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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In obedience to the captain's orders, the sailors threw a strong rope over the starboard side of the yacht, with a big hook at the end of it, concealed in a thick lump of bacon.
-- The neck was long and slender, and round the thick rim there was still an end of wire hanging, though eaten away with rust.
-- The appearance of the island through the thick veil of rain was mournful in the extreme.
-- The horses went on at a good pace through the thick PAJA-BRAVA, the grass of the Pampas, par excellence, so high and thick that the Indians find shelter in it from storms.
-- No quadrupeds, however, were visible, but Thalcave pointed to the long grass and thick brushwood, and gave his friends to understand they were lying there in concealment.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a 'Penang lawyer.'
-- The latter was a small, alert, dark-eyed man about thirty years of age, very sturdily built, with thick black eyebrows and a strong, pugnacious face.
-- 'I seem to have walked right into the thick of a dime nov-el,' said our visitor.
-- There were pride, valour, and strength in his thick brows, his sensitive nostrils, and his large hazel eyes.
-- Rolling pasture lands curved upward on either side of us, and old gabled houses peeped out from amid the thick green foliage, but behind the peaceful and sunlit country-side there rose ever, dark against the evening sky, the long, gloomy curve of the moor, broken by the jagged and sinister hills.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He held a bundle made up of an old faded silk handkerchief that apparently contained all his travelling wardrobe, and wore thick shoes and gaiters, his whole appearance being very un-Russian.
-- On a sheet of thick writing-paper the prince had written in medieval characters the legend: 'The gentle Abbot Pafnute signed this.'
-- She was a fine woman of the same age as her husband, with a slightly hooked nose, a high, narrow forehead, thick hair turning a little grey, and a sallow complexion.
-- This was a gentleman of about thirty, tall, broad-shouldered, and red-haired; his face was red, too, and he possessed a pair of thick lips, a wide nose, small eyes, rath-er bloodshot, and with an ironical expression in them; as though he were perpetually winking at someone.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then the god sent a deadly dart upon the Argives, and the people died thick on one another, for the arrows went everywhither among the wide host of the Achaeans.
-- They stood as thick upon the flower-bespangled field as leaves that bloom in summer.
-- They are crossing the plain to attack the city as thick as leaves or as the sands of the sea.
-- Therefore he was named Simoeisius, but he did not live to pay his parents for his rearing, for he was cut off untimely by the spear of mighty Ajax, who struck him in the breast by the right nipple as he was coming on among the fore-most fighters; the spear went right through his shoulder, and he fell as a poplar that has grown straight and tall in a meadow by some mere, and its top is thick with branches.
-- Then Diomed prayed, saying, 'Hear me, daughter of aegis-bear-ing Jove, unweariable, if ever you loved my father well and stood by him in the thick of a fight, do the like now by me; grant me to come within a spear's throw of that man and kill him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The thick black hair, escaping as it could below and between the cross bandages, projected in curious tails and horns, giving him the strangest appearance conceivable.
-- "I tried to get into the stream of people, but they were too thick for me, and in a moment my heels were being trodden upon.
-- "The thick of the crowd had already passed.
-- Then socks, a thick comforter, and then I went to the clothing place and got trousers, a lounge jacket, an overcoat and a slouch hat a clerical sort of hat with the brim turned down.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In place of hair, his head was covered by a thick bush of green grass.
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