag put Little Toomai down, and he bowed to the earth again and went away with his father, and gave the sil-ver four-anna piece to his mother, who was nursing his baby brother, and they all were put up on Kala Nag's back, and the line of grunting, squealing elephants rolled down the hill path to the plains.
-- Once or twice he could feel Kala Nag and all the others surge forward a few strides, and the thumping would change to the crushing sound of juicy green things being bruised, but in a minute or two the boom of feet on hard earth began again.
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：
-- In this manner, pools and ponds, and even the great fresh-water lakes, may be stagnant, as you and I both know they are, having seen them; but when you come to spread water over a great tract, like the sea, where the earth is round, how in reason can the water be quiet?
-- The Dutch landed, and gave my people the fire-water; they drank until the heavens and the earth seemed to meet, and they foolishly thought they had found the Great Spirit.
-- When Magua reached the cluster of lolling savages, who, gorged with their disgusting meal, lay stretched on the earth in brutal indulgence, he commenced speaking with the dignity of an Indian chief.
-- They encountered, grappled, and fell to the earth together.
扩展阅读：