kindness是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 仁慈, 亲切; 好意; 友好行为,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:
-- The young man took the elder's hand, and looked at him with something like kindness in his eyes.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Before I come on board your vessel,' said he, 'will you have the kindness to inform me whither you are bound?'
-- 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.
-- My parents were possessed by the very spir-it of kindness and indulgence.
-- Yet he might not have been so perfectly humane, so thoughtful in his generosity, so full of kindness and tender-ness amidst his passion for adventurous exploit, had she not unfolded to him the real loveliness of beneficence and made the doing good the end and aim of his soaring ambition.
-- M. Waldman inflicted torture when he praised, with kindness and warmth, the astonishing progress I had made in the sciences.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The other was his wife, and hecould only attribute her to the mysterious kindness of God.
-- The South should show by arms that she cannot be insulted and that she is not leaving theUnion by the Union's kindness but by her own strength!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I further mentioned that as I had been brought up a blacksmith in a country place, and knew very little of the ways of politeness, I would take it as a great kindness in him if he would give me a hint whenever he saw me at a loss or going wrong.
-- Herbert had told me on former occasions, and now reminded me, that he first knew Miss Clara Barley when she was completing her education at an establishment at Hammersmith, and that on her being recalled home to nurse her father, he and she had confided their affection to the motherly Mrs. Whimple, by whom it had been fostered and regulated with equal kindness and discretion, ever since.
-- The delicacy with which Joe dismissed this theme, and the sweet tact and kindness with which Biddy--who with her woman's wit had found me out so soon--had prepared him for it, made a deep impression on my mind.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For a while he watched it sinking in the deep clear wa-ter; then sprang up and danced for joy, and again fell upon his knees and thanked Heaven, with tears in his eyes, for its kindness in taking away his only plague, the ugly heavy stone.
-- Then the queen took pity on the little fish, and threw it back again into the river; and before it swam away it lifted its head out of the water and said, 'I know what your wish is, and it shall be fulfilled, in return for your kindness to me you will soon have a daughter.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the poor gardener, who knew me well, and had a great kindness for me, was in a terrible fright: he gently took me up in both his hands, and asked me how I did?
-- I owned 'that the Houyhnhnms among us, whom we called horses, were the most generous and comely animals we had; that they excelled in strength and swiftness; and when they be-longed to persons of quality, were employed in travelling, racing, or drawing chariots; they were treated with much kindness and care, till they fell into diseases, or became foundered in the feet; but then they were sold, and used to all kind of drudgery till they died; after which their skins were stripped, and sold for what they were worth, and their bodies left to be devoured by dogs and birds of prey.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I wish I could have made a better acknowledgment, sir, of your kindness to a poor forlorn girl who had no claim upon you, and of your protection of her.'
-- They looked at Stephen's worn face, rendered more pathetic by the homely emotions it evinced; and, in the kindness of their nature, they were more sorry than indignant.
-- Not drawin nigh to fok, wi' kindness and patience an' cheery ways, that so draws nigh to one another in their monny troubles, and so cherishes one another in their distresses wi' what they need themseln like, I humbly believe, as no people the genelman ha seen in aw his travels can beat will never do 't till th' Sun turns t' ice.
-- Haply 'tis a kindness to monny that I go; haply 'tis a kindness to myseln; anyways it mun be done.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the stoppage of the bell, and the quiet in the prison, were a warning to depart; and with a few hurried words of kindness he left her gliding back to her father.
-- 'I should have preferred the request, if your kindness had not anticipated me.'
-- Highly gratified by the kindness of his reception, Young John descended the staircase.
-- The first lady who went through had a roll of music, half in her muff and half out of it, and was in such a tumbled condition altogether, that it seemed as if it would be an act of kindness to iron her.
-- 'I think, Flora,' he said, 'that the employment you can give Little Dorrit, and the kindness you can show her ''Yes and I will,' said Flora, quickly.
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