chin是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 颏, 下巴,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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They were a pretty, buxom quartette, so crammed into the carriage that their hoops and flouncesoverlapped and their parasols nudged and bumped together above their wide leghorn sun hats, crowned with roses anddangling with black velvet chin ribbons.
-- Poor India!It would be bad enough to have pale hair and eyelashes anda hitting chin that meant a stubborn disposition, without being twenty years old and an old maid in the bargain.
-- But the doctor did look like a goat with his gray chin whiskers wagging away at a great rate, and with difficulty shestifled a giggle.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He took my chin in his large hand and turned up my face to have a look at me by the light of the candle.
-- One Sunday when Joe, greatly enjoying his pipe, had so plumed himself on being "most awful dull," that I had given him up for the day, I lay on the earthwork for some time with my chin on my hand, descrying traces of Miss Havisham and Estella all over the prospect, in the sky and in the water, until at last I resolved to mention a thought concerning them that had been much in my head.
-- She was in her chair near the old table, in the old dress, with her two hands crossed on her stick, her chin resting on them, and her eyes on the fire.
-- The Queen of Denmark, a very buxom lady, though no doubt historically brazen, was considered by the public to have too much brass about her; her chin being attached to her diadem by a broad band of that metal (as if she had a gorgeous toothache), her waist being encircled by another, and each of her arms by another, so that she was openly mentioned as "the kettle-drum."
-- But, when we sat by her flickering fire at night, she was most weird; for then, keeping Estella's hand drawn through her arm and clutched in her own hand, she extorted from her, by dint of referring back to what Estella had told her in her regular letters, the names and conditions of the men whom she had fascinated; and as Miss Havisham dwelt upon this roll, with the intensity of a mind mortally hurt and diseased, she sat with her other hand on her crutch stick, and her chin on that, and her wan bright eyes glaring at me, a very spectre.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And now the sun went quite down; the gloomy night came; the 19owl flew into a bush; and a moment after the old fairy came forth pale and meagre, with staring eyes, and a nose and chin that almost met one another.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In this necessity I was forced to swim be-hind, and push the boat forward, as often as I could, with one of my hands; and the tide favouring me, I advanced so far that I could just hold up my chin and feel the ground.
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:
-- And gradually her fingertips knew his cheeks and lips, his jaw and chin and throat perfectly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He sat on one side of the small table, looking keenly at himself on the other side with his chin sunk on his breast, snoring.
-- With that the doctor took a comb from the chimney-piece and stuck his hair upright which appeared to be his way of washing himself produced a professional chest or case, of most abject appearance, from the cupboard where his cup and saucer and coals were, settled his chin in the frowsy wrapper round his neck, and became a ghastly medical scarecrow.
-- 'Altro, altro!Not Ri ' Before John Baptist could finish the name, his comrade had got his hand under his chin and fiercely shut up his mouth.
-- 'Miss Dorrit,' said Sally, hushing the baby from side to side, and laying her chin upon the little hand as it tried to disarrange the gown again, 'came here one afternoon with a bit of writing, telling that how she wished for needlework, and asked if it would be considered any ill-conwenience in case she was to give her address here.'
-- And if ever there were an unfeeling handsome chin that looked as if, for certain, it had never been, in familiar parlance, 'chucked' by the hand of man, it was the chin curbed up so tight and close by that laced bridle.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Jo leaned her chin on her knees in a disconsolate attitude and shook her fist at the reprehensible John.
-- Jo lounged in her favorite low seat, with the grave quiet look which best became her, and Laurie, leaning on the back of her chair, his chin on a level with her curly head, smiled with his friendliest aspect, and nodded at her in the long glass which reflected them both.
-- But he wasn't, for the moment his father peeped at him, Demi's eyes opened, his little chin began to quiver, and he put up his arms, saying with a penitent hiccough, 'Me's dood, now.'
-- 'These bits of lace are fastened under the chin with a rosebud, so.'
-- Jo glanced into them, and when she came to her own, leaned her chin on the edge, and stared absently at the cha-otic collection, till a bundle of old exercise books caught her eye.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On his long, gaunt body, he carried no spare flesh, no superfluous beard, his chin having a soft, economical nap to it, like the worn nap of his broad-brimmed hat.
-- Then, a short, little old body like me, should never undertake to wade out into deep waters with tall, heron-built captains; the water chucks you under the chin pretty quick, and there's a great cry for life-boats.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Withdrawing his other hand from Mr. Bumble's he covered his face with both; and wept until the tears sprung out from between his chin and bony fingers.
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