cure是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 治愈; 加工处理; n. 治愈, 疗法; 对策,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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'For some weeks I led a miserable life in the woods, en-deavouring to cure the wound which I had received.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I can find a cure for this,' thought he; 'now I will milk my cow and quench my thirst': so he tied her to the stump of a tree, and held his leathern cap to milk into; but not a drop was to be had.
-- Her waiting-maid said: 'I will find a cure for him; he shall soon learn what it is to shudder.'
-- I have done all this only to cure you of your silly pride, and to show you the folly of your ill-treatment of me.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It seems indeed to be a work that requires some exactness, but the professor assured us, 'that if it were dexterously performed, the cure would be infallible.'
-- So that, sup-posing us to have the gift of reason, he could not see how it were possible to cure that natural antipathy, which ev-ery creature discovered against us; nor consequently how we could tame and render them serviceable.
-- I said, 'my birth was of honest parents, in an island called England; which was remote from his country, as many days' journey as the strongest of his honour's servants could trav-el in the annual course of the sun; that I was bred a surgeon, whose trade it is to cure wounds and hurts in the body, got-ten by accident or violence; that my country was governed by a female man, whom we called queen; that I left it to get riches, whereby I might maintain myself and family, when I should return; that, in my last voyage, I was commander of the ship, and had about fifty Yahoos under me, many of which died at sea, and I was forced to supply them by oth-ers picked out from several nations; that our ship was twice in danger of being sunk, the first time by a great storm, and the second by striking against a rock.'
-- Neither has their language any more than a general appellation for those maladies, which is borrowed from the name of the beast, and called hnea-yahoo, or Yahoo's evil; and the cure prescribed is a mixture of their own dung and urine, forc-ibly put down the Yahoo's throat.
-- However, they have excellent medicines, composed of herbs, to cure accidental bruises and cuts in the pastern or frog of the foot, by sharp stones, as well as other maims and hurts in the several parts of the body.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I want to cure you of a bad habit."
-- There can be no doubt that a journey into the interior of the earth would be an excellent cure for deafness."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was down, with his young wife and little family, at his Cure of Souls.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'It's my dreadful temper!I try to cure it, I think I have, and then it breaks out worse than ever.
-- 'I've been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it.
-- The knowledge that her mother had a fault like hers, and tried to mend it, made her own easier to bear and strengthened her resolution to cure it, though forty years seemed rather a long time to watch and pray to a girl of fifteen.
-- Mrs. Hummel told him she was poor, and had tried to cure baby herself, but now it was too late, and she could only ask him to help the others and trust to charity for his pay.
-- 'I've thought a great deal lately about my 'bundle of naughties', and being selfish is the largest one in it, so I'm going to try hard to cure it, if I can.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One complained of a bad cold in his head, upon which Jonah mixed him a pitch-like potion of gin and molasses, which he swore was a sovereign cure for all colds and catarrhs whatsoever, never mind of how long standing, or whether caught off the coast of Labrador, or on the weather side of an ice-island.
-- How to cure such a dyspepsia it were hard to say, unless by administering three or four boat loads of Brandreth's pills, and then running out of harm's way, as laborers do in blasting rocks.
-- I'll cure myself of this.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'We'll cure you of that, my young master.'
-- If you make a fool of me again, I'll soon cure you, I warrant you!'
-- 'Why, the sight of you, Mr. Fagin, would cure the hoptalmy!'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I went, directed by Heaven no doubt; for in this chest I found a cure both for soul and body.
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