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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- de Restaud's expression was reserved and chilly, her eyes had grown indifferent, and sedulously avoided meeting those of the unlucky student of law.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I never saw a more interesting creature: his eyes have generally an expression of wildness, and even madness, but there are moments when, if anyone performs an act of kindness towards him or does him the most trifling service, his whole counte-16 Frankensteinnance is lighted up, as it were, with a beam of benevolence and sweetness that I never saw equalled.
-- I believe it to be an intuitive dis-cernment, a quick but never-failing power of judgment, a penetration into the causes of things, unequalled for clear-ness and precision; add to this a facility of expression and a 21voice whose varied intonations are soul-subduing music.
-- No word, no expression could body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only.
-- There is an expression of despair, and sometimes of revenge, in your countenance that makes me tremble.
-- He would talk in a cheerful accent, with an expression of goodness that bestowed pleasure even upon me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It wouldsuit Carreen's delicate profile and wishy-washy expression perfectly, but Scarlett felt that it made her look like aschoolgirl.
-- Catching sight of Mammy's burden, Scarlett's expression changed from one of minor irritation to obstinatebelligerency.
-- He had beendrinking and wore the arrogant looking-for-a-fight expression that she knew from experience meant trouble.
-- He only looked up at Melanie andtalked on, and Melanie looked down at him with an expression that radiated the fact that she belonged to him.
-- for Charles' expression showed that he wasbaring his heart's secrets to her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Having at that time to find out for myself what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon me, I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand.
-- And now, old chap," said Joe, conveying to me a sensation, first of burning and then of freezing, for I felt as if that familiar expression were applied to Miss Havisham,--"and now, old chap, may we do our duty!May you and me do our duty, both on us, by one and another, and by them which your liberal present--have-conweyed--to be--for the satisfaction of mind-of--them as never--" here Joe showed that he felt he had fallen into frightful difficulties, until he triumphantly rescued himself with the words, "and from myself far be it!"
-- There was an expression of contempt on his face, and he bit the side of a great forefinger as he watched the group of faces.
-- Chapter XXICasting my eyes on Mr. Wemmick as we went along, to see what he was like in the light of day, I found him to be a dry man, rather short in stature, with a square wooden face, whose expression seemed to have been imperfectly chipped out with a dull-edged chisel.
-- Her countenance immediately assumed a knitted and intent expression as if she had been reading for a week, but before she could have read half a dozen lines, she fixed her eyes upon me, and said, "I hope your mamma is quite well?"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But because the reader may be curious to have some idea of the style and manner of expression peculiar to that people, as well as to know the article upon which I re-covered my liberty, I have made a translation of the whole instrument, word for word, as near as I was able, which I here offer to the public.
-- To this the king returned some answer, which, although I could not understand, yet I replied as I had been directed: Fluft drin yalerick dwuldom prastrad mirpush, which prop-erly signifies, 'My tongue is in the mouth of my friend;' and by this expression was meant, that I desired leave to bring my interpreter; whereupon the young man already men-tioned was accordingly introduced, by whose intervention I answered as many questions as his majesty could put in above an hour.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A rather stooping man, with a knitted brow, a pondering expression of face, and a hard-looking head sufficiently capacious, on which his iron-grey hair lay long and thin, Old Stephen might have passed for a particularly intelligent man in his condition.
-- The expression was not lost upon her; she laid her hand lightly on his arm a moment as if to thank him for it.
-- In another moment, he stood as he had stood all the time his usual stoop upon him; his pondering face addressed to Mr. Bounderby, with a curious expression on it, half shrewd, half perplexed, as if his mind were set upon unravelling something very difficult; his hat held tight in his left hand, which rested on his hip; his right arm, with a rugged propriety and force of action, very earnestly emphasizing what he said: not least so when it always paused, a little bent, but not withdrawn, as he paused.
-- Stephen infused a yet deeper gravity into the mixed expression of his attentive face.
-- Therefore, perhaps the expression itself I merely suggest this to you, my dear may be a little misplaced.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He looked at me from under his spectacles, and started at the odd expression of my face.
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