spite是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 恶意; 怨恨,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:
-- Old Slattery, who clung persistently to hisfew acres, in spite of repeated offers from Gerald and John Wilkes, was shiftless and whining.
-- As usualin the very young, she marveled that people could be so selfishly oblivious to her pain and the world rock along justthe same, in spite of her heartbreak.
-- As his voice droned on Scarlett's thoughts strayed, in spite of herself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over?"
-- "Because, if it is to spite her," Biddy pursued, "I should think--but you know best--that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words.
-- He was a young-looking man, in spite of his perplexities and his very gray hair, and his manner seemed quite natural.
-- I laughed in spite of myself all the time, the whole thing was so droll; and yet I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution,--not for old associations' sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very uphill and downhill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything.
-- "I am glad to have your approbation, gentlemen," said Mr. Waldengarver, with an air of dignity, in spite of his being ground against the wall at the time, and holding on by the seat of the chair.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 180 Grimms' Fairy Tales Then the blood ran cold in her heart with spite and mal-ice, to see that Snowdrop still lived; and she dressed herself up again, but in quite another dress from the one she wore before, and took with her a poisoned comb.
-- And as he was cold, he lighted himself a fire, but at midnight the wind blew so sharply that in spite of his fire, he could not get warm.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was reckoned that above a hundred thousand inhabitants came out of the town upon the same errand; and, in spite of my guards, I believe there could not be fewer than ten thousand at several times, who mounted my body by the help of lad-ders.
-- 56 Gulliver's TravelsThese I took out and fastened as strongly as I could upon my nose, and thus armed, went on boldly with my work, in spite of the enemy's arrows, many of which struck against the glasses of my spectacles, but without any other effect, further than a little to discompose them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Whether, in spite of all precautions, any idle story-book can have got into the house?
-- That bereaved lady, fifteen years older than he, fell presently at deadly feud with her only relative, Lady Scadgers; and, partly to spite her ladyship, and partly to maintain herself, went out at a salary.
-- Spite o' all that, they can be set free for smaller wrongs than mine.
-- But, in spite of being thus forearmed, he entered his own house with anything but a courageous air; and appeared before the object of his misgivings, like a dog who was conscious of coming direct from the pantry.
-- 'Well, ma'am,' returned Bounderby, with some resentment in his tone: which was clearly lowered, though in spite of himself, 'I am obliged to you.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In spite of all the learned theories of Professor Hardwigg, a fierce and vehement fire certainly burned within the entrails of the great spheroid.
-- It was evident, nevertheless, that the air under a pressure which might be multiplied by thousands of atmospheres, would end by becoming perfectly solid, and that then admitting our bodies resisted the pressure, we should have to stop, in spite of all the reasonings in the world.
-- The air seemed to have no effect upon these trees--which in spite of a tolerable breeze remained as still and motionless as if they had been petrified.
-- We kept running in spite of ourselves.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Chatterleys, two brothers and a sister, had lived curi-ously isolated, shut in with one another at Wragby, in spite of all their connexions.
-- A sense of isolation intensified the family tie, a sense of the weakness of their position, a sense of defencelessness, in spite of, or because of, the title and the land.
-- Michaelis obviously wasn't an Englishman, in spite of all the tailors, hatters, barbers, booters of the very best quar-ter of London.
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