expression是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 表达; 表情; 声调; 腔调; 榨出; 措词; 式; 符号,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:
-- There was a remarkable expression in it now; a kind of serious de-light of which he felt ashamed, and which he struggled to repress.
-- What an honest expression it has in its face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A face habitually suppressed and quieted, was still lighted up under the quaint wig by a pair of moist bright eyes that it must have cost their owner, in years gone by, some pains to drill to the composed and reserved expression of Tellson's Bank.
-- As his eyes rested on a short, slight, pretty fig-ure, a quantity of golden hair, a pair of blue eyes that met his 27own with an inquiring look, and a forehead with a singular capacity (remembering how young and smooth it was), of rifting and knitting itself into an expression that was not quite one of perplexity, or wonder, or alarm, or merely of a bright fixed attention, though it included all the four ex-pressions-as his eyes rested on these things, a sudden vivid likeness passed before him, of a child whom he had held in his arms on the passage across that very Channel, one cold time, when the hail drifted heavily and the sea ran high.
-- Between the eyebrows and just over the little feminine nose, the line of which was as delicate and fine as it was pos-sible to be, the expression deepened itself as she took her seat thoughtfully in the chair by which she had hitherto re-mained standing.
-- Perfectly still and silent, and not even fallen back in her chair, she sat under his hand, utterly insensible; with her eyes open and fixed upon him, and with that last expression looking as if it were carved or branded into her forehead.
-- And so exactly was the expression repeated on the fair young face of her who had crept along the wall to a point where she could see him, and where she now stood looking at him, with hands which at first had been only raised in fright-ened compassion, if not even to keep him off and shut out the sight of him, but which were now extending towards him, trembling with eagerness to lay the spectral face upon her warm young breast, and love it back to life and hope so exactly was the expression repeated (though in stronger characters) on her fair young face, that it looked as though it had passed like a moving light, from him to her.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The healthiest of them resembled, to use an expression of Marryat's, 'Hunger's eldest son when he had come of age"; the others were either blind, had with-ered legs and crept about on their hands, or withered arms and fingerless hands.
-- She drew another match against the wall: it was again light, and in the lustre there stood the old grandmother, so bright and radiant, so mild, and with such an expression of love.
-- 'To see the Kjoge hens,' is an expression similar to 'showing a child London,' which is said to be done by taking his head in both bands, and so lifting him off the ground.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She, his Dolly, forever fussing and worrying over household details, and limited in her ideas, as he considered, was sitting perfectly still with the letter in her hand, looking at him with an expression of horror, despair, and indignation.
-- His face all at once took an expression of anger from the effort he was making to surmount his shyness.
-- But what always struck him in her as something unlooked for, was the expression of her eyes, soft, serene, and truthful, and above all, her smile, which always transported Levin to an enchanted world, where he felt himself softened and tender, as he remembered himself in some days of his early childhood.
-- And indeed, no sooner had he uttered these words, when all at once, like the sun going behind a cloud, her face lost all its friendliness, and Levin detected the familiar change in her expression that denoted the working of thought; a crease showed on her smooth brow.
-- Levin was wondering what that change in Kitty's expression had meant, and alternately assuring himself that there was hope, and falling into despair, seeing clearly that his hopes were insane, and yet all the while he felt himself quite another man, utterly unlike what he had been before her smile and those words, "Good-bye till this evening."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Phileas Fogg was, indeed, exactitude personified, and this was betrayed even in the expression of his very hands and feet; for in men, as well as in animals, the limbs themselves are expressive of the passions.
-- This expression rather disturbed Fix, without his knowing why.
-- Passepartout was enraged beyond expression by the unpropitious weather.
-- John Bunsby, himself, a man of forty-five or thereabouts, vigorous, sunburnt, with a sprightly expression of the eye, and energetic and self-reliant countenance, would have inspired confidence in the most timid.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When he lifted his head to listen, his right eyebrow, slightly higher than the left, rose and quivered in his characteristic expression of energy, of independence, and a hint that he could fight, a look of impertinent inquiry which had been known to annoy his teachers and the Sunday School superintendent.
-- He began to consider Leora's clothes not merely as convenient coverings, but as a possible expression of charm, and irritably he realized how careless she was.
-- Literary expression was not easy to Martin.
-- When Leora received the idea that he was going off to a death- haunted isle, to a place of strange ways and trees and faces (a place, probably, where they spoke funny languages and didn't have movies or tooth-paste), she took the notion secretively away with her, to look at it and examine it, precisely as she often stole little foods from the table and hid them and meditatively ate them at odd hours of the night, with the pleased expression of a bad child.
-- Miss Gwilliam looked after him with an expression which said that the least people could do was to learn some manners.
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