sensational是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adj. 轰动的,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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hol-mes himself had said that no more complex case had come to him in all the long series of his sensational investigations.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A journalist obtained access to his laboratory in the capacity of laboratory-assistant, with the deliberate intention of making sensational exposures; and by the help of a shocking accident (if it was an accident), his gruesome pamphlet became notorious.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They don't talk about saving lives but about 'losing cases'--losing dollars!And they wouldn't even mind losing cases if it was a sensational operation that'd advertise 'em!They make me sick!How many of 'em do you find that're interested in the work Ehrlich is doing in Germany-- yes, or that Max Gottlieb is doing right here and now!Gottlieb's just taken an awful fall out of Wright's opsonin theory."
-- Passionate, beautiful days!Die goldene Zeit!His first classes in America, at Queen City College, had been awed by the sensational discoveries in bacteriology; they had crowded about him reverently; they had longed to know.
-- Huh!If they only could understand it, trouble is I can't be sensational enough!Still, I try, I try, and-- Look here.
-- There was no sickness on it all the way; there was no reason why at Marseilles it should not lie next to a tramp steamer, nor why that steamer, pitching down to Montevideo with nothing more sensational than a discussion between the supercargo and the second officer in the matter of a fifth ace, should not berth near the S.S. Pendown Castle, bound for the island of St. Hubert to add cocoa to its present cargo of lumber.
-- Holabird himself had been appointed Acting Director of the Institute, and as such he chanted: The reports of your work in the letters from Mr. McGurk's agents which the quarantine authorities have permitted to get through to us apprize us far more than does your own modest report what a really sensational success you have had.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Dey's in yo' skirt pocket," said Prissy, who had been hovering behind Scarlett, enjoying the sensational drama.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But between two particular people, any two people on earth, the range of pure sensational experience is limited.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Here the lecture began, but Jo heard very little of it, for while Professor Sands was prosing away about Belzoni, Cheops, scarabei, and hieroglyphics, she was covertly tak-ing down the address of the paper, and boldly resolving to try for the hundred-dollar prize offered in its columns for a sensational story.
-- Following Mr. Dashwood's directions, and making Mrs. Northbury her model, Jo rashly took a plunge into the frothy sea of sensational literature, but thanks to the life preserver thrown her by a friend, she came up again not much the worse for her ducking.
-- 'They are trash, and will soon be worse trash if I go on, for each is more sensational than the last.
-- Jo wrote no more sensational stories, deciding that the money did not pay for her share of the sensation, but going to the other extreme, as is the way with people of her stamp, she took a course of Mrs. Sherwood, Miss Edgeworth, and Hannah More, and then produced a tale which might have been more properly called an essay or a sermon, so intensely moral was it.
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