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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However, I did not act quite so hastily as the first heat of my resolution prompted; but I took my mother at a time when I thought her a little more pleasant than ordinary, and told her that my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle to anything with resolution enough to go through with it, and my father had better give me his consent than force me to go without it; that I was now eighteen years old, which was too late to go apprentice to a trade or clerk to an attorney; that I was sure if I did I should never serve out my time, but I should certainly run away from my master before my time was out, and go to sea; and if she would speak to my father to let me go one voyage abroad, if I came home again, and did not like it, I would go no more; and I would promise, by a double diligence, to recover the time that I had lost.
-- All this while the storm increased, and the sea went very high, though nothing like what I have seen many times since; no, nor what I saw a few days after; but it was enough to affect me then, who was but a young sailor, and had nev-er known anything of the matter.
-- 'But,' said I, 'you swim well enough to reach to the shore, and the sea is calm; make the best of your way to shore, and I will do you no harm; but if you come near the boat I'll shoot you through the head, for I am re-solved to have my liberty;' so he turned himself about, and swam for the shore, and I make no doubt but he reached it with ease, for he was an excellent swimmer.
-- and the foolish boy was frighted out of his wits, thinking it must needs be some of his master's ships sent to pursue us, but I knew we were far enough out of their reach.
-- The generous treatment the captain gave me I can nev-er enough remember: he would take nothing of me for my passage, gave me twenty ducats for the leopard's skin, and forty for the lion's skin, which I had in my boat, and caused everything I had in the ship to be punctually delivered to me; and what I was willing to sell he bought of me, such as the case of bottles, two of my guns, and a piece of the lump of beeswax - for I had made candles of the rest: in a word, I made about two hundred and twenty pieces of eight of all my cargo; and with this stock I went on shore in the Bra-zils.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The prospect of four thousand a-year, in addition to his present income, besides the remaining half of his own mother's fortune, warmed his heart, and made him feel capable of generosity. "Yes, he would give them three thousand pounds: it would be liberal and handsome!It would be enough to make them completely easy.
-- No one, at least, can think I have not done enough for them: even themselves, they can hardly expect more."
-- It was enough for her that he appeared to be amiable, that he loved her daughter, and that Elinor returned the partiality.
-- "Of his sense and his goodness," continued Elinor, "no one can, I think, be in doubt, who has seen him often enough to engage him in unreserved conversation.
-- You know enough of him to do justice to his solid worth.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Neither was wise enough to be sure of the working of the mind of the other.
-- Anything was good enough so long as it paid--say, five dollars a week to begin with.
-- She would get in one of the great shops and do well enough until--well, until something happened.
-- At last she yielded enough to ask Hanson.
-- By the time she was dressed he was gone, and she, Minnie, and the baby ate together, the latter being just old enough to sit in a high chair and disturb the dishes with a spoon.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There warn't a window to it big enough for a dog to get through.
-- I got under the table and raised the blanket, and went to work to saw a section of the big bot-tom log out big enough to let me through.
-- After supper pap took the jug, and said he had enough whisky there for two drunks and one delirium tremens.
-- While we laid off after breakfast to sleep up, both of us being about wore out, I got to thinking that if I could fix up some way to keep pap and the widow from trying to follow me, it would be a certainer thing than trust- ing to luck to get far enough off before they missed me; you see, all kinds of things might happen.
-- Nine logs was enough for one time; he must shove right over to town and sell.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Will you be good enough to give me a bit of bread?
-- That poor man certainly deserves it; for, after all, isn't he in his shirt sleeves because he was good enough to buy a book for me?
-- "They are only good enough to light a fire with."
-- "If I have enough breath left with which to reach that little house, I may be saved," he said to himself.
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