leave是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 离开; 留下, 忘带; 让, 听任; 交付n. 许可; 假期,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《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Supposing,' he would say, stating the case with his key on the professional gentleman's waistcoat; 'supposing a man wanted to leave his property to a young female, and wanted to tie it up so that nobody else should ever be able to make a grab at it; how would you tie up that property?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'You are old enough to leave off boyish tricks, and to behave better, Jose-phine.
-- What the characters of the four sisters were we will leave to be found out.
-- But, like all happiness, it did not last long, for as sure as she had just reached the heart of the story, the sweetest verse of a song, or the most perilous adventure of her traveler, a shrill voice called, 'Josy-phine!Josy-phine!and she had to leave her paradise to wind yarn, wash the poodle, or read Belsham's Essays by the hour together.
-- Her face was very friendly and her sharp voice unusually gentle as she said... 'We'll never draw that curtain any more, and I give you leave to look as much as you like.
-- 'A quarter would more than do it, and leave a few cents over for a treat for you.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When, at last, his mind seemed made up touching the character of his bedfellow, and he became, as it were, reconciled to the fact; he jumped out upon the floor, and by certain signs and sounds gave me to understand that, if it pleased me, he would dress first and then leave me to dress afterwards, leaving the whole apartment to myself.
-- Yet this is nothing: I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?"
-- "Mrs. Hussey," said I, "he's alive at all events; so leave us, if you please, and I will see to this strange affair myself."
-- "Come along, Queequeg, let's leave this crazy man.
-- Among sea-commanders, the old greybeards will oftenest leave their berths to visit the night-cloaked deck.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- said Mr. Bumble, when the lady brought her eyes down to earth again; 'the only thing that can be done now, that I know of, is to leave him in the cellar for a day or so, till he's a little starved down; and then to take him out, and keep him on gruel all through the apprenticeship.
-- As fate would have it, Mrs. Bedwin chanced to bring in, at this moment, a small parcel of books, which Mr. Brownlow had that morning purchased of the identical bookstall-keeper, who has already figured in this history; having laid them on the table, she prepared to leave the room.
-- 'I should like,' said the child, 'to leave my dear love to poor Oliver Twist; and to let him know how often I have sat by myself and cried to think of his wandering about in the dark nights with nobody to help him.
-- Never, on any pretence, mind!You may leave the room, Mrs. Bedwin.
-- 'You can leave your friends, though,' said Oliver with a half smile; 'and let them be punished for what you did.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Well, he certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him.
-- Mr. Bingley intended it likewise, and sometimes made choice of his county; but as he was now provided with a good house and the liberty of a manor, it was doubtful to many of those who best knew the easiness of his temper, whether he might not spend the remainder of his days at Netherfield, and leave the next generation to purchase.
-- There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost ev-ery attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself.
-- Miss Bennet had slept ill, and though up, was very feverish, and not well enough to leave her room.
-- Elizabeth was so much caught with what passed, as to leave her very little attention for her book; and soon laying it wholly aside, she drew near the card-table, and stationed herself between Mr. Bingley and his eldest sister, to observe the game.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But I was to have another trial for it still; and Providence, as in such cases generally it does, resolved to leave me entirely without excuse; for if I would not take this for a deliverance, the next was to be such a one as the worst and most hardened wretch among us would confess both the danger and the mercy of.
-- The wind blew from the N.N.E., which was contrary to my desire, for had it blown southerly I had been sure to have made the coast of Spain, and at least reached to the bay of Cadiz; but my resolutions were, blow which way it would, I would be gone from that horrid place where I was, and leave the rest to fate.
-- As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and leave the happy view I had of being a rich and thriving man in my new plantation, only to pursue a rash and immoderate desire of rising faster than the nature of the thing admitted; and thus I cast myself down again into the deepest gulf of human misery that ever man fell into, or perhaps could be consistent with life and a state of health in the world.
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