blow是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vi. 吹, 吹气, 打气; 吹奏; 爆炸n. 打, 打击,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When hehad put up his things for the night, he took out his flute, and blewat it, until I almost thought he would gradually blow his wholebeing into the large hole at the top, and ooze away at the keys.
-- On beingasked by a mild boy (not me) how he would proceed if he didbegin to see him do it, he dipped a match into his phosphorus-boxon purpose to shed a glare over his reply, and said he wouldcommence by knocking him down with a blow on the foreheadfrom the seven-and-sixpenny ink-bottle that was always on themantelpiece.
-- How well I recollect the kind of day it was!I smell the fog thathung about the place; I see the hoar-frost, ghostly, through it; I feelmy rimy hair fall clammy on my cheek; I look along the dimperspective of the schoolroom, with a sputtering candle here andthere to light up the foggy morning, and the breath of the boyswreathing and smoking in the raw cold as they blow upon theirfingers, and tap their feet upon the floor.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Chapter XVIThe hair was curled, and the maid sent away, and Emma sat down to think and be miserable. It was a wretched business indeed! Such an overthrow of every thing she had been wishing for! Such a development of every thing most unwelcome! Such a blow for Harriet! that was the worst of all.
-- As the blow was given, Emma felt that she could not now shew greater kindness than in listening; and Harriet, unchecked, ran ea-gerly through what she had to tell.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "He can blow the flute very well that 'a can," said a young married man, who having no individuality worth mentioning was known as "Susan Tall's husband."
-- He continued, "I'd as lief as not be able to blow into a flute as well as that."
-- Owing to the great hurry necessitated by the far-gone state of some of the flock, Gabriel missed his aim in one case, and in one only striking wide of the mark, and inflicting a mortal blow at once upon the suffering ewe.
-- He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it blow so strongly that it stops the breath.
-- Boldwood had already twitched the handkerchief, and the gun exploded a second time, sending its contents, by a timely blow from Samway, into the beam which crossed the ceiling.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said Vautrin, and he drove Father Goriot's cap down over his eyes by a blow on the crown.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We have already reached a very high latitude; but it is the height of summer, and although not so warm as in England, the southern gales, which blow us speedily towards those shores which I so ardently desire to attain, breathe a degree of renovating warmth which I had not expected.
-- This last blow overcame her, and she knelt by Beaufort's coffin weeping bitterly, when my father entered the chamber.
-- This was a dire blow to poor Elizabeth, who had relied with firmness upon Justine's innocence.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Scarlett's face did not change but her lips went white like a person who has received a stunning blow withoutwarning and who, in the first moments of shock, does not realize what has happened.
-- Blow your nose, daughter."
-- Thin as a rail and delicate enough for the wind to blow away and no spiritat all.
-- Enraptured at this evidence of her affection, he grabbedup her fan and plied it so enthusiastically her hair began to blow about untidily.
-- Everyone knew that one battle would end the war andevery young man hastened to enlist before the war should end hastened to marry his sweetheart before he rushed offto Virginia to strike a blow at the Yankees.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All this I saw in a moment, for I had only a moment to see it in: he swore an oath at me, made a hit at me,--it was a round weak blow that missed me and almost knocked himself down, for it made him stumble,--and then he ran into the mist, stumbling twice as he went, and I lost him.
-- The cold wind seemed to blow colder there than outside the gate; and it made a shrill noise in howling in and out at the open sides of the brewery, like the noise of wind in the rigging of a ship at sea.
-- Thus, you were to hammer boys round--Old Clem!With a thump and a sound--Old Clem!Beat it out, beat it out--Old Clem!With a clink for the stout--Old Clem!Blow the fire, blow the fire--Old Clem!Roaring dryer, soaring higher--Old Clem!One day soon after the appearance of the chair, Miss Havisham suddenly saying to me, with the impatient movement of her fingers, "There, there, there!Sing!"
-- The unemployed bystanders drew back when they saw me, and so I became aware of my sister,--lying without sense or movement on the bare boards where she had been knocked down by a tremendous blow on the back of the head, dealt by some unknown hand when her face was turned towards the fire,--destined never to be on the Rampage again, while she was the wife of Joe.
-- She gave me to understand on the stairs, that it was a blow to dear Mrs. Pocket that dear Mr. Pocket should be under the necessity of receiving gentlemen to read with him.
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