handsome是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 漂亮的, 大方的,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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Doubtless she will know the secret of the criminal relation between that handsome woman and the old rat without a tail.
-- And now, though the bans were about to be published, and although the handsome Portuguese had come that day to break the news to the Vicomtesse, he had not found courage as yet to say one word about his treachery.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It appeared to be a handsome young man, about five and twenty years of age.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There were long squirrelguns that had been new when first the Alleghenies were crossed, old muzzle-loaders that had claimed many an Indianwhen Georgia was new, horse pistols that had seen service in 1812, in the Seminole wars and in Mexico, silver-mounted dueling pistols, pocket derringers, double-barreled hunting pieces and handsome new rifles of English makewith shining stocks of fine wood.
-- "Why Charles Hamilton, you handsome old thing, you!I'll bet you came all the way down here from Atlanta justto break my poor heart!"
-- He had always wanted girls to flirt endfrolic with him as they did with boys much less handsome and less endowed with this world's goods than he.
-- Moving from group togroup, drawling in their soft voices, they were as handsome as blooded stallions and as dangerous.
-- Turning she saw a tall handsome woman with a bold face and a mass of red hair, toored to be true.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A handsome mince-pie had been made yesterday morning (which accounted for the mincemeat not being missed), and the pudding was already on the boil.
-- Mr. Pumblechook was in favor of a handsome premium for binding me apprentice to some genteel trade,--say, the corn and seed trade, for instance.
-- "You see, Pip," Joe pursued, as soon as he was past that danger, "Miss Havisham done the handsome thing by you.
-- When Miss Havisham done the handsome thing by you, she called me back to say to me as that were all."
-- "I am instructed to communicate to him," said Mr. Jaggers, throwing his finger at me sideways, "that he will come into a handsome property.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the morning came the fox again and met him as he was beginning his journey, and said, 'Go straight forward, till you come to a castle, before which lie a whole troop of soldiers fast asleep and snoring: take no notice of them, but go into the castle and pass on and on till you come to a room, where the gold-en bird sits in a wooden cage; close by it stands a beautiful golden cage; but do not try to take the bird out of the shab-by cage and put it into the handsome one, otherwise you will repent it.'
-- So they went on till they came to a great lake; and at the side of the lake there lay twelve little boats with twelve handsome princes in them, who seemed to be waiting there for the princesses.
-- But when the princess awoke on the following morning she was astonished to see, instead of the frog, a handsome prince, gazing on her with the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen, and standing at the head of her bed.
-- Late at night they arrived at an inn; and as it was bad 80 Grimms' Fairy Talestravelling in the dark, and the duck seemed much tired, and waddled about a good deal from one side to the other, they made up their minds to fix their quarters there: but the landlord at first was unwilling, and said his house was full, thinking they might not be very respectable company: how-ever, they spoke civilly to him, and gave him the egg which Partlet had laid by the way, and said they would give him the duck, who was in the habit of laying one every day: so at last he let them come in, and they bespoke a handsome sup-per, and spent the evening very jollily.
-- HOW CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET WENT TO VIST MR KORBES nother day, Chanticleer and Partlet wished to ride out Atogether; so Chanticleer built a handsome carriage with four red wheels, and harnessed six mice to it; and then he and Partlet got into the carriage, and away they drove.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Before I went to sleep, I gave him to understand that I had some valuable furniture in my box, too good to be lost: a fine hammock, a handsome field-bed, two chairs, a table, and a cabinet; that my closet was hung on all sides, or rather quilted, with silk and cotton; that if he would let one of the crew bring my closet into his cabin, I would open it there before him, and show him my goods.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There were two or three handsome young women among them, with their two or three husbands, and their two or three mothers, and their eight or nine little children, who did the fairy business when required.
-- It was in one of the many small streets for which the favourite undertaker (who turned a handsome sum out of the one poor ghastly pomp of the neighbourhood) kept a black ladder, in order that those who had done their daily groping up and down the narrow stairs might slide out of this working world by the windows.
-- He coached himself up with a blue-book or two; and his brother put it about among the hard Fact fellows, and said, 'If you want to bring in, for any place, a handsome dog who can make you a devilish good speech, look after my brother Jem, for he's your man.'
-- Mr. Gradgrind overwhelmed him with thanks, of course; and hinted as delicately as he could, at a handsome remuneration in money.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When I say a nice house, I mean a handsome house--old, tottering, and not exactly comfortable to English notions: a house a little off the perpendicular and inclined to fall into the neighboring canal; exactly the house for a wandering artist to depict; all the more that you could scarcely see it for ivy and a magnificent old tree which grew over the door.
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