aid是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 援助, 救护; 助手, 辅助物vi. 援助, 救援,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:
-- At last in the stress of her fear she did that which might have daunted the bravest or most active man, for by the aid of the growth of ivy which covered (and still covers) the south wall she came down from under the eaves, and so homeward across the moor, there being three leagues betwixt the Hall and her father's farm.
-- If I had any indication of the nature of your suspicions or how you propose to investi-gate the case, I might perhaps even now give you some aid or advice.'
-- If I have to call in the aid of the police you will find how seriously you are compromised.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In another moment, of course, the police would have been on the spot, and it would have gone hard with Nasta-sia Philipovna had not unexpected aid appeared.
-- I quite understood your broth-er when he first offered me aid against the prince, though I did not show it; I knew well that your brother was making a ridiculous mistake in me.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Go to Olympus, and if you have ever done him service in word or deed, implore the aid of Jove.
-- At this Jove was much troubled and answered, 'I shall have trouble if you set me quarrelling with Juno, for she will provoke me with her taunting speeches; even now she is al-ways railing at me before the other gods and accusing me of giving aid to the Trojans.
-- Ajax son of Telamon pitied them in their fall; he came close up and hurled his spear, hitting Amphius the son of Selagus, a man of great wealth who lived in Paesus and owned much corn-growing land, but his lot had led him to come to the aid of Priam and his sons.
-- He ought to be going about imploring aid from all the princes of the Achaeans, for we are in extreme danger.'
-- The sons of the Achaeans would now have taken Troy by the hands of Patroclus, for his spear flew in all directions, had not Phoebus Apollo taken his stand upon the wall to defeat his purpose and to aid the Trojans.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Miss Statchell sang it at the schoolroom concert (in aid of the church lamps), and thereafter whenever one or two of the villagers were gathered together and the stranger appeared, a bar or so of this tune, more or less sharp or flat, was whistled in the midst of them.
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:
-- 'Graves bring solemn feelings over the mind,' returned the scout, a good deal touched at the calm suffering of his companion; 'and they often aid a man in his good - intentions; though, for myself, I expect to leave my own bones unburied, to bleach in the woods, or to be torn asunder by the wolves.
-- Then recollecting the importance of securing the fugitive, he dashed aside the surrounding bushes, and pressed eagerly forward to lend his aid in the chase.
-- When assured that all was still, and unable to detect, even by the aid of his practiced senses, any sign of his approaching foes, he would deliberately re-sume his slow and guarded progress.
-- Still ignorant of the fate of those who had trusted to the aid of the swift current, he at first listened intently to any signal or sounds of alarm, which might announce the good or evil fortune of their hazardous undertaking.
-- And when he saw what he wished to do, did we not aid him, by mak-ing a false face, that the Hurons might think the white man believed that his friend was his enemy?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He then thanked his companions, and added, that he would rely on their energy and on the aid of Heaven.
-- He soon made some snares with creepers, by the aid of which the warren henceforth every day furnished its quota of rodents.
-- The tide was already strong, for in three days the moon would be full, and it was enough to keep the boat in the center of the current, where it floated swiftly along between the high banks without its being necessary to increase its speed by the aid of the oars.
-- "No, captain, with the aid of time and tempest.
-- The shore was of course examined with the same care from the edge of the water to the cliff, and nothing could be discovered even with the aid of the instrument.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Their owners had evidently come to that spot to make some needful repairs in the stage arrangements, for one of them was engaged in binding together a small gallows with thread, while the other was intent upon fixing a new black wig, with the aid of a small hammer and some tacks, upon the head of the radical neighbour, who had been beaten bald.
-- A mighty fire was blazing on the hearth and roaring up the wide chimney with a cheerful sound, which a large iron cauldron, bubbling and simmering in the heat, lent its pleasant aid to swell.
-- Then, with the aid of a phosphorus-box and some matches, he procured a light and applied it to a spirit-lamp which had a place of its own below the temple; then, he shut down the lids of all the little chambers; then he opened them; and then, by some wonderful and unseen agency, the steak was done, the egg was boiled, the coffee was accurately prepared, and his breakfast was ready.
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