wonder是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 惊奇, 惊异; 奇迹, 奇事v. (at) 诧异; 想知道,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There is good music to be heard, so no wonder it is popular.
-- That is why I wonder whether such a man is not too hospitable for you and me.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When they saw Helen coming towards the tower, they said softly to one another, 'Small wonder that Trojans and Achaeans should endure so much and so long, for the sake of a woman so marvellously and divinely lovely.
-- Then he said to his men, 'My friends, how can we wonder that Hector wields the spear so well?
-- He made the shield in five thicknesses, and with many a wonder did his cunning hand enrich it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I wonder where you found it," said Mrs. Hall.
-- "That I wonder where you found it," said Mrs. Hall.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I wonder what can have happened,' he said to himself.
-- I wonder when it's going to begin.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then Shere Khan would flatter them and wonder that such fine young hunters were content to be led by a dy-ing wolf and a man's cub.
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:
-- At a respectful distance from this unusual show, were gathered divers groups of curious idlers; some admiring the blood and bone of the high-mettled military charger, and others gazing at the preparations, with the dull wonder of vulgar curiosity.
-- Since you trusted yourself to the care of one of that nation, I only wonder that you have not fallen in with more.'
-- I only wonder he has escaped with life.'
-- 'In truth, we have a little wonder why you should so rigidly absent yourself from a place where the gratitude of the daughters might receive the support of a parent's thanks.'
-- His name was mentioned, and all looked round in wonder that he did not appear.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When we had done discussing the merits of the latest book, it was natural to wonder how many copies had been sold, what advance the author had received, and how much he was likely to make out of it.
-- It was the kind of party which makes you wonder why the hostess has troubled to bid her guests, and why the guests have troubled to come.
-- Even if he was tired of me, I wonder that he had the heart to leave them.
-- "I wonder if one can live quite comfortably when one's conscious of the disapproval of one's fellows?
-- "I wonder if I could write on a desert island, with the certainty that no eyes but mine would ever see what I had written."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That constant pacing to and fro, that never-ending restlessness, that incessant tread of feet wearing the rough stones smooth and glossy is it not a wonder how the dwellers in narrows ways can bear to hear it!Think of a sick man in such a place as Saint Martin's Court, listening to the footsteps, and in the midst of pain and weariness obliged, despite himself (as though it were a task he must perform) to detect the child's step from the man's, the slipshod beggar from the booted exquisite, the lounging from the busy, the dull heel of the sauntering outcast from the quick tread of an expectant pleasure-seeker think of the hum and noise always being present to his sense, and of the stream of life that will not stop, pouring on, on, on, through all his restless dreams, as if he were condemned to lie, dead but conscious, in a noisy churchyard, and had no hope of rest for centuries to come.
-- Covent Garden Market at sunrise too, in the spring or summer, when the fragrance of sweet flowers is in the air, over-powering even the unwholesome streams of last night's debauchery, and driving the dusky thrush, whose cage has hung outside a garret window all night long, half mad with joy!Poor bird!the only neighbouring thing at all akin to the other little captives, some of whom, shrinking from the hot hands of drunken purchasers, lie drooping on the path already, while others, soddened by close contact, await the time when they shall be watered and freshened up to please more sober company, and make old clerks who pass them on their road to business, wonder what has filled their breasts with visions of the country.
-- This being a season favourable to conversation, and the room being a cool, shady, lazy kind of place, with some plants at the open window shutting out the dust, and interposing pleasantly enough between the tea table within and the old Tower without, it is no wonder that the ladies felt an inclination to talk and linger, especially when there are taken into account the additional inducements of fresh butter, new bread, shrimps, and watercresses.
-- Nor was this the only start Mr Swiveller had of the market-gardener, for determining to show the family what quality of man they trifled with, and influenced perhaps by his late libations, he performed such feats of agility and such spins and twirls as filled the company with astonishment, and in particular caused a very long gentleman who was dancing with a very short scholar, to stand quite transfixed by wonder and admiration.
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