variety是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 种种, 多种多样; 种类, 品种,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The disposition of -everything in the rooms, from the largest object to the least; the arrangement of colours, the elegant variety and contrast obtained by thrift in trifles, by delicate hands, clear eyes, and good sense; were at once so pleasant in themselves, and so expressive of their originator, that, as Mr. Lorry stood looking about him, the very chairs and tables seemed to ask him, with something of that peculiar expression which he knew so well by this time, whether he approved?
-- 217XIV The Honest Tradesman o the eyes of Mr. Jeremiah Cruncher, sitting on his stool Tin Fleet-street with his grisly urchin beside him, a vast number and variety of objects in movement were every day presented.
-- For such variety of reasons, Tellson's was at that time, as to French intelligence, a kind of High Exchange; and this was so well known to the pub-lic, and the inquiries made there were in consequence so numerous, that Tellson's sometimes wrote the latest news out in a line or so and posted it in the Bank windows, for all who ran through Temple Bar to read.
-- And yet there is not in France, with its rich variety of soil and climate, a blade, a leaf, a root, a sprig, a peppercorn, which will grow to maturity un-der conditions more certain than those that have produced this horror.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Metrov told the chairman what he had already told Levin, and Levin made the same remarks on his news that he had already made that morning, but for the sake of variety he expressed also a new opinion which had only just struck him.
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:
-- There was no great variety of wines, nor was there Ma-deira; but wine there was.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This part of thebusiness, however, did not last long; for the young rascal, beingexpert at a variety of feints and dodges, of which my aunt had no 199conception, soon went whooping away, leaving some deepimpressions of his nailed boots in the flower-beds, and taking hisdonkey in triumph with him.
-- The hair-breadth turns and twists we made, drew downupon us a variety of speeches from the people standing about,which were not always complimentary; but my aunt drove on withperfect indifference, and I dare say would have taken her own waywith as much coolness through an enemy's country.
-- After I had written to my aunt and told her of my fortunatemeeting with my admired old schoolfellow, and my acceptance ofhis invitation, we went out in a hackney-chariot, and saw aPanorama and some other sights, and took a walk though theMuseum, where I could not help observing how much Steerforthknew, on an infinite variety of subjects, and of how little accounthe seemed to make his knowledge.
-- After some pokingabout with this instrument, in the course of which his face assumeda variety of distracted expressions, Mr. Barkis poked it against abox, an end of which had been visible to me all the time.
-- When we had had our laugh quite out, which was after some time,he told me that Miss Mowcher had quite an extensive connection,and made herself useful to a va- riety of people in a variety ofways.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'No great variety of faces for you,' said Emma.
-- 'So seldom that any negligence or blunder appears!So seldom that a letter, among the thousands that are constant-ly passing about the kingdom, is even carried wrong and not one in a million, I suppose, actually lost!And when one considers the variety of hands, and of bad hands too, that are to be deciphered, it increases the wonder.'
-- A variety of evils crossed his 426 Emmamind.
-- Wood-house, who had already taken his little round in the highest part of the gardens, where no damps from the river were imagined even by him, stirred no more; and his daughter resolved to remain with him, that Mrs. Weston might be persuaded away by her husband to the exercise and variety which her spirits seemed to need.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is a sort of attenuated variety of Ixion's punishment, and contributes a dismal chapter to the history of gaols.
-- He seemed to be of too strange and mysterious a nature to belong to any variety among those of popular nomenclature.
-- Travellers for the variety tourist had hardly developed into a distinct species at this date sometimes said in passing, when they cast their eyes up to the sign-bearing tree, that artists were fond of representing the signboard hanging thus, but that they themselves had never before noticed so perfect an instance in actual working order.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He passed his younger days perpetually occupied by the affairs of his country; a variety of circumstances had prevented his marrying early, nor was it until the decline of life that he became a husband and the father of a family.
-- No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of suc-cess.
-- As night advanced I placed a variety of combustibles around the cottage, and after having destroyed every vestige of cul-tivation in the garden, I waited with forced impatience until the moon had sunk to commence my operations.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All the people Ellen had known in Savannah might have been cast from the same mold, so similar were their viewpoints and traditions, but here was a variety of people.
-- Where vacant lots had been a year before, there were now factories turningout harness, saddles and shoes, ordnance-supply plants making rifles and cannon, rolling mills and foundries producingiron rails and freight cars to replace those destroyed by the Yankees, and a variety of industries manufacturing spurs,bridle bits, buckles, tents, buttons, pistols and swords.
-- Visitors added excitement and variety tothe slow-moving Southern life and they were always welcome.
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