doubt是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 怀疑, 疑虑,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'And as to her answer to me, there's no doubt about that.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He will return to Olympus twelve days hence; I will then go to his mansion paved with bronze and will beseech him; nor do I doubt that I shall be able to persuade him.'
-- Eurypylus sprang upon him, and stripped the armour from his shoulders; but when Alexandrus saw him, he aimed an arrow at him which struck him in the right thigh; the arrow broke, but the point that was left in the wound dragged on the thigh; he drew back, therefore, under cover of his com-rades to save his life, shouting as he did so to the Danaans, 'My friends, princes and counsellors of the Argives, rally to the defence of Ajax who is being overpowered, and I doubt whether he will come out of the fight alive.
-- Meanwhile Hector was waiting with his horses inside the Scaean gates, in doubt whether to drive out again and go on fighting, or to call the army inside the gates.
-- He turned to his trusty comrade Alcimedon and said, 'Alcimedon, keep your horses so close up that I may feel their breath upon my back; I doubt that we shall not stay Hector son of Priam till he has killed us and mounted behind the horses; he will then either spread panic among the ranks of the Achaeans, or himself be killed among the foremost.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "No doubt you are a bit difficult to see in this light, but I got a warrant and it's all correct.
-- No doubt there was a slight uneasiness in the air, but people for the most part had the sense to conceal whatever imaginative qualms they experienced.
-- There's not the slightest doubt that I could kill you both and get away quite easily if I wanted to do you understand?
-- It was the only way to cover my trail and no doubt it was insured.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I would not draw lots however, and in the night the sail-or whispered to Helmar again and again, and I sat in the bows with my clasp-knife in my hand, though I doubt if I had the stuff in me to fight; and in the morning I agreed to Helmar's proposal, and we handed halfpence to find the odd man.
-- There was no mistake this time in the quality of the dim, broken sounds; no doubt at all of their source.
-- Some of these no doubt they could press into their service against me if need arose.
-- But, as I say, I was too full of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have never known danger may doubt it) too desperate to die.
-- I have no doubt you have heard of these things?'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'O Akela, and ye the Free People,' he purred, 'I have no right in your assembly, but the Law of the Jungle says that if there is a doubt which is not a killing matter in regard to a new cub, the life of that cub may be bought at a price.
-- 'Beyond doubt then it is no small thing that takes two such hunters leaders in their own jungle I am certain on the trail of the Bandar-log,' Kaa replied courteously, as he swelled with curiosity.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Even so,' replied the stranger, making diligent use of his triangular castor, to produce a circulation in the close air of the woods, and leaving his hearers in doubt to which of the young man's questions he responded; when, however, he had cooled his face, and recovered his breath, he continued, 'I hear you are riding to William Henry; as I am journey-ing thitherward myself, I concluded good company would seem consistent to the wishes of both parties.'
-- he said, feeling the utter helplessness of doubt in such a pressing strait; 'desert me not, for God's sake!remain to defend those I escort, and freely name your own reward!'
-- The longer his nap lasts the better it will be for him, as I doubt whether he can find a proper cover for such a shape on these rocks; and singing won't do any good with the Iroquois.'
-- I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlement, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.
-- The melancholy air, the hour, together with the vast frame of the man who thus leaned, musing, against the English ramparts, left no doubt as to his person in the mind of the observant spectator.
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 think he was beginning to doubt it."
-- It was characteristic of him to display geniality with anyone who showed a disinclination to meet him, and the coolness of my greeting can have left him in little doubt of that.
-- I never heard him speak of those whose work had a certain analogy with his own of Cezanne, for instance, or of Van Gogh; and I doubt very much if he had ever seen their pictures.
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