various是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 各种各样的; 不同的,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Away they all went, twenty couples at once; hands half round and back again the other way; down the middle and up again; round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping; old top couple always turning up in the wrong place; new top couple starting off again, as soon as they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The answers to this question were various and contra-dictory.
-- Consequently, another drawer, and two porters, and several maids and the landlady, were all loitering by accident at various points of the road between the Concord and the coffee-room, when a gentleman of sixty, formally dressed in a brown suit of clothes, pretty well worn, but very well kept, with large square cuffs and large flaps to the pockets, passed along on his way to his breakfast.
-- His few common tools and various scraps of leather were at his feet and on his bench.
-- 'WeB, well,' said the old clerk; 'we aa have our various ways of gaining a livelihood.
-- Whatever gloss the various spectators put upon the interest, according to their several arts and powers of self-deceit, the interest was, at the root of it, Ogreish.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Certainly, none of the Em-peror's various suits, had ever made so great an impression, as these invisible ones.
-- In a police-office, consequently, we find copying-clerks among many other scribes of various denominations, of which, it seems, our hero was one.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One, the lower class, vulgar, stupid, and, above all, ridiculous people, who believe that one husband ought to live with the one wife whom he has lawfully married; that a girl should be innocent, a woman modest, and a man manly, self-controlled, and strong; that one ought to bring up one's children, earn one's bread, and pay one's debts; and various similar absurdities.
-- One circle was her husband's government official set, consisting of his colleagues and subordinates, brought together in the most various and capricious manner, and belonging to different social strata.
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch had gone down to his room, undressed, again washed, and attired in a nightshirt with goffered frills, he had got into bed, but Levin still lingered in his room, talking of various trifling matters, and not daring to ask what he wanted to know.
-- The evening before, Countess Lidia Ivanovna had sent him a pamphlet by a celebrated traveler in China, who was staying in Petersburg, and with it she enclosed a note begging him to see the traveler himself, as he was an extremely interesting person from various points of view, and likely to be useful.
-- Now, in our own day, we landowners in the serf times used various improvements in our husbandry: drying machines and thrashing machines, and carting manure and all the modern implements--all that we brought into use by our authority, and the peasants opposed it at first, and ended by imitating us.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Seen in the various phases of his daily life, he gave the idea of being perfectly well-balanced, as exactly regulated as a Leroy chronometer.
-- Little by little the scene on the quay became more animated; sailors of various nations, merchants, ship-brokers, porters, fellahs, bustled to and fro as if the steamer were immediately expected.
-- Among the passengers was a number of officials and military officers of various grades, the latter being either attached to the regular British forces or commanding the Sepoy troops, and receiving high salaries ever since the central government has assumed the powers of the East India Company: for the sub-lieutenants get 280 pounds, brigadiers, 2,400 pounds, and generals of divisions, 4,000 pounds.
-- The young woman was placed in one of the waiting-rooms of the station, whilst Passepartout was charged with purchasing for her various articles of toilet, a dress, shawl, and some furs; for which his master gave him unlimited credit.
-- Another reproduced the most singular combinations with a spinning-top; in his hands the revolving tops seemed to be animated with a life of their own in their interminable whirling; they ran over pipe-stems, the edges of sabres, wires and even hairs stretched across the stage; they turned around on the edges of large glasses, crossed bamboo ladders, dispersed into all the corners, and produced strange musical effects by the combination of their various pitches of tone.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The whole of Clif was more than the sum of his various parts.
-- That various girl wallflowers were sitting near him, waiting to be asked, did not occur to him either.
-- Various faculty members have complained of your superior attitude-- making fun of our courses right out in class!But Dr. Gottlieb has always warmly defended you.
-- While the others drifted, often by chance, often through relatives, into their various classes, Martin remained doubtful.
-- They spent hours sitting on their beds, arguing surgery versus internal medicine, planning the dinners which they hoped to enjoy on their nights off, and explaining to Martin, as the only married man, the virtues of the various nurses with whom, one by one, they fell in love.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There were various other reasons owing to which Dounia could not hope to escape from that awful 50 Crime and Punishmenthouse for another six weeks.
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