shame是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 羞耻, 耻辱; 可耻的人(或事物) v. 使羞愧,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《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was even harder than he could have believed possible, to separate in his own conscience his abandonment by all his fellows from a baseless sense of shame and disgrace.
-- She erected in her mind a mighty Staircase, with a dark pit of shame and ruin at the bottom; and down those stairs, from day to day and hour to hour, she saw Louisa coming.
-- 'Oh, my fellow-men, behold of what a traitor in the camp of those great spirits who are enrolled upon the holy scroll of Justice and of Union, is appropriately capable!Oh, my prostrate friends, with the galling yoke of tyrants on your necks and the iron foot of despotism treading down your fallen forms into the dust of the earth, upon which right glad would your oppressors be to see you creeping on your bellies all the days of your lives, like the serpent in the garden oh, my brothers, and shall I as a man not add, my sisters too, what do you say, now, of Stephen Blackpool, with a slight stoop in his shoulders and about five foot seven in height, as set forth in this degrading and disgusting document, this blighting bill, this pernicious placard, this abominable advertisement; and with what majesty of denouncement will you crush the viper, who would bring this stain and shame upon the God-like race that happily has cast him out for ever!Yes, my compatriots, happily cast him out and sent him forth!For you remember how he stood here before you on this platform; you remember how, face to face and foot to foot, I pursued him through all his intricate windings; you remember how he sneaked and slunk, and sidled, and splitted of straws, until, with not an inch of ground to which to cling, I hurled him out from amongst us: an object for the undying finger of scorn to point at, and for the avenging fire of every free and thinking mind to scorch and scar!And now, my friends my labouring friends, for I rejoice and triumph in that stigma my friends whose hard but honest beds are made in toil, and whose scanty but independent pots are boiled in hardship; and now, I say, my friends, what appellation has that dastard craven taken to himself, when, with the mask torn from his features, he stands before us in all his native deformity, a What?
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:
-- But everybody says it's a shame something can't be started, to keep the men going a bit better, and employ the girls.
-- Oh my dear, that WOULD be a Tevershall baby in the Wragby cradle, my word!Wouldn't shame it, neither!
-- Instead of which, the shame died.
-- To find a man who dared do it, without shame or sin or final misgiving!If he had been ashamed afterwards, and made one feel ashamed, how awful!What a pity most men are so doggy, a bit shameful, like Clifford!Like Mi-chaelis even!Both sensually a bit doggy and humiliating.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That's what you say to a man of that sort; and if you didn't say it, more shame for you!'
-- It was like the oppression of a dream to believe that shame and exposure were impending over her and his father's memory, and to be shut out, as by a brazen wall, from the possibility of coming to their aid.
-- 'I,' pursued Clennam, without attending to him, 'who have ruined my partner!Pancks, Pancks, I have ruined Doyce!The honest, self-helpful, indefatigable old man who has worked his way all through his life; the man who has contended against so much disappointment, and who has brought out of it such a good and hopeful nature; the man I have felt so much for, and meant to be so true and useful to; I have ruined him brought him to shame and disgrace ruined him, ruined him!'
-- When she pleaded to me her youth, and his wretched and hard life (that was her phrase for the virtuous training he had belied), and the desecrated ceremony of marriage there had secretly been between them, and the terrors of want and shame that had overwhelmed them both when I was first appointed to be the instrument of their punishment, and the love (for she said the word to me, down at my feet) in which she had abandoned him and left him to me, was it my enemy that became my footstool, were they the words of my wrath that made her shrink and quiver!Not unto me the strength be ascribed; not unto me the wringing of the expiation!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One dis-covered that money couldn't keep shame and sorrow out of rich people's houses, another that, though she was poor, she was a great deal happier, with her youth, health, and good spirits, than a certain fretful, feeble old lady who couldn't enjoy her comforts, a third that, disagreeable as it was to help get dinner, it was harder still to go begging for it and the fourth, that even carnelian rings were not so valuable as good behavior.
-- Scarlet with shame and anger, Amy went to and fro six dreadful times, and as each doomed couple, looking oh, so plump and juicy, fell from her reluc-tant hands, a shout from the street completed the anguish of the girls, for it told them that their feast was being exulted over by the little Irish children, who were their sworn foes.
-- It would have been bad enough to go to her seat, and see the pitying faces of her friends, or the sat-isfied ones of her few enemies, but to face the whole school, with that shame fresh upon her, seemed impossible, and for a second she felt as if she could only drop down where she stood, and break her heart with crying.
-- During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive little girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot.
-- Meg longed to go and tell Mother, but a sense of shame at her own short comings, of loyalty to John, 'who might be cruel, but nobody should know it,' restrained her, and after a summary cleaning up, she dressed herself prettily, and sat down to wait for John to come and be forgiven.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No!Well then, fill up again, captains, and let's drink shame upon all cowards!I name no names.
-- Shame upon them!Put one foot upon the table.
-- Shame upon all cowards. Hist!above there, I hear ivory Oh, master!master!I am indeed down-hearted when you walk over me.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I shall tell Colonel Forster it will be quite a shame if he does not.'
-- Mr. Collins, awkward and solemn, apologising instead of attending, and often moving wrong without being aware of it, gave her all the shame and misery which a disagreeable partner for a couple of dances can give.
-- Elizabeth blushed and blushed again with shame and vexation.
-- With amazement did she first understand that he believed any apology to be in his power; and steadfastly was she per-suaded, that he could have no explanation to give, which a just sense of shame would not conceal.
-- When she came to that part of the letter in which her family were mentioned in terms of such mortifying, yet merited reproach, her sense of shame was severe.
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