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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Some moments passed, during which the thick vapor came from his mouth in quick and constant puffs, which blew back again into his face.
-- But neither great Washington, nor Napoleon, nor Nelson, will answer a single hail from below, however madly invoked to befriend by their counsels the distracted decks upon which they gaze; however it may be surmised, that their spirits penetrate through the thick haze of the future, and descry what shoals and what rocks must be shunned.
-- Forced into familiarity, then, with such prodigies as these; and knowing that after repeated, intrepid assaults, the White Whale had escaped alive; it cannot be much matter of surprise that some whalemen should go still further in their superstitions; declaring Moby Dick not only ubiquitous, but immortal (for immortality is but ubiquity in time); that though groves of spears should be planted in his flanks, he would still swim away unharmed; or if indeed he should ever be made to spout thick blood, such a sight would be but a ghastly deception; for again in unensanguined billows hundreds of leagues away, his unsullied jet would once more be seen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a rascally smile on his white face as he turned round, and looking sharply out from under his thick red eyebrows, bent his ear towards the door, and listened.
-- At this moment, there walked into the room: supporting himself by a thick stick: a stout old gentleman, rather lame in one leg, who was dressed in a blue coat, striped waistcoat, nankeen breeches and gaiters, and a broad-brimmed white hat, with the sides turned up with green.
-- This was the handsome offer with which Mr. Grimwig backed and confirmed nearly every assertion he made; and it was the more singular in his case, because, even admitting for the sake of argument, the possibility of scientific improvements being brought to that pass which will enable a gentleman to eat his own head in the event of his being so disposed, Mr. Grimwig's head was such a particularly large one, that the most sanguine man alive could hardly entertain a hope of being able to get through it at a sitting--to put entirely out of the question, a very thick coating of powder.
-- The mud lay thick upon the stones, and a black mist hung over the streets; the rain fell sluggishly down, and everything felt cold and clammy to the touch.
-- CHAPTER XX WHEREIN OLVER IS DELIVERED OVER TO MR. WILLIAM SIKES When Oliver awoke in the morning, he was a good deal surprised to find that a new pair of shoes, with strong thick soles, had been placed at his bedside; and that his old shoes had been removed.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It happened one time, that going a-fishing in a calm morning, a fog rose so thick that, though we were not half a league from the shore, we lost sight of it; and rowing we knew not whither or which way, we laboured all day, and all the next night; and when the morning came we found we had pulled off to sea instead of pulling in for the shore; and that we were at least two leagues from the shore.
-- All the remedy that offered to my thoughts at that time was to get up into a thick bushy tree like a fir, but thorny, which grew near me, and where I resolved to sit all night, and consider the next day what death I should die, for as yet I saw no prospect of life.
-- I have already described my habitation, which was a tent under the side of a rock, surrounded with a strong pale of posts and cables: but I might now rather call it a wall, for I raised a kind of wall up against it of turfs, about two feet thick on the outside; and after some time (I think it was a year and a half) I raised rafters from it, leaning to the rock, and thatched or covered it with boughs of trees, and such things as I could get, to keep out the rain; which I found at some times of the year very violent.
-- - I began my fence or wall; which, being still jeal-ous of my being attacked by somebody, I resolved to make very thick and strong.
-- There were also, indeed, several thick watch-coats of the seamen's which were left, but they were too hot to wear; and though it is true that the weather was so vio-lently hot that there was no need of clothes, yet I could not go quite naked - no, though I had been inclined to it, which I was not - nor could I abide the thought of it, though I was alone.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It had no park, but the pleasure-grounds were tolerably extensive; and like every other place of the same degree of importance, it had its open shrubbery, and closer wood walk, a road of smooth gravel winding round a plantation, led to the front, the lawn was dotted over with timber, the house itself was under the guardianship of the fir, the mountain-ash, and the acacia, and a thick screen of them altogether, interspersed with tall Lombardy poplars, shut out the offices.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It had a thick odour of fresh leather, but that did not worry her.
-- She moved through the thick throng of strangers, utterly subdued in spirit.
-- "The next time you get a pair of shoes, dearie," said Mrs. Vance, "get button, with thick soles and patent-leather tips.
-- Well-dressed guests moving to and fro over the thick carpets carried him back to the old days.
-- Now, however, they came thick and fast.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So he watched out for me one day in the spring, and catched me, and took me up the river about three mile in a skiff, and crossed over to the Illinois shore where it was woody and there warn't no houses but an old log hut in a place where the timber was so thick you couldn't find it if you didn't know where it was.
-- I got my traps out of the canoe andmade me a nice camp in the thick woods.
-- Every now and then I stopped a second amongst the thick leaves and listened, but my breath come so hard I couldn't hear noth-ing else.
-- Well, I couldn't stay up there forever; so at last I got down, but I kept in the thick woods and on the lookout all the time.
-- Then we hunted up a place close by to hide the canoe in, amongst the thick willows.
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