nonsense是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 胡说, 废话,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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He talked to her as people commonly do talk in society--all sorts of nonsense, but nonsense to which he could not help attaching a special meaning in her case.
-- It's nonsense to pretend that life won't let one, that the past won't let one.
-- "How absurd!What absurd nonsense you are talking!"
-- After accompanying Betsy to the outside hall, once more kissing her hand above the glove, at the point where the pulse beats, and murmuring to her such unseemly nonsense that she did not know whether to laugh or be angry, Stepan Arkadyevitch went to his sister.
-- The day after his conversation with Karenin, Stepan Arkadyevitch went to see her, and felt so youthful that in this jesting flirtation and nonsense he recklessly went so far that he did not know how to extricate himself, as unluckily he was so far from being attracted by her that he thought her positively disagreeable.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When he had, as they put it, "cut out his nonsense and buckled down to work," he had won the admiration of Dr. Silva and all the Good Students, especially Angus Duer and the Reverend Ira Hinkley.
-- They parted at four, tearfully swearing to meet again, in Minnesota or Stockholm, in Rio or on the southern seas, and Martin started for Wheatsylvania to put an end to all this nonsense of allowing people to be ill. And the great god Sondelius had slain Dean Silva, as Silva had slain Gottlieb, Gottlieb had slain "Encore" Edwards the playful chemist, Edwards had slain Doc Vickerson, and Vickerson had slain the minister's son who had a real trapeze in his barn.
-- All nonsense to go on having plague.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Don't we talk nonsense ourselves?
-- 'He is raving,' Razumihin cried tipsily, 'or how would he dare!To-morrow all this nonsense will be over 芒聙娄 to-day he certainly did drive him away.
-- If only their nonsense were their own, but as it is 芒聙娄' 'Listen!'
-- 'On the way home I talked a lot of drunken nonsense to him 芒聙娄 all sorts of things 芒聙娄 and amongst them that you were afraid that he 芒聙娄 might become insane.'
-- 'What nonsense he is talking!Why, you are in a senti-mental mood to-day, are you?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- observed my mother, rousing herself from areverie, 'what nonsense you talk!'
-- 'It's so stupid at home,' she replied, 'and Miss Murdstone is soabsurd!She talks such nonsense about its being necessary for theday to be aired, before I come out.
-- What the Admiralty was to me that day; what nonsense I made ofour case in my mind, as I listened to it; how I saw 'DORA'engraved upon the blade of the silver oar which they lay upon thetable, as the emblem of that high jurisdiction, and how I felt whenMr. Spenlow went home without me (I had had an insane hopethat he might take me back again), as if I were a mariner myself,and the ship to which I belonged had sailed away and left me on adesert island; I shall make no fruitless effort to describe.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All manner of solemn nonsense was talked on the subject, but I believed none of it.
-- He will be here this eve-ning, I dare say, and then I will give it him back, and some nonsense or other will pass between us, and you shall not be committed. Your soft eyes shall chuse their own time for beaming.
-- There was certainly no harm in his travelling sixteen miles twice over on such an errand; but there was an air of foppery and nonsense in it which she could not approve.
-- What nonsense one talks, Miss Woodhouse, when hard at work, if one talks at all; your real workmen, I suppose, hold their tongues; but we gentlemen labourers if we get hold of a word Miss Fairfax said something about conjecturing.
-- There is no admiration be-tween them, I do assure you; and the appearances which have caught you, have arisen from some peculiar circum-stances feelings rather of a totally different nature it is impossible exactly to explain: there is a good deal of nonsense in it but the part which is capable of being com-municated, which is sense, is, that they are as far from any attachment or admiration for one another, as any two be-ings in the world can be.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- By nonsense he meant fancy; and truly it is probable she was as free from any alloy of that nature, as any human being not arrived at the perfection of an absolute idiot, ever was.
-- Never breathe a word of such destructive nonsense any more.
-- Accordingly, they went down to the drawing-room, where the esteemed lady with no nonsense about her, was recumbent as usual, while Sissy worked beside her.
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