perfection是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 尽善尽美, 完美,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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A nice sort of perfection to throw up a prince and a million and a half of roubles in order to be able to boast of the fact afterwards!
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But four parts are alto-gether necessary to the perfection of melody.
-- The ingenuous Alice gazed at his free air and proud carriage, as she would have looked upon some precious relic of the Grecian chisel, to which life had been imparted by the intervention of a miracle; while Heyward, though accustomed to see the perfection of form which abounds among the uncorrupted natives, openly ex-pressed his admiration at such an unblemished specimen of the noblest proportions of man.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Everything within the house and without, seemed to be the perfection of neatness and order.
-- But Kit's mother, again wouldn't anybody have supposed she had come of a good stock and been a lady all her life!There she was, quite ready to receive them, with a display of tea-things that might have warmed the heart of a china-shop; and little Jacob and the baby in such a state of perfection that their clothes looked as good as new, though Heaven knows they were old enough!Didn't she say before they had sat down five minutes that Barbara's mother was exactly the sort of lady she expected, and didn't Barbara's mother say that Kit's mother was the very picture of what she had expected, and didn't Kit's mother compliment Barbara's mother on Barbara, and didn't Barbara's mother compliment Kit's mother on Kit, and wasn't Barbara herself quite fascinated with little Jacob, and did ever a child show off when he was wanted, as that child did, or make such friends as he made!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- During that summer Nekhludoff experienced that exaltation which youth comes to know not by the teaching of others, but when it naturally begins to recognize the beauty and importance of life, and man's serious place in it; when it sees the possibility of infinite perfection of which the world is capable, and devotes itself to that endeavor, not only with the hope, but with a full conviction of reaching that perfection which it imagines possible.
-- Since that time they had both became corrupted--he by the bad life he was leading; she by her marriage to a man whom she loved sensually, but who not only did not love all that which she and Dimitri at one time considered most holy and precious, but did not even understand it, and all those aspirations to moral perfection and to serving others, to which she had once devoted herself, he ascribed to selfishness and a desire to show off before people.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On the forecastle lay the perfection of a breech-loading gun, very thick at the breech, and very narrow in the bore, the model of which had been in the Exhibition of 1867.
-- There, sir!that is the perfection of vessels!And if it is true that the engineer has more confidence in the vessel than the builder, and the builder than the captain himself, you understand the trust I repose in my Nautilus; for I am at once captain, builder, and engineer."
-- "It is to use the Rouquayrol apparatus, invented by two of your own countrymen, which I have brought to perfection for my own use, and which will allow you to risk yourself under these new physiological conditions without any organ whatever suffering.
-- Thanks to the perfection of our apparatus, we were forty-five fathoms below the limit which nature seems to have imposed on man as to his submarine excursions.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One wanted to swoon into the by-gone perfection of it all.
-- It was a certain pure effluence of maleness, like an aroma from his softly, firmly moulded contours, a certain rich perfection of his presence, that touched her with an ecstasy, a thrill of pure intoxication.
-- Each acknowledges the perfection of the polarised sex-circuit.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nothing would have been wanting to the perfection of his character as a fraternal guide, philosopher and friend, if he had only steered his brother clear of ruin, instead of bringing it upon him.
-- Several projectors, likewise, availed themselves of the same opportunity to correspond with Mr Meagles; as, for example, to apprise him that their attention having been called to the advertisement by a friend, they begged to state that if they should ever hear anything of the young person, they would not fail to make it known to him immediately, and that in the meantime if he would oblige them with the funds necessary for bringing to perfection a certain entirely novel description of Pump, the happiest results would ensue to mankind.
-- Mrs General, having long ago formed her own surface to such perfection that it hid whatever was below it (if anything), no observation was to be made in that quarter.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now Aunt March possessed in perfection the art of rousing the spirit of opposition in the gentlest people, and enjoyed doing it.
-- I don't know whether the study of Shakespeare helped her to read character, or the natural instinct of a woman for what was honest, brave, and strong, but while endowing her imaginary heroes with every perfection under the sun, Jo was discovering a live hero, who interested her in spite of many human imperfections.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My next concern was to get me a stone mortar to stamp or beat some corn in; for as to the mill, there was no thought of arriving at that perfection of art with one pair of hands.
-- Besides this, I arrived at an unexpected perfection in my earthenware, and contrived well enough to make them with a wheel, which I found infinitely easier and better; be-cause I made things round and shaped, which before were filthy things indeed to look on.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For Marianne, however in spite of his incivility in surviving her loss he always retained that decided regard which interested him in every thing that befell her, and made her his secret standard of perfection in woman; and many a rising beauty would be slighted by him in after-days as bearing no comparison with Mrs. Brandon.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hurstwood was arraying himself in one of his perfection vests before the glass at the time.
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