strange是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 奇怪的, 奇异的; 陌生的, 生疏的; 外地的,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《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In this strange scene, and with these strange spectres flitting about him, Arthur Clennam looked on at the preparations as if they were part of a dream.
-- Little Dorrit stopping and looking back, an excited figure of a strange kind bounced against them (still crying 'little mother'), fell down, and scattered the contents of a large basket, filled with potatoes, in the mud.
-- Mr Barnacle tapped his fingers on the table, and, as if he were now sitting for his portrait to a new and strange artist, appeared to say to his visitor, 'If you will be good enough to take me with my present lofty expression, I shall feel obliged.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I only came here because I don't know many people and felt rather strange at first, you know.'
-- Meg was Amy's confidante and monitor, and by some strange attraction of opposites Jo was gentle Beth's.
-- For a minute Jo stood still with a strange feeling in her heart, then she re-solved to go on, but something held and turned her round, just in time to see Amy throw up her hands and go down, with a sudden crash of rotten ice, the splash of water, and a cry that made Jo's heart stand still with fear.
-- A strange sense of helplessness fell upon the girls as the gray bonnet vanished round the corner, and despair seized them when a few minutes later Miss Crocker appeared, and said she'd come to dinner.
-- Everything seemed very strange when they went down, so dim and still outside, so full of light and bustle within.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I told him that I never liked to sleep two in a bed; that if I should ever do so, it would depend upon who the harpooneer might be, and that if he (the landlord) really had no other place for me, and the harpooneer was not decidedly objectionable, why rather than wander further about a strange town on so bitter a night, I would put up with the half of any decent man's blanket.
-- And when it comes to sleeping with an unknown stranger, in a strange inn, in a strange town, and that stranger a harpooneer, then your objections indefinitely multiply.
-- All these strange antics were accompanied by still stranger guttural noises from the devotee, who seemed to be praying in a sing-song or else singing some pagan psalmody or other, during which his face twitched about in the most unnatural manner.
-- A pretty pickle, truly, thought I; abed here in a strange house in the broad day, with a cannibal and a tomahawk!
-- But the side ladder was not the only strange feature of the place, borrowed from the chaplain's former sea-farings.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was alone in a strange place; and we all know how chilled and desolate the best of us will sometimes feel in such a situation.
-- 'Lord, Lord!Well, it is strange that I who gave birth to her, and was a woman then, should be alive and merry now, and she lying there: so cold and stiff!Lord, Lord!--to think of it; it's as good as a play--as good as a play!'
-- I felt a strange presentiment from the very first, that that audacious young savage would come to be hung!'
-- HE ENCOUNTERS ON THE ROAD A STRANGE SORT OF YOUNG GENTLEMAN Oliver reached the stile at which the by-path terminated; and once more gained the high-road.
-- In others, he would stand about the inn-yards, and look mournfully at every one who passed: a proceeding which generally terminated in the landlady's ordering one of the post-boys who were lounging about, to drive that strange boy out of the place, for she was sure he had come to steal something.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'You are a very strange creature by way of a friend! al-ways wanting me to play and sing before anybody and everybody!If my vanity had taken a musical turn, you would have been invaluable; but as it is, I would really rather not sit down before those who must be in the habit of hear-ing the very best performers.'
-- It was very strange that he should come to Longbourn instead of to Lucas Lodge; it was also very inconvenient and exceed-ingly troublesome.
-- 'No; it would have been strange if they had; but I make no doubt they often talk of it between themselves.
-- Her coming there was the most unfortunate, the most ill-judged thing in the world!How strange it must appear to him!In what a dis-graceful light might it not strike so vain a man!It might seem as if she had purposely thrown herself in his way again!Oh!why did she come?
-- 'How strange this is!And for THIS we are to be thankful.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Upon that I told him some of my story; at the end of which he burst out into a strange kind of passion: 'What had I done,' says he, 'that such an unhappy wretch should come into my ship?
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