mirror是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 镜子; 反映, 反射v. 反映, 反射,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:
-- Which Treats of a Mirror and of the Splinters ow then, let us begin.
-- One day he was in a very good humor, for he had made a mirror with the power of causing all that was good and beautiful when it was re-flected therein, to look poor and mean; but that which was good-for-nothing and looked ugly was shown magnified and increased in ugliness.
-- In this mirror the most beautiful landscapes looked like boiled spinach, and the best per-sons were turned into frights, or appeared to stand on their heads; their faces were so distorted that they were not to be recognised; and if anyone had a mole, you might be sure that it would be magnified and spread over both nose and mouth.
-- Higher and higher still they flew, nearer and nearer to the stars, when suddenly the mirror shook so terribly with grinning, that it flew out of their hands and fell to the earth, where it was dashed in a hundred million and more pieces.
-- This happened because the very smallest bit had the same power which the whole mirror had possessed.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What was pictured so clearly to Kitty in the mirror of Anna's face she saw in him.
-- And what he saw in this mirror did not gratify his self-esteem.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Almost as soonas it shone upon the oyster-shell frame of my mirror I was out ofbed, and out with little Em'ly, picking up stones upon the beach.
-- It was not in the coffee-room that I found Steerforth expecting me,but in a snug private apartment, red-curtained and Turkey-carpeted, where the fire burnt bright, and a fine hot breakfast wasset forth on a table covered with a clean cloth; and a cheerfulminiature of the room, the fire, the breakfast, Steerforth, and all,was shining in the little round mirror over the sideboard.
-- Everything was gone, down to the little mirror with theoyster-shell frame.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Scarlett peered anxiously in the mirror at her sixteen-year-old face as if expecting to see wrinkles and sagging chinmuscles.
-- As she stood before the mirror and twisted herself about to get a side view, she thought that there was absolutelynothing about her figure to cause her shame.
-- In the bedroom where the wraps were laid, she found Cathleen Calvert preening before the mirror and biting herlips to make them look redder.
-- She crossed the room to the mirror and parted her smooth hair approvingly.
-- This ungallant statement sent her flying to the mirror to see if she really did look twenty-eight instead of eighteen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Upon that, he pulled out a napkin, as if it were a magic clew without which he couldn't find the way upstairs, and led us to the black hole of the establishment, fitted up with a diminishing mirror (quite a superfluous article, considering the hole's proportions), an anchovy sauce-cruet, and somebody's pattens.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And the old woman, as soon as Connie had gone, rushed to the bit of mirror in the scullery, and looked at her face.
-- She followed him into the scullery, and combed her hair before the handbreadth of mirror by the back door.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As Meg went rustling after, with her long skirts trailing, her earrings tinkling, her curls waving, and her heart beat-ing, she felt as if her fun had really begun at last, for the mirror had plainly told her that she was 'a little beauty'.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was watching to see where he kept his razor, when lo and behold, he takes the harpoon from the bed corner, slips out the long wooden stock, unsheathes the head, whets it a little on his boot, and striding up to the bit of mirror against the wall, begins a vigorous scraping, or rather harpooning of his cheeks.
-- They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles, even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by two great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East, dotted all round their banks; here and there are frowned upon by batteries, and by the goat-like craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they yield their beaches to wild barbarians, whose red painted faces flash from out their peltry wigwams; for leagues and leagues are flanked by ancient and unentered forests, where the gaunt pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported furs give robes to Tartar Emperors; they mirror the paved capitals of Buffalo and Cleveland, as well as Winnebago villages; they float alike the full-rigged merchant ship, the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer, and the beech canoe; they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.
-- While composing a little treatise on Eternity, I had the curiosity to place a mirror before me; and ere long saw reflected there, a curious involved worming and undulation in the atmosphere over my head.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The mirror convinced her of a few things which she had long believed.
-- There was a large pier-glass mirror between the two windows.
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