practise是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 练习, 实习, 实践, 实行, 使…练习, 训练,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:
-- I wish you to buy a pistol and practise every day, and you must learn to hit a mark for CERTAIN; will you?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It may, at first sight, be matter of surprise to the thoughtless few that Mr Brass, being a professional gentleman, should not have legally indicted some party or parties, active in the promotion of the nuisance, but they will be good enough to remember, that as Doctors seldom take their own prescriptions, and Divines do not always practise what they preach, so lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving, than for its always shaving the right person.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- How it would be a weakness in the government to break down in this attempt to practise for popularity on the lowest national antipathies and fears, and therefore Mr. Attorney-General had made the most of it; how, nevertheless, it rested upon nothing, save that vile and infamous character of evidence too often disfiguring such cases, and of which the State Trials of this country were full.
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:
-- He passed the groups of dead with a steadiness of purpose, and an eye so calm, that nothing but long and inveterate practise could enable him to maintain.
-- I say, young gentleman, may Providence bless your undertaking, which is altogether for good; and, remember, that to outwit the knaves it is lawful to practise things that may not be naturally the gift of a white-skin.'
-- Satisfied with her examination, she left him, with a slight expression of pleasure, and proceeded to practise the same trying ex-periment on her delinquent countryman.
-- Practise all your cunning, for it is a lawful undertaking.'
-- Then heaving a heavy sigh, probably among the last he ever drew in pining for a condition he had so long abandoned, he added: 'it is what I would wish to practise myself, as one without a cross of blood, though it is not always easy to deal with an Indian as you would with a fellow Christian.
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:
-- 'Assume that you are my first patient well we fellows just 318 Crime and Punishmentbeginning to practise love our first patients as if they were our children, and some almost fall in love with them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Among this correspondence, there dropped in, every now andthen, an obliging proposal from one of the numerous outsidersalways lurking about the Commons, to practise under cover of myname (if I would take the necessary steps remaining to make aproctor of myself), and pay me a percentage on the profits.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her father's comfort was amply secured, Mrs. Bates as well as Mrs. Goddard being able to come; and her last pleas-ing duty, before she left the house, was to pay her respects to them as they sat together after dinner; and while her fa-ther was fondly noticing the beauty of her dress, to make the two ladies all the amends in her power, by helping them to large slices of cake and full glasses of wine, for whatev-er unwilling self-denial his care of their constitution might have obliged them to practise during the meal. She had provided a plentiful dinner for them; she wished she could know that they had been allowed to eat it.
-- The pain of being obliged to practise concealment towards him, was very little inferior to the pain of having made Har-riet unhappy.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "You shall have a piano in a year or two farmers' wives are getting to have pianos now and I'll practise up the flute right well to play with you in the evenings."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the place where she heard Heathcliff termed a 'vulgar young ruffian,' and 'worse than a brute,' she took care not to act like him; but at home she had small inclination to practise politeness that would only be laughed at, and restrain an unruly nature when it would bring her neither credit nor praise.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Miss Havisham's intentions towards me, all a mere dream; Estella not designed for me; I only suffered in Satis House as a convenience, a sting for the greedy relations, a model with a mechanical heart to practise on when no other practice was at hand; those were the first smarts I had.
-- "It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He observed, 'that among the diversions of our nobility and gentry, I had mentioned gaming: he desired to know at what age this entertainment was usually taken up, and when it was laid down; how much of their time it employed; whether it ever went so high as to affect their fortunes; whether mean, vicious people, by their dexterity in that art, might not arrive at great riches, and sometimes keep our very nobles in dependence, as well as habituate them to vile companions, wholly take them from the improvement of their minds, and force them, by the losses they received, to learn and practise that infamous dexterity upon others?'
-- Therefore the room where company meet who practise this art, is full of all things, ready at hand, requisite to furnish matter for this kind of artificial converse.
-- I could frequently distinguish the word Yahoo, which was repeated by each of them several times: and although it was impossible for me to conjecture what it meant, yet while the two horses were busy in conversation, I endeav-oured to practise this word upon my tongue; and as soon as they were silent, I boldly pronounced Yahoo in a loud voice, imitating at the same time, as near as I could, the neigh- 285ing of a horse; at which they were both visibly surprised; and the gray repeated the same word twice, as if he meant to teach me the right accent; wherein I spoke after him as well as I could, and found myself perceivably to improve every time, though very far from any degree of perfection.
-- But a wise prince would rather choose to employ those who practise the last of these methods; be-cause such zealots prove always the most obsequious and subservient to the will and passions of their master.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Thus, fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself, when apparent to the eyes; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about: and what was worse than all this, I had not that relief in this trouble that from the resignation I used to practise I hoped to have.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- From you, from my home, I shall never again have the smallest incitement to move; and if I do mix in other society, it will be only to shew that my spirit is humbled, my heart amended, and that I can practise the civilities, the lesser duties of life, with gentleness and forbearance.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He paid, if anything, more attention to his old friend than usual, and yet in no way held him up to that subtle ridicule which a lover in favour may so secretly practise before the mistress of his heart.
-- She meant to go home and practise her evolutions as prescribed.
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