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：
-- Hawk-eye soon got another enemy within reach of his arm, and with one sweep of his formidable weapon he beat down the slight and inartificial defenses of his antagonist, crushing him to the earth with the blow.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before the barn door strutted the gallant cock, that pattern of a husband, a war-rior and a fine gentleman, clapping his burnished wings and crowing in the pride and gladness of his heart, some-times tearing up the earth with his feet, and then generously calling his ever-hungry family of wives and children to en-joy the rich morsel which he had discovered.
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：
-- I wondered how soon I could decently take my leave, and I asked myself why on earth Mrs. Strickland had allowed me to come.
-- "How on earth did you find out your hotel?"
-- "What on earth do you expect me to say to that?"
-- "Why on earth should I?"
-- "Why on earth didn't you send Strickland packing?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the night the engineer could not dream of descending, and when day broke, even a glimpse of the earth below was intercepted by fog.
-- "Bows and arrows were sufficient for centuries to stain the earth with blood.
-- Then new layers of bruised pyrites were arranged so as to form an immense heap, the exterior of which was covered with earth and grass, several air-holes being left, as if it was a stack of wood which was to be carbonized to make charcoal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Codlin on the other hand, cursed his fate, and all the hollow things of earth (but Punch especially), and limped along with the theatre on his back, a prey to the bitterest chagrin.
-- Having come to the climax, he smacked his lips a great many times, and taking a long hearty sniff of the fragrance that was hovering about, put on the cover again with the air of one whose toils on earth were over.
-- One circumstance troubled Mr Swiveller's mind very much, and that was that the small servant always remained somewhere in the bowels of the earth under Bevis Marks, and never came to the surface unless the single gentleman rang his bell, when she would answer it and immediately disappear again.
-- He looked at her as if she were a spirit she might have been for all the look of earth she had and trembled more and more.
-- Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun came forth again, the earth brightened, and a low but brilliant violet tinged rainbow, broken at one end, appeared in the eastern horizon.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What on earth have you been up to, man?"
-- The whole surface of the earth seemed changed melting and flowing under my eyes.
-- Even through the veil of my confusion the earth seemed very fair.
-- There were no hedges, no signs of proprietary rights, no evidences of agriculture; the whole earth had become a garden.
-- The air was free from gnats, the earth from weeds or fungi; everywhere were fruits and sweet and delightful flowers; brilliant butterflies flew hither and thither.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This mass of fluid is equal to about the quantity of water which would be discharged by all the rivers of the earth in forty thousand years.
-- Then by degrees, in the silurian period, the tops of the mountains began to appear, the islands emerged, then disappeared in partial deluges, reappeared, became settled, formed continents, till at length the earth became geographically arranged, as we see in the present day.
-- At this period the earth sloped downwards; the light took a uniform tint.
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