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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Itwas a pleasant land of white houses, peaceful plowed fields and sluggish yellow rivers, but a land of contrasts, ofbrightest sun glare and densest shade.
-- She was as forthright and simple as the windsthat blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound about it, and to the end of her days she would never be able tounderstand a complexity.
-- In the strange half-light, the tall pines of the river swamp, so warmly green in the sunshine, were black against thepastel sky, an impenetrable row of black giants hiding the slow yellow water at their feet.
-- Mammy set the plates before her mistress, golden-topped biscuits,breast of fried chicken and a yellow yam open and steaming, with melted butter dripping from it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To-night, Joe several times invited me, by the display of his fast diminishing slice, to enter upon our usual friendly competition; but he found me, each time, with my yellow mug of tea on one knee, and my untouched bread and butter on the other.
-- Behind the furthest end of the brewery, was a rank garden with an old wall; not so high but that I could struggle up and hold on long enough to look over it, and see that the rank garden was the garden of the house, and that it was overgrown with tangled weeds, but that there was a track upon the green and yellow paths, as if some one sometimes walked there, and that Estella was walking away from me even then.
-- A figure all in yellow white, with but one shoe to the feet; and it hung so, that I could see that the faded trimmings of the dress were like earthy paper, and that the face was Miss Havisham's, with a movement going over the whole countenance as if she were trying to call to me.
-- An epergne or centre-piece of some kind was in the middle of this cloth; it was so heavily overhung with cobwebs that its form was quite undistinguishable; and, as I looked along the yellow expanse out of which I remember its seeming to grow, like a black fungus, I saw speckle-legged spiders with blotchy bodies running home to it, and running out from it, as if some circumstances of the greatest public importance had just transpired in the spider community.
-- "I am yellow skin and bone."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The fisherman did not much like the business: however, 49he went to the seashore; and when he came back there the water looked all yellow and green.
-- Now he had a good deal of gold in the house: so he said to Catherine, 'What pretty yellow buttons these are!I shall put them into a box and bury them in the garden; but take care that you nev-er go near or meddle with them.'
-- 'Oh dear me, I should like to buy very much, but I have no money: if you had any use for yellow buttons, I might deal with you.'
-- 'Yellow buttons!'
-- 'Go into the garden and dig where I tell you, and you will find the yellow but-tons: I dare not go myself.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- From the left fob he took out a net almost large enough for a fisherman, but contrived to open and shut like a purse, and served him for the same use: we found therein several massy pieces of yellow metal, which, if they be real gold, must be of immense value.
-- I forgot another circumstance (and perhaps I might have the reader's pardon if it were wholly omitted), that while I held the odious vermin in my hands, it voided its filthy excrements of a yellow liquid substance all over my clothes; but by good fortune there was a small brook hard by, where I washed myself as clean as I could; although I durst not come into my master's presence until I were sufficiently aired.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Some magnificent specimens of marble projected from the sides of the gallery: some of an agate grey with white veins of variegated character, others of a yellow spotted color, with red veins; farther off might be seen samples of color in which cherry-tinted seams were to be found in all their brightest shades.
-- I feel like a starving prisoner," he said, rubbing his yellow and shivering hands together.
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:
-- No doubt with evil-smelling yellow soap!She was rather annoyed; why should she be made to stumble on these vul-gar privacies?
-- Clifford was yellow at the gills with anger, and at evening the whites of his eyes were a little yellow too.
-- Hilda talked to Clifford, who still had yellow eyeballs when they got back.
-- And there was a sparkle of yellow jasmine by the door; the closed door.
-- So he quickly took some larch twigs to the little brick fire-place in the corner, and in a moment the yellow flame was running up the chimney.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This was an amazing little old woman, with a face like a staring wooden doll too cheap for expression, and a stiff yellow wig perched unevenly on the top of her head, as if the child who owned the doll had driven a tack through it anywhere, so that it only got fastened on.
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