thick是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 厚的, 粗的, 稠的, 浓的ad. 厚, 浓, 密,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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The rain was pouring in torrents, and thick mists hid the summits of the mountains, so that I even saw not the faces of those mighty friends.
-- I looked on the valley beneath; vast mists were rising from the rivers which ran through it and curling in thick wreaths around the opposite mountains, whose summits were hid in the uniform clouds, while rain poured from the dark sky and added to the melancholy impression I received from the objects around me.
-- The lady was dressed in a dark suit and covered with a thick black veil.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Abovethem, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin that skin soprized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns.
-- On either side of her, the twins lounged easily in their chairs, squinting at the sunlight through tall mint-garnishedglasses as they laughed and talked, their long legs, booted to the knee and thick with saddle muscles, crossednegligently.
-- On the hill across the river,the tall white chimneys of the Wilkes, home faded gradually into the darkness of the thick oaks surrounding them, andonly far-off pin points of supper lamps showed that a house was here.
-- Gerald was a small man, little more than five feet tall, but so heavy of barrel and thick of neck that hisappearance, when seated, led strangers to think him a larger man.
-- The lawn, reclaimed from weeds, grew thick withclover and Bermuda grass, and Gerald saw to it that it was well kept.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then, she gave the knife a final smart wipe on the edge of the plaster, and then sawed a very thick round off the loaf: which she finally, before separating from the loaf, hewed into two halves, of which Joe got one, and I the other.
-- "And what coarse hands he has!And what thick boots!"
-- "I don't know what possessed me, Joe," I replied, letting his shirt sleeve go, and sitting down in the ashes at his feet, hanging my head; "but I wish you hadn't taught me to call Knaves at cards Jacks; and I wish my boots weren't so thick nor my hands so coarse."
-- When I got up to my little room and said my prayers, I did not forget Joe's recommendation, and yet my young mind was in that disturbed and unthankful state, that I thought long after I laid me down, how common Estella would consider Joe, a mere blacksmith; how thick his boots, and how coarse his hands.
-- There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now that very day the hundred years were ended; and as the prince came to the thicket he saw nothing but beauti-ful flowering shrubs, through which he went with ease, and they shut in after him as thick as ever.
-- So at last they set out together, and took with them their lit-tle child; and she chose a large hall with thick walls for him 261to sit in while the wedding-torches were lighted; but, un-luckily, no one saw that there was a crack in the door.
-- It so happened that his road one day led through a thick wood, at the end of which was a large castle in a green meadow, and at one of the windows stood an old woman with a very beautiful young lady by her side looking about them.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The cable was about as thick as packthread and the bars of the length and size of a knitting-needle.
-- Once a kite, hover-ing over the garden, made a stoop at me, and if I had not resolutely drawn my hanger, and run under a thick espalier, he would have certainly carried me away in his talons.
-- But one day, I took a thick cudgel, and threw it with all my strength so luckily, at a linnet, that I knocked him down, and seizing him by the neck with both my hands, ran with him in triumph to my nurse.
-- After some time spent in peeping, grin-ning, and chattering, he at last espied me; and reaching one of his paws in at the door, as a cat does when she plays with a mouse, although I often shifted place to avoid him, he at length seized the lappet of my coat (which being made of that country silk, was very thick and strong), and dragged me out.
-- The book I had a mind to read, was put up leaning against the wall: I first mounted to the upper step of the ladder, and turning my face towards the book, began at the top of the page, and so walking to the right and left about eight or ten paces, according to the length of the lines, till I had gotten a little below the level of mine eyes, and then descending gradually till I came to the bottom: after which I mounted again, and began the other page in the same manner, and so turned over the leaf, which I could easily do with both my hands, for it was as thick and stiff as a pasteboard, and in the largest folios not above eighteen or twenty feet long.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said Mr. Sleary, who was troubled with asthma, and whose breath came far too thick and heavy for the letter s, 'Your thervant!Thith ith a bad piethe of bithnith, thith ith.
-- Thick to that!'
-- Down upon the river that was black and thick with dye, some Coketown boys who were at large a rare sight there rowed a crazy boat, which made a spumous track upon the water as it jogged along, while every dip of an oar stirred up vile smells.
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