fine是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 晴朗的, 美好的, 细致的v. /n. 罚金, 罚款,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:
-- 'Why,' said the cock, 'I was just now saying that we should have fine weather for our washing-day, and yet my mistress and the cook don't thank me for my pains, but threaten to cut off my head tomorrow, and make broth of me for the guests that are coming on Sunday!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The emperor lays on the table three fine silken threads of six inches long; one is blue, the oth-er red, and the third green.
-- She made me seven shirts, and some other linen, of as fine cloth as could be got, which indeed was coarser than sackcloth; and these she constantly washed for me with her own hands.
-- I then took a piece of fine wood, and cut it like the back of a comb, making several holes in it at equal distances with as small a needle as I could get from Glumdalclitch.
-- I desired the queen's 154 Gulliver's Travelswoman to save for me the combings of her majesty's hair, whereof in time I got a good quantity; and consulting with my friend the cabinet-maker, who had received general or-ders to do little jobs for me, I directed him to make two chair-frames, no larger than those I had in my box, and to bore little holes with a fine awl, round those parts where I designed the backs and seats; through these holes I wove the strongest hairs I could pick out, just after the manner of cane chairs in England.
-- Before I went to sleep, I gave him to understand that I had some valuable furniture in my box, too good to be lost: a fine hammock, a handsome field-bed, two chairs, a table, and a cabinet; that my closet was hung on all sides, or rather quilted, with silk and cotton; that if he would let one of the crew bring my closet into his cabin, I would open it there before him, and show him my goods.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- These attributes of Coketown were in the main inseparable from the work by which it was sustained; against them were to be set off, comforts of life which found their way all over the world, and elegancies of life which made, we will not ask how much of the fine lady, who could scarcely bear to hear the place mentioned.
-- 'It would be a fine thing to be you, Miss Louisa!'
-- 'Pooh, pooh!Don't you talk nonsense, my good fellow,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'about things you don't understand; and don't you call the Institutions of your country a muddle, or you'll get yourself into a real muddle one of these fine mornings.
-- 'I must kiss the hand,' said she, 'that has worked in this fine factory for a dozen year!'
-- Lastly, she was guardian over a little armoury of cutlasses and carbines, arrayed in vengeful order above one of the official chimney-pieces; and over that respectable tradition never to be separated from a place of business claiming to be wealthy a row of fire-buckets vessels calculated to be of no physical utility on any occasion, but observed to exercise a fine moral influence, almost equal to bullion, on most beholders.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Which gives a fine idea of the central heat.
-- It consists of a coil of copper wire, insulated by being covered with silk, surrounded by another coil of fine wire, also insulated, in which a momentary current is induced when a current is passed through the inner coil from a voltaic battery.
-- My uncle had also been careful to lay in a goodly supply of tobacco, several flasks of very fine gunpowder, boxes of tinder, besides a large belt crammed full of notes and gold.
-- Blessings on the tempest!It brought us safely back to the very spot from which fine weather would have driven us forever.
-- "My fine fellow, do you or do you not mean to speak?"
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:
-- It was a fine November...day fine for Wragby.
-- In her room he did glance vaguely round at the fine German reproductions of Renoir and C芒聙職zanne.
-- You'll never re-ally do what you should do, with a fine mind such as yours.
-- Because I infinitely prefer the spontaneous spite to the con-cocted sugaries; now they ARE poison; when I begin saying what a fine fellow Clifford is, etc., etc., then poor Clifford is to be pitied.
-- No, my fine fellow, I don't believe in it at all!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Through the heart of the town a deadly sewer ebbed and flowed, in the place of a fine fresh river.
-- As there are degrees of hardness in the hardest metal, and shades of colour in black itself, so, even in the asperity of Mrs Clennam's demeanour towards all the rest of humanity and towards Little Dorrit, there was a fine gradation.
-- Indeed the dancing-master was so proud of it, and so wishful to display it before he left to a few select friends among the collegians, that at six o'clock on a certain fine morning, a minuet de la cour came off in the yard the college-rooms being of too confined proportions for the purpose in which so much ground was covered, and the steps were so conscientiously executed, that the dancing-master, having to play the kit besides, was thoroughly blown.
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