hang是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 悬挂, 垂吊; 吊死, 绞死,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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As the height of luxury, Meg put out some of her sewing, and then found time hang so heavily that she fell to snipping and spoiling her clothes in her attempts to furbish them up a'la Moffat.
-- Hang college!'
-- She hes the liking for it, and gits the hang of things surprisin quick.
-- 'Hang the RAMBLER!Come down and give me your word that this harum-scarum boy of mine hasn't done any-thing ungrateful or impertinent.
-- I never tried it before, and hang me if I ever do again!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's.
-- From this one poor hunt, then, the best lance out of all Nantucket, surely he will not hang back, when every foremast-hand has clutched a whetstone?
-- "Wonder if he means me? complimentary! poor lad! I could go hang myself.
-- Nail down the lid; caulk the seams; pay over the same with pitch; batten them down tight, and hang it with the snap-spring over the ship's stern.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One young gentleman was very anxious to hang up his cap for him; and another was so obliging as to put his hands in his pockets, in order that, as he was very tired, he might not have the trouble of emptying them, himself, when he went to bed.
-- Hundreds of these handkerchiefs hang dangling from pegs outside the windows or flaunting from the door-posts; and the shelves, within, are piled with them.
-- Nor did Oliver's time hang heavy on his hands, although the young lady had not yet left her chamber, and there were no evening walks, save now and then, for a short distance, with Mrs. Maylie.
-- 'So, by the same rule, if a woman's a party to a secret that might hang or transport her, I'm not afraid of her telling it to anybody; not I!Do you understand, mistress?'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I knocked pieces into the wall of the rock to hang my guns and all things that would hang up; so that, had my cave been to be seen, it looked like a general magazine of all necessary things; and had everything so ready at my hand, that it was a great pleasure to me to see all my goods in such order, and especially to find my stock of all necessaries so great.
-- - From this day to the 20th I placed shelves, and knocked up nails on the posts, to hang everything up that could be hung up; and now I began to be in some order within doors.
-- Having fitted my mast and sail, and tried the boat, I found she would sail very well; then I made little lockers or boxes at each end of my boat, to put provisions, necessar-ies, ammunition, &c., into, to be kept dry, either from rain or the spray of the sea; and a little, long, hollow place I cut in the inside of the boat, where I could lay my gun, making a flap to hang down over it to keep it dry.
-- For example, if I killed a goat abroad, I could hang it up in a tree, flay it, dress it, and cut it in pieces, and bring it home in a basket; and the like by a turtle; I could cut it up, take out the eggs and a piece or two of the flesh, which was enough for me, and bring them home in a basket, and leave the rest behind me.
-- My beard I had once suffered to grow till it was about a quarter of a yard long; but as I had both scissors and razors sufficient, I had cut it pretty short, except what grew on my upper lip, which I had trimmed into a large pair of Mahometan whiskers, such as I had seen worn by some Turks at Sallee, for the Moors did not wear such, though the Turks did; of these moustachios, or whiskers, I will not say they were long enough to hang my hat upon them, but they were of a length and shape monstrous enough, and such as in England would have passed for frightful.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Perhaps just at present he may be undecided; the smallness of your fortune may make him hang back; his friends may all advise him against it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Their clothes were neat, in many instances fine, and wherever she encountered the eye of one it was only to recognise in it a keen analysis of her own position--her individual shortcomings of dress and that shadow of manner which she thought must hang about her and make clear to all who and what she was.
-- She began to get the hang of those little things which the pretty woman who has vanity invariably adopts.
-- She unloosed her hair after a time, and let it hang in loose brown waves.
-- The hang of faded clothes pained her eyes.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I practiced around all day to get the hang of the things, and by and by I could do pretty well in them, only Jim said I didn't walk like a girl; and he said I must quit pulling up my gown to get at my britches-pocket.
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