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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I imagine that various thoughts must beat loud and fast through his head all unfinished ones, and strange, funny thoughts, very likely! like this, for in-stance: 'That man is looking at me, and he has a wart on his forehead!and the executioner has burst one of his but-tons, and the lowest one is all rusty!'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His hands would go ever and again to his various pockets with a curious nervous fumbling.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'We all seem to be affected in various ways,' he went on, blowing his nose.
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:
-- The French had accounted for this unexpected de- fection on the part of their ally in various ways.
-- His robe was of the finest skins, which had been deprived of their fur, in order to admit of a hieroglyphi-cal representation of various deeds in arms, done in former ages.
-- His bosom was loaded with medals, some in mas-sive silver, and one or two even in gold, the gifts of various Christian potentates during the long period of his life.
-- After this disposition, the young Mohican appointed various native chiefs to fill the different situations of re-sponsibility, and, the time pressing, he gave forth the word to march.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That all this might not be too onerous on the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to considered the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones he had various ways of rendering himself both use-ful and agreeable.
-- Under this were hung flails, har- ness, various utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighboring river.
-- Benches were built along the sides for summer use; and a great spinning-wheel at one end, and a churn at the other, showed the various uses to which this important porch might be devoted.
-- Such heaped up platters of cakes of various and almost indescrib-able kinds, known only to experienced Dutch housewives!
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:
-- By a lucky chance it excited attention, and various persons sought my acquaintance.
-- There were no flowers, and various knick-knacks, put away during the summer, had not been replaced; there was something cheerless and stiff about the room which had always seemed so friendly; it gave you an odd feeling, as though someone were lying dead on the other side of the wall.
-- She had had the idea of giving it a certain daintiness, and she made much use of blue and red inks; she bound the copy in coarse paper, that looked vaguely like watered silk, in various pale colours; and she had acquired a reputation for neatness and accuracy.
-- For the most part, they keep their various activities in various compartments, and they can pursue one to the temporary exclusion of the other.
-- My fancy played with the various forms of fraud and violence, and I agreed with him sympathetically when he remarked that the authorities in the old country were so damned technical.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He did not speak, but he gazed; and, no doubt, the appearance of the country, with its inequalities of ground, its forests, its various productions, were impressed on his mind.
-- Black, white, or gray cockatoos, paroquets, with plumage of all colors, kingfishers of a sparkling green and crowned with red, blue lories, and various other birds appeared on all sides, as through a prism, fluttering about and producing a deafening clamor.
-- This syrup was poured into clay molds, previously fabricated in the kitchen stove, and to which they had given various shapes.
-- It was surrounded by a palisade, and in it were constructed various shelters for the birds which were to populate it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There were suits of mail standing like ghosts in armour here and there, fantastic carvings brought from monkish cloisters, rusty weapons of various kinds, distorted figures in china and wood and iron and ivory: tapestry and strange furniture that might have been designed in dreams.
-- He wandered up and down the house and into and out of the various rooms, as if with some vague intent of bidding them adieu, but he referred neither by direct allusions nor in any other manner to the interview of the morning or the necessity of finding some other shelter.
-- As the travellers had observed that day many indications of their drawing nearer and nearer to the race town, such as gipsy camps, carts laden with gambling booths and their appurtenances, itinerant showmen of various kinds, and beggars and trampers of every degree, all wending their way in the same direction, Mr Codlin was fearful of finding the accommodations forestalled; this fear increasing as he diminished the distance between himself and the hostelry, he quickened his pace, and notwithstanding the burden he had to carry, maintained a round trot until he reached the threshold.
-- However, he did nothing of the kind, but instead thereof assisted a stout servant girl in turning the contents of the cauldron into a large tureen; a proceeding which the dogs, proof against various hot splashes which fell upon their noses, watched with terrible eagerness.
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