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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Dear grandfather,' cried the girl with an energy which shone in her flushed face, trembling voice, and impassioned gesture, 'I am not a child in that I think, but even if I am, oh hear me pray that we may beg, or work in open roads or fields, to earn a scanty living, rather than live as we do now.'
-- 'Yes, yes, rather than live as we do now,' the child repeated, more earnestly than before.
-- 'Has the sly old fox made his fortune then, and gone to live in a tranquil cot in a pleasant spot with a distant view of the changing sea?'
-- The freshness of the day, the singing of the birds, the beauty of the waving grass, the deep green leaves, the wild flowers, and the thousand exquisite scents and sounds that floated in the air deep joys to most of us, but most of all to those whose life is in a crowd or who live solitarily in great cities as in the bucket of a human well sunk into their breasts and made them very glad.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To live according to the faith that was in him was burdensome; every question would have to be decided almost always against his animal ego, which was seeking light pleasures; but reposing his faith in others, there remained nothing to decide, everything having been decided, and decided always against the spiritual and in favor of the animal ego.
-- But now, this fortuitous meeting brought everything to his mind, and compelled the acknowledgment of his heartlessness, cruelty and baseness which made it possible for him to live undisturbed by the sin which lay on his conscience.
-- People live also in Siberia.
-- But Agrippina Petrovna argued that no one would rent the house in the summer, and that as it was necessary to live somewhere and keep the furniture and things, he might as well remain where he was.
-- She had now lost that forgetfulness in which she had lived, and to live with a clear recollection of the past was painful.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the first place, there was the bleached look common in most animals that live largely in the dark the white fish of the Kentucky caves, for instance.
-- I mean that it had gone deeper and deeper into larger and ever larger underground factories, spending a still-increasing amount of its time therein, till, in the end !Even now, does not an East-end worker live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface of the earth?
-- Man had been content to live in ease and delight upon the labours of his fellow-man, had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse, and in the fullness of time Necessity had come home to him.
-- If that is so, it remains for us to live as though it were not so.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'How would you like to live in Looking-glass House, Kitty?
-- The Garden of Live Flowers'I should see the garden far better,' said Alice to herself, 'if I could get to the top of that hill: and here's a path that leads straight to it at least, no, it doesn't do that ' (after going a few yards along the path, and turning several sharp corners), 'but I suppose it will at last.
-- 'What does it live on?'
-- 'And what does it live on?'
-- 'And what does it live on?'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Imagine the abominable age we live in!
-- "Now, that bird," he would say, "is, maybe, two hundred years old, Hawkins they live forever mostly; and if anybody's seen more wickedness, it must be the devil himself.
-- Now, here's what I say: you'll berth forward, and you'll live hard, and you'll speak soft, and you'll keep sober till I give the word; and you may lay to that, my son."
-- The planks, which had not been swabbed since the mutiny, bore the print of many feet, and an empty bottle, broken by the neck, tumbled to and fro like a live thing in the scuppers.
-- You found out the plot; you found Ben Gunn the best deed that ever you did, or will do, though you live to ninety.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Ah, brave Ned!I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory.
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