grand是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 最重大的, 豪华的; 傲慢的; 美妙的; 全部的,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Your great philosophical idea of a grand life in a prison and your four happy years in that Swiss village are like this, rather,' said Aglaya.
-- I will have a wash, and dress, and then we can drive to the Grand Theatre.
-- I have the address, though; it is close to the Grand Theatre.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Strychnine is a grand tonic, Kemp, to take the flabbiness out of a man."
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Then you must have lost your eyesight afore losing your way, for the road across the portage is cut to a good two rods, and is as grand a path, I calculate, as any that runs into London, or even before the palace of the king himself.'
-- While the others were busily occupied in seeking to gratify their childish passion for fin-ery, by plundering even the miserable effects of the scout, or had been searching with such bloodthirsty vengeance in their looks for their absent owner, Le Renard had stood at a little distance from the prisoners, with a demeanor so quiet and satisfied, as to betray that he had already effect-ed the grand purpose of his treachery.
-- That!that is the print of a foot, but 'tis the dark-hair's; and small it is, too, for one of such a noble height and grand appearance.
-- Look at the Sagamore, how like a grand Indian chief he sits by the fire.
-- 'Why did not the grand Frencher, he who is captain-general of the Canadas, bury the tomahawks of the Hurons, if a word from a white can work so strongly on the natur' of an Indian?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They had to profit by the low tide to cross the Channel, and it was agreed that they would construct, for this purpose, as well as they could, a boat which would render communication so much easier, and would also permit them to ascend the Mercy, at the time of their grand exploration of the southwest of the island, which was put off till the first fine days.
-- "Come, we shall have a grand feast, captain!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Is it good, Brass, is it nice, is it fragrant, do you feel like the Grand Turk?'
-- Mr Brass thought that if he did, the Grand Turk's feelings were by no means to be envied, but he said it was famous, and he had no doubt he felt very like that Potentate.
-- Quilp bade him good day; the perpetual Grand Master of the Glorious Apollers, elevating his hat in honour of Mrs Quilp, dropped it carelessly on the side of his head again, and disappeared with a flourish.
-- The pupils cared little for a companion who had no grand stories to tell about home; no friends to come with post-horses, and be received in all humility, with cake and wine, by the governess; no deferential servant to attend and bear her home for the holidays; nothing genteel to talk about, and nothing to display.
-- Kit would gladly have declined the proffered honour, but as Mr Swiveller was already established in the seat beside him, he had no means of doing so, otherwise than by a forcible ejectment, and therefore, drove briskly off so briskly indeed, as to cut short the leave-taking between Mr Chuckster and his Grand Master, and to occasion the former gentleman some inconvenience from having his corns squeezed by the impatient pony.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the black kitten had been finished with earlier in the afternoon, and so, while Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great arm-chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; and there it was, spread over the hearth-rug, all knots and tangles, with the kitten running after its own tail in the middle.
-- Looking-Glass InsectsOf course the first thing to do was to make a grand survey of the country she was going to travel through.
-- 'Of course I don't think so!Why, if ever I did fall off which there's no chance of but if I did ' Here he pursed his lips and looked so solemn and grand that Alice could hardly help laughing.
-- 'I hope it encouraged him,' she said, as she turned to run down the hill: 'and now for the last brook, and to be a Queen!How grand it sounds!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The record lasted over nearly twenty years, the amount of the separate entries growing larger as time went on, and at the end a grand total had been made out after five or six wrong additions, and these words appended, "Bones, his pile."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
-- It was a grand defiance given to the giant narwhal, and he could scarcely fail to answer the summons and "appear."
-- Undoubtedly we had to do with civilised people, and, had it not been for the electric light which flooded us, I could have fancied I was in the dining-room of the Adelphi Hotel at Liverpool, or at the Grand Hotel in Paris.
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