Moorland

(n.) Land consisting of a moor or moors.

整理:蒂娜

• The wind sighed low in the firs: all was moorland loneliness and midnight hush. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Far as the shore was, the sound of the surf swept over the intervening moorland, and beat drearily in my ears when I entered the churchyard. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• One led to Mr. Ablewhite's house, and the other to a moorland village some two or three miles off. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• They wandered onward till they reached the nether margin of the heath, where it became marshy and merged in moorland. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Archer acquiesced, and she turned the ponies down Narragansett Avenue, crossed Spring Street and drove out toward the rocky moorland beyond. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The last ray of the sun had already faded from the cloud-edges, and the October night was casting over the moorlands the shadow of her approach. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

霍华德编辑