yellow是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 黄的, 黄色的n. 黄色,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《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The furniture, all very old and of yellow wood, consisted of a sofa with a huge bent wooden back, an oval table in front of the sofa, a dressing-table with a looking-glass fixed on it between the windows, chairs along the walls and two or three half-penny prints in yellow frames, representing German damsels with birds in their hands that was all.
-- Since there are times when one absolutely must go somewhere!When my own daughter first went out with a yellow ticket, then I had to go 芒聙娄 (for my daughter has a yellow passport),' he add-ed in parenthesis, looking with a certain uneasiness at the young man.
-- It had a poverty-stricken appearance with its dusty yellow paper peeling off the walls, and it was so low-pitched that a man of more than average height was ill at ease in it and felt every moment that he would knock his head against the ceiling.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Abrahamin red going to sacrifice Isaac in blue, and Daniel in yellow castinto a den of green lions, were the most prominent of these.
-- My pretty, little, startled Dora!Her onlyassociation with the word was a yellow face and a nightcap, or apair of crutches, or a wooden leg, or a dog with a decanter-stand inhis mouth, or something of that kind; and she stared at me with themost delightful wonder.
-- Among the great beams, bulks, and ringbolts of the ship, and theemigrant-berths, and chests, and bundles, and barrels, and heapsof miscellaneous baggage- lighted up, here and there, by danglinglanterns; and elsewhere by the yellow daylight straying down a 748windsail or a hatchway- were crowded groups of people, makingnew friendships, taking leave of one another, talking, laughing,crying, eating and drinking; some, already settled down into thepossession of their few feet of space, with their little householdsarranged, and tiny children established on stools, or in dwarfelbow-chairs; others, despairing of a resting-place, and wanderingdisconsolately.
-- But Julia keeps no diary in these days; never singsAffection's Dirge; eternally quarrels with the old Scotch Croesus,who is a sort of yellow bear with a tanned hide.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- ' Harriet's was 'Oh, what a sweet house! How very beautiful! There are the yellow curtains that Miss Nash admires so much.'
-- Emma watched them in, and then joined Harriet at the interesting counter, trying, with all the force of her own 284 Emmamind, to convince her that if she wanted plain muslin it was of no use to look at figured; and that a blue ribbon, be it ever so beautiful, would still never match her yellow pattern.
-- Look!in places you see it is dreadfully dirty; and the wain-306 Emmascot is more yellow and forlorn than any thing I could have imagined.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Casually glancing over the hedge, Oak saw coming down the incline before him an ornamental spring waggon, painted yellow and gaily marked, drawn by two horses, a waggoner walking alongside bearing a whip perpendicularly.
-- A desolating wind wandered from the north over the hill whereon Oak had watched the yellow waggon and its occupant in the sunshine of a few days earlier.
-- Oak knew her instantly as the heroine of the yellow waggon, myrtles, and looking-glass: prosily, as the woman who owed him twopence.
-- Banks of smoke went off horizontally at the back like passing clouds, and behind these burned hidden pyres, illuminating the semi-transparent sheet of smoke to a lustrous yellow uniformity.
-- The corn stood on stone staddles, and between these, tongues of yellow hue from the burning straw licked and darted playfully.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He might be seen any day sailing like a gray shadow along the walks of the Jardin des Plantes, on his head a shabby cap, a cane with an old yellow ivory handle in the tips of his thin fingers; the outspread skirts of his threadbare overcoat failed to conceal his meagre figure; his breeches hung loosely on his shrunken limbs; the thin, blue-stockinged legs trembled like those of a drunken man; there was a notable breach of continuity between the dingy white waistcoat and crumpled shirt frills and the cravat twisted about a throat like a turkey gobbler's; altogether, his appearance set people wondering whether this outlandish ghost belonged to the audacious race of the sons of Japhet who flutter about on the Boulevard Italien.
-- For her, the little garden, which silence, and cold, and rain, and drought combined to make as dreary as an Asian _steppe_, was a pleasant shaded nook; the gaunt yellow house, the musty odors of a back shop had charms for her, and for her alone.
-- Vauquer had made various improvements in the three rooms destined for his use, in consideration of a certain sum paid in advance, so it was said, for the miserable furniture, that is to say, for some yellow cotton curtains, a few chairs of stained wood covered with Utrecht velvet, several wretched colored prints in frames, and wall papers that a little suburban tavern would have disdained.
-- When he reached the street door, the driver of a hackney coach, who had probably just deposited a wedding party at their door, and asked nothing better than a chance of making a little money for himself without his employer's knowledge, saw that Eugene had no umbrella, remarked his black coat, white waistcoat, yellow gloves, and varnished boots, and stopped and looked at him inquiringly.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.
-- Beautiful!Great God!His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lus-trous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.
-- I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became con-vulsed; when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters, I beheld the wretch the miserable monster whom I had created.
-- The windows of the room had before been darkened, and I felt a kind of panic on seeing the pale yellow light of the moon illuminate the chamber.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For here were no long, straight furrows, such as could be seen in the yellow clayfields of the flat middle Georgia country or in the lush black earth of the coastal plantations.
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