live是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 活, 生活 a. 有生命的, 实况的,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Madeline's widowed mother had come to live with her, and they had taken a top-floor flat in one of the tiny apartment-houses which were beginning to replace the expansive old wooden houses of Mohalis.
-- I never thought I'd have to live up to a man with a dress-suit and a come- to-Heaven collar.
-- He was still shaky next morning, and he had already taken a drink to make it possible to live through the morning when he received the note from Dean Silva bidding him report to the office at once.
-- Live and let live and mind your own business is my motto, and that's what I said to Alec Ingleblad the other day when I was in there having a shave and he was trying to get funny about our holding so many mortgages, but I'll be blamed if I'm going to allow a fellow that I don't know anything about to come snooping around My Sister till I find out something about his prospects!"
-- But I've decided I don't care to live without my wife.
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:
-- Not her shoes that would be more or less in the order of things, but her stock-ings, her stockings I have sold for drink!Her mohair shawl I sold for drink, a present to her long ago, her own property, not mine; and we live in a cold room and she caught cold this winter and has begun coughing and spitting blood too.
-- We have now part of a room at Amalia Fyodorovna Lippevechsel's; and what we live upon and what we pay our rent with, I could not say.
-- And Katerina Ivanovna walking up and down and wringing her hands, her cheeks flushed red, as they always are in that dis-ease: 'Here you live with us,' says she, 'you eat and drink and are kept warm and you do nothing to help.'
-- At first he was for making up to Sonia himself and then all of a sudden he stood on his dignity: 'how,' said he, 'can a highly educated man like me live in the same rooms 30 Crime and Punishmentwith a girl like that?'
-- They all live in one room, but Sonia has her own, partitioned off芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- How they affected my aunt, nobody knew; for immediatelyupon the separation she took her maiden name again, bought acottage in a hamlet on the sea-coast a long way off, establishedherself there as a single woman with one servant, and wasunderstood to live secluded, ever afterwards, in an inflexibleretirement.
-- 'I say!Peggotty!She can't live by herself, you know.'
-- Here was acoincidence!I immediately went into an explanation how I hadnever seen my own father; and how my mother and I had alwayslived by ourselves in the happiest state imaginable, and lived sothen, and always meant to live so; and how my father's grave wasin the churchyard near our house, and shaded by a tree, beneaththe boughs of which I had walked and heard the birds sing many apleasant morning.
-- 'Pray let us befriends,' said my mother, 'I couldn't live under coldness orunkindness.
-- But I live on broken wittles- and I sleep on the coals'- here thewaiter burst into tears.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Weston is such a good-humoured, pleasant, excellent man, that he thoroughly deserves a good wife; and you would not have had Miss Taylor live with us for ever, and bear all my odd humours, when she might have a house of her own?'
-- He had, by that time, realised an easy competence enough to secure the purchase of a little estate adjoining Highbury, which he had always longed for enough to marry a wom-an as portionless even as Miss Taylor, and to live according to the wishes of his own friendly and social disposition.
-- But they live very comfortably.
-- You are so much used to live alone, that you do not know the value of a companion; and, perhaps no man can be a good judge of the comfort a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex, after being used to it all her life.
-- Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and gen-erally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "What sort of a place is this to live at, and what sort of a mis'ess is she to work under?"
-- "I knew them a little," said Jacob Smallbury; "but they were townsfolk, and didn't live here.
-- "We all know that, and ye must have a wonderful talented constitution to be able to live so long, mustn't he, neighbours?"
-- "I am never up to my elbows, Miss, in making a pudding but one of two things do happen either my nose must needs begin tickling, and I can't live without scratching it, or somebody knocks at the door.
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