ease是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 减轻, 放松, 小心移置; 舒适,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 if there was anything I could say that would ease the sense of bitter humiliation which at present tormented Mrs. Strickland.
-- He did not want arm-chairs to sit in; he really felt more at his ease on a kitchen chair.
-- He gulped, and put his hand to his heart to ease its painful beating.
-- She had abandoned the safe shelter of her husband's protection and the comfortable ease of a well-provided establishment for what she could not but see was an extreme hazard.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Daniel Quilp pulled his hat over his brows, climbed on to the desk (which had a flat top) and stretching his short length upon it went to sleep with ease of an old practitioner; intending, no doubt, to compensate himself for the deprivation of last night's rest, by a long and sound nap.
-- He pressed his finger on his lip, and drew the child along by narrow courts and winding ways, nor did he seem at ease until they had left it far behind, often casting a backward look towards it, murmuring that ruin and self-murder were crouching in every street, and would follow if they scented them; and that they could not fly too fast.
-- As they passed onward, parting the boughs that clustered in their way, the serenity which the child had first assumed, stole into her breast in earnest; the old man cast no longer fearful looks behind, but felt at ease and cheerful, for the further they passed into the deep green shade, the more they felt that the tranquil mind of God was there, and shed its peace on them.
-- What I want your grand-daughter for, is to point 'em out to the company; they would be soon learnt, and she has a way with her that people wouldn't think unpleasant, though she does come after me; for I've been always accustomed to go round with visitors myself, which I should keep on doing now, only that my spirits make a little ease absolutely necessary.
-- Dismissing the subject of his downfall with these reflections, which were no doubt very profound, and are indeed not altogether unknown in certain systems of moral philosophy, Mr Swiveller shook off his despondency and assumed the cheerful ease of an irresponsible clerk.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was wooed, but would marry no one, feeling that life with any one of her wooers would be hard, spoiled, as she was, more or less, by the comparative ease she enjoyed in the manor.
-- I wanted to ease my mind," said the lawyer, as if justifying his not speaking about Nekhludoff's case.
-- This temptation of the day before was similar to that of a man who, after a night's sound sleep, feels like taking his ease on the soft mattress for a while, although he knows that it is time to be up and away on an important affair.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what one would expect; for the strength of a man and the softness of a woman, the institution of the family, and the differentiation of occupations are mere militant necessities of an age of physical force.
-- Ages ago, thousands of generations ago, man had thrust his brother man out of the ease and the sunshine.
-- Man had been content to live in ease and delight upon the labours of his fellow-man, had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse, and in the fullness of time Necessity had come home to him.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "The current's less a'ready, sir," said the man Gray, who was sitting in the fore-sheets; "you can ease her off a bit."
-- But you mark me, cap'n, it won't do twice, by thunder!We'll have to do sentry-go and ease off a point or so on the rum.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This precious weapon of American origin could throw with ease a conical projectile of nine pounds to a mean distance of ten miles.
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:
-- Her clothes were always rather odd, and as a rule slip-shod, yet she wore them with a perfect ease and satisfaction.
-- It filled him with ease to see her.
-- She was not at ease till they were in the train again.
-- She was far, far from being at her ease with him.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I snuffed it off, and, very ill at ease under the influence of cold and lingering nausea, sat up and spread open the injured tome on my knee.
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