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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day, when I was suggesting this theory to Captain Nemo, he replied coldly:"The earth does not want new continents, but new men."
-- The earth seemed covered with verdure from the shore to the summits in the interior, that were crowned by Mount Kapogo, 476 feet high.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The atmosphere was grey and translucent, the birds sang sharply on the young twigs, the earth would be quickening and hastening in growth.
-- So we cover the earth with foulness; life is a blotch of labour, like insects scurrying in filth, so that your collier can have a pianoforte in his parlour, and you can have a butler and a motor-car in your up-to-date house, and as a nation we can sport the Ritz, or the Empire, Gaby Deslys and the Sunday newspapers.
-- Getting so many more thousands of tons of coal out of the earth every day.
-- "I would die like a shot, to know that the earth would really be cleaned of all the people.
-- The earth was spread with darkness, like lacquer, overhead was a pale sky, all primrose, and the lake was pale as milk in one part.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On that bleak hill top the earth was hard with a black frost, and the air made me shiver through every limb.
-- And that minx, Catherine Linton, or Earnshaw, or however she was called she must have been a changeling wicked little soul!She told me she had been walking the earth these twenty years: a just punishment for her mortal transgressions, I've no doubt!
-- Every Linton on the face of the earth might melt into nothing before I could consent to forsake Heathcliff.
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