much是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 多的, 大量的ad. 十分, 非常; 到极大程度,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At first the passengers were much frightened, but Captain Anderson hastened to reassure them.
-- These last words were cowardly on my part; but, up to a certain point, I wished to shelter my dignity as professor, and not give too much cause for laughter to the Americans, who laugh well when they do laugh.
-- It had been so much talked of, even through the Atlantic cable, that jesters pretended that this slender fly had stopped a telegram on its passage and was making the most of it.
-- But, seeing that Ned Land let me speak without saying too much himself, I pressed him more closely.
-- This useless search could not last much longer.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It would be much better if they were just wiped out.
-- "Too much bloody soul and talk altogether "He withdrew in a dudgeon, Gerald staring after him with angry eyes, that grew gradually calm and amiable as the stoutly-built form of the other man passed into the distance.
-- "Thank you so much for showing me.
-- "Not because they have too much mind, but too little," he said brutally.
-- There was a sense of violation in the air, as if too much was said, the unforgivable.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He is a darkskinned gipsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman: that is, as much a gentleman as many a country squire: rather slovenly, perhaps, yet not looking amiss with his negligence, because he has an erect and handsome figure; and rather morose.
-- On Sunday evenings we used to be permitted to play, if we did not make much noise; now a mere titter is sufficient to send us into corners.
-- I bid them be quiet, now that they saw me returned, and, benumbed to my very heart, I dragged up stairs; whence, after putting on dry clothes, and pacing to and fro thirty or forty minutes, to restore the animal heat, I adjourned to my study, feeble as a kitten: almost too much so to enjoy the cheerful fire and smoking coffee which the servant had prepared for my refreshment.
-- With this intention I asked Mrs. Dean why Heathcliff let Thrushcross Grange, and preferred living in a situation and residence so much inferior.
-- I was vain of his commendations, and softened towards the being by whose means I earned them, and thus Hindley lost his last ally: still I couldn't dote on Heathcliff, and I wond ered often what my master saw to admire so much in the sullen boy; who never, to my recollection, repaid his indulgence by any sign of gratitude.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She said afterwards that she had never seen in all her life such a face as the King made, when he found himself held in the air by an invisible hand, and being dusted: he was far too much astonished to cry out, but his eyes and his mouth went on getting larger and larger, and rounder and rounder, till her hand shook so with laughing that she nearly let him drop upon the floor.
-- She was getting a little giddy with so much floating in the air, and was rather glad to find herself walking again in the natural way.
-- Alice wondered a little at this, but she was too much in awe of the Queen to disbelieve it.
-- She felt as if she would never be able to talk again, she was getting so much out of breath: and still the Queen cried 'Faster!Faster!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Much company, mate?"
-- By his own account he must have lived his life among some of the wickedest men that God ever allowed upon the sea, and the language in which he told these stories shocked our plain country people almost as much as the crimes that he described.
-- The doctor never so much as moved.
-- He sank daily, and my mother and I had all the inn upon our hands, and were kept busy enough without paying much regard to our unpleasant guest.
-- He was a pale, tallowy creature, wanting two fingers of the left hand, and though he wore a cutlass, he did not look much like a fighter.
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