amazement是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 惊奇, 诧异,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For, it must be recorded, that not only was Miss Pross lost in amazement and agitation, but, Mr. Cruncher though it seemed on his own separate and individual account was in a state of the greatest wonder.
-- Sydney Carton, who, with Mr. Lorry, had been lost in amazement at this turn of the business, here requested Mr. Cruncher to moderate and explain himself.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Vronsky in amazement raised his head, and stared, as he knew how to stare, not into the Englishman's eyes, but at his forehead, astounded at the impertinence of his question.
-- And the amazement and perplexity of Stepan Arkadyevitch at this avowal made her smile.
-- When Levin had changed his first hundred-rouble note to pay for liveries for his footmen and hall-porter he could not help reflecting that these liveries were of no use to anyone--but they were indubitably necessary, to judge by the amazement of the princess and Kitty when he suggested that they might do without liveries,--that these liveries would cost the wages of two laborers for the summer, that is, would pay for about three hundred working days from Easter to Ash Wednesday, and each a day of hard work from early morning to late evening--and that hundred-rouble note did stick in his throat.
-- answered a voice, and to his amazement Levin heard that the doctor was smiling as he spoke.
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:
-- His first amazement was followed by a thrill of horror, like a shiver running down his spine.
-- But what was his amazement when he suddenly saw that Nastasya was not only at home in the kitchen, but was occupied there, taking linen out of a basket and hanging it on a line.
-- With amazement he gazed at himself and everything in the room around him, wondering how he could have come in the night before without fastening the door, and have flung himself on the sofa without undressing, without even tak-ing his hat off.
-- And then to his intense amazement he caught the voice of his landlady.
-- With the same amazement he stared at Raskolnikov, who lay undressed, dishevelled, unwashed, on his miserable dirty sofa, looking fixedly at him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What was my amazement to find,of all people upon earth, my aunt there, and Mr. Dick!My auntsitting on a quantity of luggage, with her two birds before her, andher cat on her knee, like a female Robinson Crusoe, drinking tea.
-- To my amazement she was sobbing on my neck.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Bathsheba blushed slightly at the sense of being generous in public, and Henery Fray, who had drawn up towards her chair, lifted his eyebrows and fingers to express amazement on a small scale.
-- Troy paused in secret amazement at Boldwood's wild infatuation.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But now to their amazement she had become a grown-upyoung lady and quite the most charming one in all the world.
-- Gerald knew that northward beyond that stream the land was stillheld by the Cherokees, so it was with amazement that he heard the stranger jeer at suggestions of trouble with theIndians and narrate how thriving towns were growing up and plantations prospering in the new country.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When at last I put the glass to him, I saw with amazement that his eyes were full of tears.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After which, like one whose imagination was struck with something never seen or heard of before, he would lift up his eyes with amazement and indignation.
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:
-- She was perfectly dim and dazed, looking down in a sort of amazement at the rather tender nape of his neck, feeling his face pressing her thighs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She looked in amazement at her sister and would have asked a question, but that Fanny with a warning frown pointed to a curtained doorway of communication with another room.
-- Clennam, who had been almost incessantly shaking hands with him throughout the narrative, was reminded by this to say, in an amazement which even the preparation he had had for the main disclosure smoothed down, 'My dear Mr Pancks, this must have cost you a great sum of money.'
-- Little Dorrit was not there herself, but Flora was, and testified the greatest amazement at seeing him.
-- The amazement and horror depicted in the unfortunate John's face for he had rather expected to be embraced next were of that powerfully expressive nature that Mr Dorrit withdrew his hand and merely glared at him.
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