base是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 基础, 底部; 根据地v. (on) 把…基于,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《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No, he scorned the base insinuation.
-- The father had long ago taken up his bundle and bidden himself away with it, when the women who had tended the bundle while it lay 157on the base of the fountain, sat there watching the running of the water and the rolling of the Fancy Ball when the one woman who had stood conspicuous, knitting, still knitted on with the steadfastness of Fate.
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:
-- I ran up, and ran down, peeped into the highest windows, into the saloons, and on the roofs, I peeped in where no one could peep, and I saw what no one else saw, what no one else should see!This is, in fact, a base world!I would not be a man if it were not now once accepted and regarded as something to be so!I saw the most unimaginable things with the women, with the men, with parents, and with the sweet, matchless children; I saw,' said the shadow, 'what no human being must know, but what they would all so will-ingly know what is bad in their neighbor.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a struggle in his heart between the desire to forget his unhappy brother for the time, and the consciousness that it would be base to do so.
-- "Isn't he right that everything in the world is base and loathsome?
-- she said; "of course, he's always right; he's a Christian, he's generous!Yes, vile, base creature!And no one understands it except me, and no one ever will; and I can't explain it.
-- Besides, the sister-in-law with her low-necked bodice aroused in him a feeling akin to shame and remorse for some utterly base action.
-- Angry with himself for so base a feeling, Levin ran into the hall; as soon as he had seen his brother close, this feeling of selfish disappointment vanished instantly and was replaced by pity.
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 IS ONLY TOO GLAD TO GET OFF WITH THE LOSS OF HIS SHOESEverybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
-- "Because the railway stopped at the base of these mountains, which the passengers were obliged to cross in palanquins or on ponies to Kandallah, on the other side."
-- It happened that the performer who had hitherto formed the base of the Car had quitted the troupe, and as, to fill this part, only strength and adroitness were necessary, Passepartout had been chosen to take his place.
-- He went upon the stage, and took his place beside the rest who were to compose the base of the Car of Juggernaut.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Even when, as advocate for Madeline, he pleaded that Leora was a trivial young woman who probably chewed gum in private and certainly was careless about her nails in public, her commonness was dear to the commonness that was in himself, valid as ambition or reverence, an earthy base to her gaiety as it was to his nervous scientific curiosity.
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:
-- 'It was base of me to say that芒聙娄.
-- 'Proud creature!She won't admit she wants to do it out of charity!Too haughty!Oh, base characters!They even love as though they hate芒聙娄.
-- 'I was tempted by his money, but on my honour, brother, I had no idea he was such a base man.
-- 'You are an idiot yourself, pettifogging lawyer, base man!Sonia, Sonia take his money!Sonia a thief!Why, she'd give away her last penny!'
-- But let me add, you can judge for yourself, I think, how far I am a base sort of man and how far I am honest.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But when Jane Murdstone is kind enoughto come to my assistance in this endeavour, and to assume, for mysake, a condition something like a housekeeper's, and when shemeets with a base return-' 'Oh, pray, pray, Edward,' cried mymother, 'don't accuse me of being ungrateful.
-- 'To insult one who is not fortunate in life, sir, and who never gaveyou the least offence, and the many reasons for not insulting whomyou are old enough and wise enough to understand,' said Mr.Mell, with his lip trembling more and more, 'you commit a meanand base action.
-- I knew thatit was base in me not to think more of my aunt, and less of myself;but, so far, selfishness was inseparable from Dora, and I could notput Dora on one side for any mortal creature.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They vindicated 360 Emmahim against the base aspersion.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He wore a low-crowned felt hat, spread out at the base by tight jamming upon the head for security in high winds, and a coat like Dr. Johnson's; his lower extremities being encased in ordinary leather leggings and boots emphatically large, affording to each foot a roomy apartment so constructed that any wearer might stand in a river all day long and know nothing of damp their maker being a conscientious man who endeavoured to compensate for any weakness in his cut by unstinted dimension and solidity.
-- He would base his appeal on what he considered her unfair treatment of Farmer Boldwood, now absent from home.
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