reluctant是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 不愿的, 勉强的,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His mottled face was apprehensive, and he moved with a sort of reluctant alacrity.
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:
-- asked the reluctant fair one.
-- The Indians, however, hesitated not a moment, but tak-ing the bridles, they led the frightened and reluctant horses into the bed of the river.
-- As minute after minute passed by, leaving them in undisturbed security, the insinuating feeling of hope was gradually gaining posses-sion of every bosom, though each one felt reluctant to give utterance to expectations that the next moment might so fearfully destroy.
-- 'Twould be, indeed, a bloody path for such tender feet to wade in,' returned the equally reluctant scout; 'but I thought it befitting my manhood to name it.
-- For several miles in this direction, the moun-tains appeared reluctant to yield their dominion, but within reach of the eye they diverged, and finally melted into the level and sandy lands, across which we have accompanied our adventurers in their double journey.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Kit scratched his head mournfully, in reluctant admission that it did not, and clambering up to the old nail took down the cage and set himself to clean it and to feed the bird.
-- It was with a trembling and reluctant hand, that the child held out to him the money which the lady had given her at the races for her flowers: faltering in her thanks as she thought how small the sum was, and blushing as she offered it.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One of them she knew, a tall, slow, reluctant woman with a weight of fair hair and a pale, long face.
-- She was reluctant to yield there, where he wanted her, to yield as it were her very identity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Daniel Doyce was still reluctant to consent, and again and again urged that they had better put it by.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The feeble fingers were never idle, and one of her pleasures was to make little things for the school children daily passing to and fro, to drop a pair of mittens from her window for a pair of purple hands, a needlebook for some small mother of many dolls, penwipers for young penmen toiling through forests of pothooks, scrapbooks for picture-loving eyes, and all manner of pleasant devices, till the reluctant climbers of the ladder of learning found their way strewn with flowers, as it were, and came to regard the gentle giver as a sort of fairy godmother, who sat above there, and showered down gifts miraculously suited to their tastes and needs.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Thursday was to be the wedding day, and on Wednesday Miss Lucas paid her farewell visit; and when she rose to take leave, Elizabeth, ashamed of her mother's ungracious and reluctant good wishes, and sincerely affected herself, ac-companied her out of the room.
-- Elizabeth tried to join in her father's pleasantry, but could only force one most reluctant smile.
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