conspicuous是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 明显的, 引人注目的,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:
-- It was impossible to avoid noticing them, however, in re-ality, for they made their presence only too conspicuous by laughing and talking loudly.
-- People looked out for her at the funeral, too, but she was not there; and another conspicuous absentee was the captain's widow, whom Leb-edeff had prevented from coming.
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:
-- ' Othello he bloody and inhuman scene rather incidentally men-Ttioned than described in the preceding chapter, is conspicuous in the pages of colonial history by the merited title of 'The Massacre of William Henry.'
-- One warrior in particular, a man of wild and ferocious mien, had been conspicuous for the attention he had given to the words of the speaker.
-- One of the most conspicuous of the chiefs who fought in the bat-tle of Miami assured the writer, that the red men could not fight the warriors with 'long knives and leather stockings"; meaning the dragoons with their sabers and boots.
-- Magua was conspicuous in this party, both by his fierce and savage mien, and by the air of haughty authority he yet maintained.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At length there sauntered up, on the opposite side of the way with a bad pretense of passing by accident a figure conspicuous for its dirty smartness, which after a great many frowns and jerks of the head, in resistance of the invitation, ultimately crossed the road and was brought into the shop.
-- Richard Swiveller was utterly aghast at this unexpected alteration of circumstances, which threatened the complete overthrow of the project in which he bore so conspicuous a part, and seemed to nip his prospects in the bud.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was conspicuous far to sea both on the east and west and might have been entered as a sailing mark upon the chart.
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:
-- The wounded, sardonic young man moved away, ignoring his bleeding hand in the most conspicuous fashion.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His grand distinguishing feature, the fin, from which he derives his name, is often a conspicuous object.
-- And since the nose is the central and most conspicuous of the features; and since it perhaps most modifies and finally controls their combined expression; hence it would seem that its entire absence, as an external appendage, must very largely affect the countenance of the whale.
-- This rampart is pierced by several sally-ports for the convenience of ships and whales; conspicuous among which are the straits of Sunda and Malacca.
-- Arrayed in decent black; occupying a conspicuous pulpit; intent on bible leaves; what a candidate for an archbishopric, what a lad for a Pope were this mincer!
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was sitting by Edward, and in taking his tea from Mrs. Dashwood, his hand passed so directly before her, as to make a ring, with a plait of hair in the centre, very conspicuous on one of his fingers.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This, she knew, would be an embarrassing thing if he made himself conspicuous in any way.
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