blame是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 责备, 找…的差错 n. 责任,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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was sure of Mrs. Weston's wishing it to be communicated; especially to one, who, like Mr. Knightley, had seen so much to blame in his conduct.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Had she known Boldwood's moods, her blame would have been fearful, and the stain upon her heart ineradicable.
-- He continued in a more agitated voice: "My opinion is (since you ask it) that you are greatly to blame for playing pranks upon a man like Mr. Boldwood, merely as a pastime.
-- "I know you do not I know it perfectly," said Troy, with much hearty conviction on the exterior of his face: and altering the expression to moodiness; "when a dozen men are ready to speak tenderly to you, and give the admiration you deserve without adding the warning you need, it stands to reason that my poor rough-and-ready mixture of praise and blame cannot convey much pleasure.
-- "True," she said, and though vexed at first she had too much sense to blame them long or seriously for a devotion to her that was as valuable as it was rare.
-- To be just, the men were not greatly to blame for this painful and demoralizing termination to the evening's entertainment.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You will read the story of Father Goriot's secret woes, and, dining thereafter with an unspoiled appetite, will lay the blame of your insensibility upon the writer, and accuse him of exaggeration, of writing romances.
-- Vauquer was wont to confine her attention to events, and did not go very deeply into the causes that brought them about; she likewise preferred to throw the blame of her own mistakes on other people, so she chose to consider that the honest vermicelli maker was responsible for her misfortune.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Well, you can't blame her.
-- "Well, you can't blame her.
-- An' nex' thing, huccome Ah din' bringy'all home ternight so she could lay you out An' den she'll light on me lak a duck on a June bug, an' fust thing Ahknow Ah'll be ter blame fer it all.
-- Ever since I met you at the bazaar, your career has been most shocking and I'm to blame formost of it.
-- Somebody would steal them on the way and I wouldn't blame them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It would be blame to me and not praise, if I had.
-- "But dear Mrs. Pocket," said Mrs. Coiler, "after her early disappointment (not that dear Mr. Pocket was to blame in that), requires so much luxury and elegance--""Yes, ma'am," I said, to stop her, for I was afraid she was going to cry.
-- I told him I had come up again to say how sorry I was that anything disagreeable should have occurred, and that I hoped he would not blame me much.
-- "And don't blame me," growled the convict I had recognized.
-- "It's disapinting to a man," he said, in a coarse broken voice, "arter having looked for'ard so distant, and come so fur; but you're not to blame for that,--neither on us is to blame for that.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He said, 'that be-ing then not very well with the court, and pressed by many of his friends, he complied with the proposal; and after employing a hundred men for two years, the work miscar-ried, the projectors went off, laying the blame entirely upon him, railing at him ever since, and putting others upon the same experiment, with equal assurance of success, as well as equal disappointment.'
-- I answered in a faint voice, 'that death would have been too great a happiness; that although I could not blame the as-sembly's exhortation, or the urgency of his friends; yet, in my weak and corrupt judgment, I thought it might consist with reason to have been less rigorous; that I could not swim a league, and probably the nearest land to theirs might be distant above a hundred: that many materials, necessary for making a small vessel to carry me off, were wholly wanting in this country; which, however, I would attempt, in obe-dience and gratitude to his honour, although I concluded the thing to be impossible, and therefore looked on myself as already devoted to destruction; that the certain prospect of an unnatural death was the least of my evils; for, sup-posing I should escape with life by some strange adventure, how could I think with temper of passing my days among Yahoos, and relapsing into my old corruptions, for want of examples to lead and keep me within the paths of virtue?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I I blame myseln.'
-- I am solely to blame for the thing having come to this and and, I cannot say,' he added, rather hard up for a general peroration, 'that I have any sanguine expectation of ever becoming a moral sort of fellow, or that I have any belief in any moral sort of fellow whatever.'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But to Clifford the blame was torture, like knives goading him.
-- This lack of warmth, this lack of the simple, warm, physical contact, was he not to blame for that?
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