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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "And we live in two parishes."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At the beginning of Eugene de Rastignac's second twelvemonth, this figure suddenly started out into bold relief against the background of human forms and faces among which the law student was yet to live for another two years to come.
-- de l'Ambermesnil, the Countess would no longer live under the same roof.
-- Sometimes, according to Vautrin, who came about this time to live in the Maison Vauquer, Father Goriot was a man who went on 'Change and _dabbled_ (to use the sufficiently expressive language of the Stock Exchange) in stocks and shares after he had ruined himself by heavy speculation.
-- Early one morning, some few months after the departure of the unlucky Countess who had managed to live for six months at the widow's expense, Mme.
-- "You have grown so economical, you will find out how to live on the smell of cooking at last."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This man, whose name was Beaufort, was of a proud and unbending disposition and could not bear to live in poverty and oblivion in the same country where he had formerly been distinguished for his rank and magnificence.
-- This girl had always been the favourite of her father, but through a strange perversity, her mother could not en-dure her, and after the death of M. Moritz, treated her very ill. My aunt observed this, and when Justine was twelve years of age, prevailed on her mother to allow her to live at our house.
-- Alas, Victor!I now say, Thank God she did not live to wit-ness the cruel, miserable death of her youngest darling!
-- 'I wish,' cried she, 'that I were to die with you; I cannot live in this world of misery.'
-- In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Dilcey was head woman andmidwife at Twelve Oaks, and, since the marriage six months ago, Pork had deviled his master night and day to buyDilcey, so the two could live on the same plantation.
-- And don't be forgetting that you are half Irish, Miss!Andto anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother.
-- With his own small stake, what he could borrow from his unenthusiastic brothers and a neat sum from mortgagingthe land, Gerald bought his first field hands and came to Tara to live in bachelor solitude in the four-room overseer'shouse, till such a time as the white walls of Tara should rise.
-- "I'll live there all my life and I'll see fifty springs like this and maybe more, and I'll tell my children and mygrandchildren how beautiful this spring was, lovelier than any they'll ever see."
-- "If I can just live through this barbecue till this afternoon," she thought, "all the girls will go upstairs to take napsto be fresh for tonight and I'll stay downstairs and get to talk to Ashley.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Who d'ye live with,--supposin' you're kindly let to live, which I han't made up my mind about?"
-- May you live a thousand years, and never be a worse judge of the right sort than you are at the present moment of your life!"
-- So don't tell no more on 'em, Pip, and live well and die happy."
-- When I was very small and timid, he gave me to understand that the Devil lived in a black corner of the forge, and that he knew the fiend very well: also that it was necessary to make up the fire, once in seven years, with a live boy, and that I might consider myself fuel.
-- Both Mr. and Mrs. Pocket had such a noticeable air of being in somebody else's hands, that I wondered who really was in possession of the house and let them live there, until I found this unknown power to be the servants.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As he came to the next village, he saw a scissor-grinder with his wheel, working and singing, 'O'er hill and o'er dale So happy I roam, Work light and live well, All the world is my home; Then who so blythe, so merry as I?'
-- Because I am beginning to grow old, and had rather lie at my ease by the fire than run about the house after the mice, my mistress laid hold of me, and was going to drown me; and though I have been lucky enough to get away from her, I do not know what I am to live upon.'
-- Finding everything still, he marched into the kitchen, and groped about till he found a match in order to light a candle; and then, espying the glittering fi-ery eyes of the cat, he mistook them for live coals, and held the match to them to light it.
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