violence是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 猛烈, 强烈; 暴力, 暴行; 强暴,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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The intense cold quickly kills travelers, and those who even manage to hold out against it fall victims to the violence of the TEMPORALES, a sort of hurricane peculiar to those regions, which yearly fills the abysses of the Cordilleras with dead bodies.
-- No sign of decrease appeared on the surface of the immense lake, yet the flood seemed to have reached its maximum height; but the violence with which it rushed from the south to north proved that the equilibrium of the Argentine rivers was not restored.
-- Louder peals of thunder interrupted this inopportune conversation, the violence increasing with the noise till the whole atmosphere seemed to vibrate with rapid oscillations.
-- The violence of the storm had abated, but it had developed in the atmosphere a considerable quantity of vapors, to which electricity was about to communicate immense force.
-- The only question was, how long would she hold out with so little sail, and what sail could resist such violence for any length of time.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No signs of violence were to be discovered upon Sir Charles's person, and though the doctor's evidence pointed to an almost incredible facial distortion so great that Dr. Mortimer refused at first to believe that it was in-deed his friend and patient who lay before him it was explained that that is a symptom which is not unusual in cases of dyspnoea and death from cardiac exhaustion.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This was the presentment of a poor mangled body which had evidently suffered unbearable anguish even be-fore its crucifixion, full of wounds and bruises, marks of the violence of soldiers and people, and of the bitterness of the moment when He had fallen with the cross all this com-bined with the anguish of the actual crucifixion.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Neptune was very angry and said, 'Great heavens!strong as Jove may be, he has said more than he can do if he has threatened violence against me, who am of like honour with himself.
-- As soon as Juno heard this she said to her son Vulcan, 'Son Vulcan, hold now your flames; we ought not to use such violence against a god for the sake of mortals.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- with such extraordinary violence that he silenced her instantly.
-- "But a fool of a cabman, standing outside a public house, made a sudden rush for this, and his extending fingers took me with excruciating violence under the ear.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Here at least was one visi-tor to the island disposed of!There were no traces of other violence about it.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The rich ornaments of his military attire had indeed been repeatedly handled by different in- dividuals of the tribes with eyes expressing a savage longing to possess the baubles; but before the customary violence could be resorted to, a mandate in the authoritative voice of the large warrior, already mentioned, stayed the uplifted hand, and convinced Heyward that they were to be reserved for some object of particular moment.
-- shouted Magua, hurling his tomahawk with violence at the unresisting speaker, and gnashing his teeth with a rage that could no longer be bridled at this sudden exhibition of firmness in the one he believed the weakest of the party.
-- Seizing Cora by the rich tresses which fell in confusion about her form, he tore her from her frantic hold, and bowed her down with brutal violence to her knees.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- While we were in this condition - the men yet labouring at the oar to bring the boat near the shore - we could see (when, our boat mounting the waves, we were able to see the shore) a great many people running along the strand to assist us when we should come near; but we made but slow way towards the shore; nor were we able to reach the shore till, being past the lighthouse at Winterton, the shore falls off to the westward towards Cromer, and so the land broke off a little the violence of the wind.
-- Evil: I am without any defence, or means to resist any violence of man or beast.
-- I was surprised with this at first, but soon concluded it must be done by the earthquake; and as by this violence the ship was more broke open than formerly, so many things came daily on shore, which the sea had loosened, and which the winds and water rolled by degrees to the land.
-- But now, when I began to be sick, and a leisurely view of the miseries of death came to place itself before me; when my spirits began to sink under the burden of a strong distem-per, and nature was exhausted with the violence of the fever; conscience, that had slept so long, began to awake, and I be-gan to reproach myself with my past life, in which I had so evidently, by uncommon wickedness, provoked the justice of God to lay me under uncommon strokes, and to deal with me in so vindictive a manner.
-- When I saw them clear red, I let them stand in that heat about five or six hours, till I found one of them, though it did not crack, did melt or run; for the sand which was mixed with the clay melted by the violence of the heat, and would have run into glass if I had gone on; so I slacked my fire gradually till the pots began to abate of the red colour; and watching them all night, that I might not let the fire abate too fast, in the morning I had three very good (I will not say hand-some) pipkins, and two other earthen pots, as hard burnt as could be desired, and one of them perfectly glazed with the running of the sand.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They encouraged each other now in the violence of their affliction.
-- Such violence of affliction indeed could not be supported for ever; it sunk within a few days into a calmer melancholy; but these employments, to which she daily recurred, her solitary walks and silent meditations, still produced occasional effusions of sorrow as lively as ever.
-- If the violence of her passions, the weakness of her understanding I do not mean, however, to defend myself.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There had been no great violence done.
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