species是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 生物的种; 种类,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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He took up all my clothes in his pastern, one piece after another, and examined them diligently; he then stroked my body very gently, and looked round me several times; after which, he said, it was plain I must be a perfect Yahoo; but that I differed very much from the rest of my species in the softness, whiteness, and smoothness of my skin; my want of hair in several parts of my body; the shape and shortness of my claws behind and before; and my affectation of walking continually on 299my two hinder feet.
-- But having here acci-dentally mentioned a minister of state, he commanded me, some time after, to inform him, 'what species of Yahoo I particularly meant by that appellation.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Well, I grant that it is more likely than not: still, I do not see why this sea should not have given shelter to some species of unknown fish."
-- This learned man, who holds such a high place in the scientific world, holds that the soil of Moulin-Quignon does not belong to the diluvium but to a much less ancient stratum, and, in accordance with Cuvier in this respect, he would by no means admit that the human species was contemporary with the animals of the Quaternary epoch.
-- Huge palms, of a species now unknown, superb palmacites--a genus of fossil palms from the coal formation--pines, yews, cypress, and conifers or cone-bearing trees, the whole bound together by an inextricable and complicated mass of creeping plants.
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:
-- It was not that she and Clifford were unpopular, they merely belonged to another species altogether from the colliers.
-- 'Oh, but they do!I don't think since the human species was invented, there has ever been a time when men and women have liked one another as much as they do today.
-- 'Quite nice!To contemplate the extermination of the hu-man species and the long pause that follows before some other species crops up, it calms you more than anything else.
-- I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He seemed to have an insatiate delight in appealing to her and looking at her; excitedly sticking his hair up at the same moment, like a dark species of cockatoo.
-- The young gentleman who was standing in an easy attitude on the hearth, cocking his glass at the company, with his back to the blaze and his coat tucked under his arms, something as if he were Of the Poultry species and were trussed for roasting, lost countenance at this reply; he seemed about to demand further explanation, when it was discovered through all eyes turning on the speaker that the lady with him, who was young and beautiful, had not heard what had passed through having fainted with her head upon his shoulder.
-- This conjunction of circumstances led to his immediately afterwards presenting himself before the young ladies in a posture, which in ancient times would not have been considered one of favourable augury for his suit; since the gondoliers of the young ladies, having been put to some inconvenience by the chase, so neatly brought their own boat in the gentlest collision with the bark of Mr Sparkler, as to tip that gentleman over like a larger species of ninepin, and cause him to exhibit the soles of his shoes to the object of his dearest wishes: while the nobler portions of his anatomy struggled at the bottom of his boat in the arms of one of his men.
-- For example, then, said the little woman, what species of gift did Monsieur desire?
-- When they at last returned to his mother's room, they found her shading her face with her muffled hand, and talking in a low voice to the Patriarch as he stood before the fire, whose blue eyes, polished head, and silken locks, turning towards them as they came in, imparted an inestimable value and inexhaustible love of his species to his remark:'So you have been seeing the premises, seeing the premises premises seeing the premises!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So utterly lost was he to all sense of reverence for the many marvels of their majestic bulk and mystic ways; and so dead to anything like an apprehension of any possible danger from encountering them; that in his poor opinion, the wondrous whale was but a species of magnified mouse, or at least water-rat, requiring only a little circumvention and some small application of time and trouble in order to kill and boil.
-- Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular comprehensive classification, if only an easy outline one for the present, hereafter to be filled in all its departments by subsequent laborers.
-- There is a deal of obscurity concerning the identity of the species thus multitudinously baptised.
-- What then is the whale, which I include in the second species of my Folios?
-- From having the baleen in his mouth, the Fin-Back is sometimes included with the right whale, among a theoretic species denominated Whalebone whales, that is, whales with baleen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Gamfield's most sanguine estimate of his finances could not raise them within full five pounds of the desired amount; and, in a species of arthimetical desperation, he was alternately cudgelling his brains and his donkey, when passing the workhouse, his eyes encountered the bill on the gate.
-- Mr. Fagin was sufficiently well acquainted with the manners and customs of that particular species of humanity to which Nancy belonged, to feel tolerably certain that it would be rather unsafe to prolong any conversation with her, at present.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This was exemplified in me, at this time, in the most lively manner imaginable; for I, whose only affliction was that I seemed banished from human society, that I was alone, circum-scribed by the boundless ocean, cut off from mankind, and condemned to what I call silent life; that I was as one whom Heaven thought not worthy to be numbered among the liv-ing, or to appear among the rest of His creatures; that to have seen one of my own species would have seemed to me a raising me from death to life, and the greatest blessing that Heaven itself, next to the supreme blessing of salvation, could bestow; I say, that I should now tremble at the very apprehensions of seeing a man, and was ready to sink into the ground at but the shadow or silent appearance of a man having set his foot in the island.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "But he talked of flannel waistcoats," said Marianne; "and with me a flannel waistcoat is invariably connected with aches, cramps, rheumatisms, and every species of ailment that can afflict the old and the feeble."
-- He bestowed his hearty approbation however on their species of house.
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