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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, with all this fine fancy business and rearing, which must be very bad for your hocks, what do you do?'
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:
-- Ay, lady, the fine cobweb-looking cloth you wear at your throat is coarse, and like a fishnet, to little spots I can show you, where the river fabricates all sorts of images, as if having broke loose from order, it would try its hand at everything.
-- 'Let them burn their powder,' said the deliberate scout, while bullet after bullet whizzed by the place where he se-curely lay; 'there will be a fine gathering of lead when it is over, and I fancy the imps will tire of the sport afore these old stones cry out for mercy!Uncas, boy, you waste the ker-nels by overcharging; and a kicking rifle never carries a true bullet.
-- No, no,' continued the scout, looking back at the dim shore of William Henry, which was now fast receding, and laughing in his own silent but heartfelt manner; 'I have put a trail of water atween us; and unless the imps can make friends with the fishes, and hear who has paddled across their basin this fine morning, we shall throw the length of the Horican behind us before they have made up their minds which path to take.'
-- He watched his slightest movement, however, with eager eyes; and, as he traced the fine outline of his admirably propor-tioned and active frame, he endeavored to persuade himself, that, if the powers of man, seconded by such noble resolu-tion, could bear one harmless through so severe a trial, the youthful captive before him might hope for success in the hazardous race he was about to run.
-- Tamenund held him long at the length of his arm and read every turn in the fine lineaments of his coun-tenance, with the untiring gaze of one who recalled days of happiness.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Before the barn door strutted the gallant cock, that pattern of a husband, a war-rior and a fine gentleman, clapping his burnished wings and crowing in the pride and gladness of his heart, some-times tearing up the earth with his feet, and then generously calling his ever-hungry family of wives and children to en-joy the rich morsel which he had discovered.
-- On a fine autumnal afternoon, Icha-bod, in pensive mood, sat enthroned on the lofty stool from whence he usually watched all the concerns of his little lit-erary realm.
-- He came clattering up to the school-door with an invitation to Ichabod to attend a merry - making or 'quilting-frolic,' to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel's; and having, delivered his message with that air of importance and effort at fine language which a negro is apt to display on petty embassies of the kind, he dashed over the brook, and was seen scampering, away up the Hollow, full of the importance and hurry of his mission.
-- It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance.
-- The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid- heaven.
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:
-- It was a fine day, early in spring, and we were in a good humour.
-- When we left I walked away with Miss Waterford, and the fine day and her new hat persuaded us to saunter through the Park.
-- Her hair, thick and dark like her mother's, fell over her shoulders in fine profusion, and she had the same kindly expression and sedate, untroubled eyes.
-- She was very pale now, and her fine brow was dark and lowering.
-- The day was fine and sunny, and I felt in myself a more acute delight in life.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The floor was covered with fine sand, and taking all in all they were well pleased with it for want of a better.
-- At this moment a flock of birds, of a small size and pretty plumage, with long glancing tails, dispersed themselves among the branches strewing their feathers, which covered the ground as with fine down.
-- The lines were made of fine creepers, fastened one to the other, of the length of fifteen or twenty feet.
-- "As for me," said the sailor, "if I ever grumble at work, my name's not Jack Pencroft, and if you like, captain, we will make a little America of this island!We will build towns, we will establish railways, start telegraphs, and one fine day, when it is quite changed, quite put in order and quite civilized, we will go and offer it to the government of the Union.
-- If the weather is fine I think that I shall obtain the longitude of the island with an approximation of some degrees."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then, the crowds for ever passing and repassing on the bridges (on those which are free of toll at last), where many stop on fine evenings looking listlessly down upon the water with some vague idea that by and by it runs between green banks which grow wider and wider until at last it joins the broad vast sea where some halt to rest from heavy loads and think as they look over the parapet that to smoke and lounge away one's life, and lie sleeping in the sun upon a hot tarpaulin, in a dull, slow, sluggish barge, must be happiness unalloyed and where some, and a very different class, pause with heavier loads than they, remembering to have heard or read in old time that drowning was not a hard death, but of all means of suicide the easiest and best.
-- I save nothing not a penny though I live as you see, but' he laid his hand upon my arm and leant forward to whisper 'she shall be rich one of these days, and a fine lady.
-- Mr Swiveller complied, and looking about him with a propitiatory smile, observed that last week was a fine week for the ducks, and this week was a fine week for the dust; he also observed that whilst standing by the post at the street-corner, he had observed a pig with a straw in his mouth issuing out of the tobacco-shop, from which appearance he augured that another fine week for the ducks was approaching, and that rain would certainly ensue.
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