force是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 力量, 力; 势力; (pl. ) (总称) 军队v. 强迫,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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mrs. Elsing begged me to try to do something to arouse her and make her see people " "Oh, but Auntie, it's cruel to force her when poor Dallas has only been dead " "Now, Melly, I shall cry with vexation if you argue with me.
-- Names of graves where friends lay buried, namesof tangled underbrush and thick woods where bodies rotted unburied, names of the four sides of Atlanta whereSherman had tried to force his army in and Hood's men had doggedly beaten him back.
-- She had never struck a slave in all her life, but now she slapped the black cheek with all the force inher tired arm.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She fired when she asked the last question, and she slapped my face with such force as she had, when I answered it.
-- Each of these exclamations was a shriek; and I must remark of my sister, what is equally true of all the violent women I have ever seen, that passion was no excuse for her, because it is undeniable that instead of lapsing into passion, she consciously and deliberately took extraordinary pains to force herself into it, and became blindly furious by regular stages; "what was the name he gave me before the base man who swore to defend me?
-- It's remarkable what mere force of grip there is in these hands.
-- I turned at the door, and he was still looking hard at me, while the two vile casts on the shelf seemed to be trying to get their eyelids open, and to force out of their swollen throats, "O, what a man he is!"
-- A childish association revived with wonderful force in the moment of the slight action, and I fancied that I saw Miss Havisham hanging to the beam.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then he became mad and blind with rage, and struck the window-seat with such force that he cleft it in two: and as the sparrow flew from place to place, the carter and his wife were so furious, that they broke all their furniture, glass-es, chairs, benches, the table, and at last the walls, without touching the bird at all.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All this I was told; for, while the operation was performing, I lay in a profound sleep, by the force of that soporiferous medicine infused into my li-quor.
-- I was assured that, a year or two before my arriv-al, Flimnap would infallibly have broke his neck, if one of the king's cushions, that accidentally lay on the ground, had 39not weakened the force of his fall.
-- ''That the said Quinbus Flestrin, having brought the imperial fleet of Blefuscu into the royal port, and being af-terwards commanded by his imperial majesty to seize all the other ships of the said empire of Blefuscu, and reduce that empire to a province, to be governed by a viceroy from hence, and to destroy and put to death, not only all the Big-endian exiles, but likewise all the people of that empire who would not immediately forsake the Big-endian heresy, he, the said Flestrin, like a false traitor against his most auspi-cious, serene, imperial majesty, did petition to be excused from the said service, upon pretence of unwillingness to force the consciences, or destroy the liberties and lives of an innocent people.
-- I pulled off my shoes and stockings, and, wailing two or three hundred yards, I found the object to approach nearer by force of the tide; and then plainly saw it to be a real boat, which I supposed might by some tem-pest have been driven from a ship.
-- The room was quilted on all sides, as well as the floor and the ceiling, to prevent any ac-cident from the carelessness of those who carried me, and to break the force of a jolt, when I went in a coach.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A mighty man at cutting and drying, he was; a government officer; in his way (and in most other people's too), a professed pugilist; always in training, always with a system to force down the general throat like a bolus, always to be heard of at the bar of his little Public-office, ready to fight all England.
-- We hope to have, before long, a board of fact, composed of commissioners of fact, who will force the people to be a people of fact, and of nothing but fact.
-- Tell Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, of your district schools and your model schools, and your training schools, and your whole kettle-of-fish of schools; and Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, tells you plainly, all right, all correct he hadn't such advantages but let us have hard-headed, solid-fisted people the education that made him won't do for everybody, he knows well such and such his education was, however, and you may force him to swallow boiling fat, but you shall never force him to suppress the facts of his life.'
-- The whole company perceived the force of the change, and drew a long breath together, that plainly said, 'she will go!'
-- It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse, at any single moment in the soul of one of these its quiet servants, with the composed faces and the regulated actions.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Our vessel now felt the full force of the ocean waves, and the wind shifting, we with great difficulty made t he Faroe Isles.
-- My uncle, on the other hand, was quite as devoted to his arsenal as to his collection of instruments, and above all was very careful with his provision of fulminating or gun cotton, warranted to keep in any climate, and of which the expansive force was known to be greater than that of ordinary gunpowder.
-- Long before the existence of volcanoes, it was composed of a solid body of massive trap rock lifted bodily and slowly out of the sea, by the action of the centrifugal force at work in the earth.
-- After the basaltic eruption was appeased and set at rest, the volcano, the force of which increased with that of the extinct craters, gave free passage to the fiery overflow of lava, and to the mass of cinders and pumice stone, now scattered over the sides of the mountain, like disheveled hair on the shoulders of a Bacchante.
-- How can you expect springs to force t heir way through these solid stone walls?"
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