once是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 一次, 曾经conj. 一(旦) …就…n. 一次,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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I thought I'd better tell you at once why I had come to see you," I said, not without embarrassment.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The once slave, though free, would not leave his master.
-- In three hours we will attempt the passage, and once on the other side, we will try to get out of this scrape, and I hope may find the captain."
-- Chapter 4 All at once the reporter sprang up, and telling the sailor that he would rejoin them at that same place, he climbed the cliff in the direction which the Negro Neb had taken a few hours before.
-- And his turn for natural history was, more than once in the course of time, of great use, and he was not mistaken in this instance.
-- "I don't deny it," replied Pencroft, "but the savages must know how to do it or employ a peculiar wood, for more than once I have tried to get fire in that way, but I could never manage it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Once more opening his mouth and shutting his eyes, and laughing like a stentor, Kit gradually backed to the door, and roared himself out.
-- The closing of a door or window in the street brought me before the curiosity-dealer's once more; I crossed the road and looked up at the house to assure myself that the noise had not come from there.
-- Discovering his mistake after a while, he appeared to grow rather sleepy and discontented, and had more than once suggested the propriety of an immediate departure, when the door opened, and the child herself appeared.
-- 'Then let me tell him once for all, through you, that I will come into and go out of this place as often as I like, so long as he keeps Nell here; and that if he wants to be quit of me, he must first be quit of her.
-- It will be sufficient to say that the lesson was given that evening passed and night came on that the old man again grew restless and impatient that he quitted the house secretly at the same hour as before and that the child was once more left alone within its gloomy walls.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In one of these intelligence offices she once met a lady richly dressed and adorned with diamonds.
-- He felt now as he did once when out game shooting, when he was obliged to kill a wounded bird--he was filled with disgust, pity and vexation.
-- "These girls are rogues," said the clerk, and to sustain his opinion that Maslova was the chief culprit, he related how one of those girls once stole a watch from a friend of his.
-- But Siberia and penal servitude at once destroyed the possibility of their meeting again.
-- He remembered how he once had prided himself upon his rectitude; how he always made it a rule to tell the truth, and was in reality truthful, and how he was now steeped in falsehood--falsehood which was recognized as truth by all those around him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At once a quaintly pretty little figure in chequered purple and white followed my gesture, and then astonished me by imitating the sound of thunder.
-- Even in our own time certain tendencies and desires, once necessary to survival, are a constant source of failure.
-- Once I fell headlong and cut my face; I lost no time in stanching the blood, but jumped up and ran on, with a warm trickle down my cheek and chin.
-- But, as you know, I wanted the Time Machine, and I tried him once more.
-- Further, I threw a scrap of paper into the throat of one, and, instead of fluttering slowly down, it was at once sucked swiftly out of sight.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And once she had really frightened her old nurse by shouting suddenly in her ear, 'Nurse!Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyaena, and you're a bone.'
-- So, resolutely turning her back upon the house, she set out once more down the path, determined to keep straight on till she got to the hill.
-- This sounded nonsense to Alice, so she said nothing, but set off at once towards the Red Queen.
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