surely是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 确实; 稳当地,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:
-- That thrust of the buttocks, surely it was a little ridiculous.
-- If you were a woman, and a part in all the business, surely that thrusting of the man's buttocks was supremely ridiculous.
-- Surely the man was in-tensely ridiculous in this posture and this act!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'But surely this is not the way to do the business,' Arthur Clennam could not help saying.
-- If he were a criminal offender, he must surely be an incorrigible hypocrite; and if he were no offender, why should Mr Meagles have collared him in the Circumlocution Office?
-- Strange, if the little sick-room light were in effect a watch-light, burning in that place every night until an appointed event should be watched out!Which of the vast multitude of travellers, under the sun and the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another; which of the host may, with no suspicion of the journey's end, be travelling surely hither?
-- Only the wisdom that holds the clue to all hearts and all mysteries, can surely know to what extent a man, especially a man brought down as this man had been, can impose upon himself.
-- Surely the goods of this world, it occurred in an accidental way to Bishop to remark, could scarcely be directed into happier channels than when they accumulated under the magic touch of the wise and sagacious, who, while they knew the just value of riches (Bishop tried here to look as if he were rather poor himself), were aware of their importance, judiciously governed and rightly distributed, to the welfare of our brethren at large.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Why should I complain, when we both have merely done our duty and will surely be the happier for it in the end?
-- As she spoke, Jo bent over the leaves to hide the trem-bling of her lips, for lately she had felt that Margaret was fast getting to be a woman, and Laurie's secret made her dread the separation which must surely come some time and now seemed very near.
-- She soon became interested in her work, for her emaci-ated purse grew stout, and the little hoard she was making to take Beth to the mountains next summer grew slowly but surely as the weeks passed.
-- I may be a little late, but I shall surely come.'
-- Then his eyes would turn to Jo so wistfully that she would have surely answered the mute inquiry if she had seen it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Surely all this is not without meaning.
-- Surely this was a touch of fine philosophy; though no doubt he had never heard there was such a thing as that.
-- From this one poor hunt, then, the best lance out of all Nantucket, surely he will not hang back, when every foremast-hand has clutched a whetstone?
-- That for six thousand years and no one knows how many millions of ages before the great whales should have been spouting all over the sea, and sprinkling and mistifying the gardens of the deep, as with so many sprinkling or mistifying pots; and that for some centuries back, thousands of hunters should have been close by the fountain of the whale, watching these sprinklings and spoutings that all this should be, and yet, that down to this blessed minute (fifteen and a quarter minutes past one o'clock P.M. of this sixteenth day of December, A.D. 1851), it should still remain a problem, whether these spoutings are, after all, really water, or nothing but vapor this is surely a noteworthy thing.
-- Surely not.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The worm does not work more surely on the dead body, than does this slow creeping fire upon the living frame.
-- But, then, the thought darted across his mind that it was barely eleven o'clock; and that many people were still in the streets: of whom surely some might be found to give credence to his tale.
-- Listen to me, who with six words, can strangle Sikes as surely as if I had his bull's throat between my fingers now.
-- After a short return of the stupor in which he had been so long plunged, Oliver: urged by a creeping sickness at his heart, which seemed to warn him that if he lay there, he must surely die: got upon his feet, and essayed to walk.
-- 'Surely there is no danger of anything so dreadful?'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It would surely be much more rational if conversa-tion instead of dancing were made the order of the day.'
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