peep是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 偷看, 窥视,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《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have admired you at a distance; and if I have come to town sometimes, with long times between, to take a proud peep at you, I have done it unbeknown, my love, and gone away again.'
-- 'I want you jutht to take a peep at the Ring, mith, through here.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I kept as far away from them as possible, not even venturing to take the faintest peep downwards.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yet one could see a grudge against the Chatterleys peep out in her; the grudge against the masters.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My little one, you see, going round with me to have a peep at her father's birds.
-- When he grew tall enough to peep through the keyhole of the great lock of the main door, he had divers times set down his father's dinner, or supper, to get on as it might on the outer side thereof, while he stood taking cold in one eye by dint of peeping at her through that airy perspective.
-- One of his eyes (perhaps the eye that used to peep through the keyhole) was also weak, and looked larger than the other, as if it couldn't collect itself.
-- 'But whenever he gets to the top of the steps at t'other end of the Yard,' said Mrs Plornish, 'he'll peep out in the curiousest way!So that some of us thinks he's peeping out towards where his own country is, and some of us thinks he's looking for somebody he don't want to see, and some of us don't know what to think.'
-- Affery had so vivid a fear of his going stealthily up-stairs the moment her back was turned, that after hurrying out of sight, she returned to the gateway to peep at him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Jo saw a big red headed youth approaching her corner, and fearing he meant to engage her, she slipped into a curtained recess, intending to peep and enjoy herself in peace.
-- And Meg took a refreshing peep at her glove box.
-- Meg was too much absorbed in her private and particular John to care for any other lords of creation, and Beth too shy to do more than peep at them and wonder how Amy dared to order them about so, but Jo felt quite in her own element, and found it very difficult to refrain from imi-tating the gentlemanly attitudes, phrases, and feats, which seemed more natural to her than the decorums prescribed for young ladies.
-- 'You won't show the soft side of your char-acter, and if a fellow gets a peep at it by accident and can't help showing that he likes it, you treat him as Mrs. Gum-midge did her sweetheart, throw cold water over him, and get so thorny no one dares touch or look at you.'
-- Crosspatch, draw the latch, Sit by the fire and spin, squalled Polly, bending down from his perch on the back of her chair to peep into Jo's face, with such a comical air of impertinent inquiry that it was impossible to help laugh-ing.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Well then, just step forward there, and take a peep over the weather-bow, and then back to me and tell me what ye see there."
-- When the last echo of his sultan's step has died away, and Starbuck, the first Emir, has every reason to suppose that he is seated, then Starbuck rouses from his quietude, takes a few turns along the planks, and, after a grave peep into the binnacle, says, with some touch of pleasantness, "Dinner, Mr. Stubb," and descends the scuttle.
-- There's the fruits of promotion now; there's the vanity of glory: there's the insanity of life!Besides, if it were so that any mere sailor of the Pequod had a grudge against Flask in Flask's official capacity, all that sailor had to do, in order to obtain ample vengeance, was to go aft at dinner-time, and get a peep at Flask through the cabin sky-light, sitting silly and dumfoundered before awful Ahab.
-- Commonly, after seeing the harpooneers furnished with all things they demanded, he would escape from their clutches into his little pantry adjoining, and fearfully peep out at them through the blinds of its door, till all was over.
-- Bear in mind, too, that under these untoward circumstances he has to cut many feet deep in the flesh; and in that subterraneous manner, without so much as getting one single peep into the ever-contracting gash thus made, he must skilfully steer clear of all adjacent, interdicted parts, and exactly divide the spine at a critical point hard by its insertion into the skull.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Bumble tapped with his cane on the counter several times; but, attracting no attention, and beholding a light shining through the glass-window of the little parlour at the back of the shop, he made bold to peep in and see what was going forward; and when he saw what was going forward, he was not a little surprised.
-- He passed a great many public-houses; but, at length paused before one in a by-way, whose parlour, as he gathered from a hasty peep over the blinds, was deserted, save by one solitary customer.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The journey would moreover give her a peep at Jane; and, in short, as the time drew near, she would have been very sorry for any delay.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now I began to take courage, and to peep abroad again, for I had not stirred out of my castle for three days and nights, so that I began to starve for provisions; for I had little or nothing within doors but some barley-cakes and water; then I knew that my goats wanted to be milked too, which usually was my evening diversion: and the poor crea-tures were in great pain and inconvenience for want of it; and, indeed, it almost spoiled some of them, and almost dried up their milk.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Where the log forked I could peep through.
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