trouble是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 烦恼; 动乱; 疾病; 故障; 辛苦v. (使) 烦恼,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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Many a time have you slobbered your wine in baby helplessness over my shirt; I had infinite trouble with you, but I knew that heaven had vouchsafed me no offspring of my own, and I made a son of you, Achilles, that in my hour of need you might protect me.
-- You ought to help me rather in troubling those that trouble me; be king as much as I am, and share like honour with myself; the others shall take my answer; stay here yourself and sleep comfortably in your bed; at daybreak we will con-sider whether to remain or go.'
-- I cannot however refrain from blaming Menelaus, much as I love him and respect him and I will say so plainly, even at the risk of offending you for sleeping and leaving all this trouble to yourself.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If the straw makes trouble put it down in the bill."
-- I had a little trouble finding it again.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The human shape I can get now, al-most with ease, so that it is lithe and graceful, or thick and strong; but often there is trouble with the hands and the claws, painful things, that I dare not shape too freely.
-- But it is in the subtle grafting and reshaping one must needs do to the brain that my trouble lies.
-- I had not thought before of the pain and trouble that came to these poor victims after they had passed from Moreau's hands.
-- They were wretched in themselves; the old animal hate moved them to trouble one another; the Law held them back from a brief hot struggle and a decisive end to their natural animosities.
-- The riot rose and fell; I heard heavy blows and the splintering smash of wood, but it did not trouble me then.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This time, if I have any eye-sight, they have pecked down trouble for themselves, for Baloo is no fledg-ling and Bagheera can, as I know, kill more than goats.'
-- 'The trouble is this, Kaa.
-- But they fell to fighting on the road, and it was too much trouble to go back with what was left of the fruit.
-- One night he slid down from the post and slipped in between the elephants and threw up the loose end of a rope, which had dropped, to a driver who was trying to get a purchase on the leg of a kicking young calf (calves always give more trouble than full-grown animals).
-- The next few days were spent in getting the elephants to-gether, in walking the newly caught wild elephants up and down between a couple of tame ones to prevent them giv-ing too much trouble on the downward march to the plains, and in taking stock of the blankets and ropes and things that had been worn out or lost in the forest.
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:
-- If you had daylight, it would be worth the trouble to step up on the height of this rock, and look at the perversity of the water.
-- 'Had I been conscious that Monsieur Montcalm was mas-ter of the English, I should have spared myself the trouble of so awkward a translation,' said the vexed Duncan, dryly; remembering instantly his recent by-play with Munro.
-- Then Magua, as if recalled to such a recollection, by the allusion to the mas-sacre, demanded: 'Does my prisoner give trouble to my brothers?'
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:
-- He shall be no trouble to you.
-- Nothing was too much trouble for him.
-- It was a sordid business, and I was not inclined to trouble myself with it further.
-- Then Ata had a baby, and the old woman who came up to help her through her trouble stayed on.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Pencroft, more experienced, did not think so, although he was not a man to trouble himself about a small or great grievance.
-- Neb, in his delight at having found his master, did not listen, or rather, did not care to trouble himself with what Pencroft was saying.
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