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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But in spite of this melancholy reflection, the Frenchman submitted gracefully to the compulsory delay.
-- When he talked of returning, however, Glenarvan appealed to his companions and said:"Will you go on in spite of all the difficulty?"
-- However, in spite of their courage, the strength of the little band was giving way.
-- In spite of the perfect calmness of the atmosphere, the cold was stinging.
-- There were hundreds, perhaps thousands, of these animals, and in spite of the rarefied atmosphere, their noise was deafening.
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:
-- In spite of his considerable wealth he was simple in his personal tastes, and his indoor servants at Baskerville Hall consisted of a married couple named Barrymore, the husband act-ing as butler and the wife as housekeeper.
-- It seemed hopeless to pursue the inquiry any farther, but it was clear that in spite of Holmes's ruse we had no proof that Barrymore had not been in London all the time.
-- 'You don't mean to say that you came after me in spite of all?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A special feature of this physiognomy was its death-like pallor, which gave to the whole man an indescribably emaciated appearance in spite of his hard look, and at the same time a sort of passionate and suffering expression which did not harmonize with his impudent, sarcastic smile and keen, self-satisfied bearing.
-- And yet if these good people could only have had a peep into the mind of this excellent fellow who 'knew his place' so well!The fact is that, in spite of his knowledge of the world and his really remarkable abilities, he always liked to appear to be carrying out other people's ideas rather than his own.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- While my jealousy of him lasted, you may be sure I was every day pumping him to see if he would discover any of the new thoughts which I suspected were in him; but I found everything he said was so honest and so innocent, that I could find nothing to nourish my suspicion; and in spite of all my uneasiness, he made me at last entirely his own again; nor did he in the least perceive that I was uneasy, and therefore I could not suspect him of deceit.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The contempt which she had, very early in their acquaintance, felt for her daughter-in-law, was very much increased by the farther knowledge of her character, which half a year's residence in her family afforded; and perhaps in spite of every consideration of politeness or maternal affection on the side of the former, the two ladies might have found it impossible to have lived together so long, had not a particular circumstance occurred to give still greater eligibility, according to the opinions of Mrs. Dashwood, to her daughters' continuance at Norland.
-- It is evident, in spite of his frequent attention to her while she draws, that in fact he knows nothing of the matter.
-- His appearance however was not unpleasing, in spite of his being in the opinion of Marianne and Margaret an absolute old bachelor, for he was on the wrong side of five and thirty; but though his face was not handsome, his countenance was sensible, and his address was particularly gentlemanlike.
-- Their visitors, except those from Barton Park, were not many; for, in spite of Sir John's urgent entreaties that they would mix more in the neighbourhood, and repeated assurances of his carriage being always at their service, the independence of Mrs. Dashwood's spirit overcame the wish of society for her children; and she was resolute in declining to visit any family beyond the distance of a walk.
-- The weather was not tempting enough to draw the two others from their pencil and their book, in spite of Marianne's declaration that the day would be lastingly fair, and that every threatening cloud would be drawn off from their hills; and the two girls set off together.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She began to pull the basket over, and now, in spite of all protest, she had swung over and was going down.
-- Carrie shook her head in spite of her distress.
-- Carrie waited an hour in a dingy office, quite in spite of obstacles, to learn this fact of the placid, indifferent Mr. Dorney.
-- "I don't know," returned Carrie, warming, in spite of her first troubled feelings, toward this handsome, good-natured young matron.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I didn't want to go to school much before, but I reckoned I'd go now to spite pap.
-- It injured the frauds some; but the old fool he bulled right along, spite of all the duke could say or do, and I tell you the duke was powerful uneasy.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Pinocchio hated the dark street, but he was so hungry that, in spite of it, he ran out of the house.
-- Yet, in spite of this numbness of feeling, he suffered keenly at the thought of passing under the windows of his good little Fairy's house.
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