enough是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. (for) 足够的n. 足够, 充分ad. 足够地,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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When the dog had eaten this too, the sparrow said to him, 'Well, my good friend, have you had enough now?'
-- When that was eaten, the sparrow asked him whether he had had enough now.
-- 'Not wretch enough yet!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court; which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.
-- By the same computation, they provided me with sheets, blankets, and coverlets, tolerable enough for one who had been so long inured to hardships.
-- This inventory I afterwards translated into English, and is, word for word, as follows: 'Imprimis: In the right coat-pocket of the great man-mountain' (for so I interpret the words quinbus flestrin,) 'after the strictest search, we found only one great piece of coarse-cloth, large enough to be a foot-cloth for your maj-esty's chief room of state.
-- From the left fob he took out a net almost large enough for a fisherman, but contrived to open and shut like a purse, and served him for the same use: we found therein several massy pieces of yellow metal, which, if they be real gold, must be of immense value.
-- Of these trees I made two stools, each about three feet high, and strong enough to bear my weight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Enough to give a baby cold,' Mrs. Gradgrind considered.
-- Mrs. Gradgrind, weakly smiling, and giving no other sign of vitality, looked (as she always did) like an indifferently executed transparency of a small female figure, without enough light behind it.
-- As soon as I was big enough to run away, of course I ran away.
-- I declare you're enough to make one regret ever having had a family at all.
-- I am sure you have enough to do, if that's what you want.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was enough to drive one mad.
-- The earth was enough for me, and no ambitious desire to soar ever entered my mind.
-- Here and there was a strip of discolored turf, like an old worn-out bit of woolen carpet; and now and then a bit of kitchen garden, in which grew potatoes, cabbage, and lettuce, almost diminutive enough to suggest the idea of Lilliput.
-- The hamper was not very large but tolerably satisfactory, for I knew that in concentrated essence of meat and biscuit there was enough to last six months.
-- We had, however, an ample supply of gourds, and my uncle counted on finding water, and enough to fill them, as soon as we commenced our downward journey.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But even so much official uniform as the clergyman wore was enough to obscure entirely the fact that he was a man like any other man.
-- Which was enough to keep them connected.
-- And enough to give her a subtle sort of self-assurance, something blind and a little arrogant.
-- He never held forth; his ideas were really not vital enough for it, he was too confused and emotional.
-- The en-gine isn't really strong enough for the uphill work.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The bars were wide enough apart to admit of his thrusting his arm through to the elbow; and so he held on negligently, for his greater ease.
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