genius是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 天才, 天才人物; 才华,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The fog and frost so hung about the black old gateway of the house, that it seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat in mournful meditation on the threshold.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They had al-ready got the length of opening the hearse to take the coffin out, when some brighter genius proposed instead, its being escorted to its destination amidst general rejoicing.
-- The dead man disposed of, and the crowd being under 222 A tale of two citiesthe necessity of providing some other entertainment for itself, another brighter genius (or perhaps the same) con-ceived the humour of impeaching casual passers-by, as Old Bailey spies, and wreaking vengeance on them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT TAKES A TOO GREAT INTEREST IN HIS MASTER,AND WHAT COMES OF ITHong Kong is an island which came into the possession of the English by the Treaty of Nankin, after the war of 1842; and the colonising genius of the English has created upon it an important city and an excellent port.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Well, when one of you scientific sharks can take the genius of a Ben Jonson and measure it with a yardstick, then I'll admit that we literary chaps, with our doubtless absurd belief in beauty and loyalty and the world o' dreams, are off on the wrong track!"
-- Then he remembered the wrinkles, and he saw Max Gottlieb not as a genius but as a man who had headaches, who became agonizingly tired, who could be loved.
-- He believed in morality--except on Saturday evenings; he believed in the Episcopal Church--but not the High Church; he believed in the Constitution, Darwinism, systematic exercise in the gymnasium, and the genius of the president of the university.
-- "Probably not--and until some genius like yourself, Arrowsmith, can herd together a few hundred people with exactly identical cases of erysipelas, it probably never will be tried!Meanwhile I trust that you other gentlemen, who perhaps lack Mr. Arrowsmith's profound scientific attainments and the power to use such handy technical terms as 'control,' will, merely on my feeble advice, continue to use ichthyol!"
-- She had a genius for frank passion; she teased him, tantalized him, but she was tender and unafraid.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And what a fool I was about it!Well, he's simply a genius of hypocrisy and resourcefulness in disarming the suspi-cions of the lawyers so there's nothing much to wonder at, I suppose!Of course people like that are always possible.
-- Napoleon attracted him tre-mendously, that is, what affected him was that a great many men of genius have not hesitated at wrongdoing, but have overstepped the law without thinking about it.
-- He seems to have fancied that he was a genius too that is, he was convinced of it for a time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Thus it was that we partedwithout explanation: she waving her hand and smiling farewellfrom the coachwindow; her evil genius writhing on the roof, as ifhe had her in his clutches and triumphed.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I do not pretend to Emma's genius for foretelling and guessing.
-- Her tears fell abundantly but her grief was so truly art-less, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes and she listened to her and tried to con-sole her with all her heart and understanding really for the time convinced that Harriet was the superior creature of the two and that to resemble her would be more for her own welfare and happiness than all that genius or intelli-gence could do.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I do, I do; but no baily I deserved that place," wailed Henery, signifying wasted genius by gazing blankly at visions of a high destiny apparently visible to him on Billy Smallbury's smock-frock.
-- Gloom, the genius loci at all times hitherto, was now totally overthrown, less by the lantern-light than by what the lantern lighted.
-- Coggan carried an old pinchbeck repeater which he had inherited from some genius in his family; and it now struck one.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate; I desire, therefore, in this narration, to state those facts which led to my predilection for that science.
-- I read with ardour those works, so full of genius and discrimination, which modern inquirers have written on these subjects.
-- I paused, examining and analysing all the minutiae of cau-sation, as exemplified in the change from life to death, and death to life, until from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me a light so brilliant and wondrous, 51yet so simple, that while I became dizzy with the immen-sity of the prospect which it illustrated, I was surprised that among so many men of genius who had directed their in-quiries towards the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret.
-- Clerval desired the intercourse of the men of genius and talent who flourished at this time, but this was with me a secondary object; I was principally occupied with the means of obtaining the information necessary for the completion of my promise and quickly availed myself of the letters of introduction that I had brought with me, ad-dressed to the most distinguished natural philosophers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But he presently presented himself under worthier circumstances; for, the Genius of Youthful Love being in want of assistance,--on account of the parental brutality of an ignorant farmer who opposed the choice of his daughter's heart, by purposely falling upon the object, in a flour-sack, out of the first-floor window,--summoned a sententious Enchanter; and he, coming up from the antipodes rather unsteadily, after an apparently violent journey, proved to be Mr. Wopsle in a high-crowned hat, with a necromantic work in one volume under his arm.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of at-taining to arts and sciences; whereas, by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, po-etry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.'
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