evil是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 邪恶的, 罪恶的n. 邪恶, 罪恶,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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was planning some evil design against the Irishman, when a better chance presented itself.
-- His manifestly evil designs called for the utmost vigilance on the part of Glenarvan.
-- Some of the party fell into a troubled sleep, a prey to evil dreams; others could not close an eye.
-- The chief's name was "Kai-Koumou," a name of evil boding in the native language, meaning "He who eats the limbs of his enemy."
-- An evil smile relaxed his lips for a moment; then he controlled himself, and in a voice of ill-concealed anger:"Do you hope to deceive Kai-Koumou with lying words, accursed Pakeka?
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But the young maiden, being discreet and of good repute, would ever avoid him, for she feared his evil name.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My objections to the marriage were not merely those which I last night acknowledged to have the utmost force of passion to put aside, in my own case; the want of connection could not be so great an evil to my friend as to me.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- CHAPTER II - SLAVERY AND ESCAPETHAT evil influence which carried me first away from my father's house - which hurried me into the wild and indi-gested notion of raising my fortune, and that impressed those conceits so forcibly upon me as to make me deaf to all good advice, and to the entreaties and even the commands of my father - I say, the same influence, whatever it was, pre-sented the most unfortunate of all enterprises to my view; and I went on board a vessel bound to the coast of Africa; or, as our sailors vulgarly called it, a voyage to Guinea.
-- But I was hurried on, and obeyed blindly the dictates of my fancy rather than my reason; and, accordingly, the ship being fitted out, and the cargo furnished, and all things done, as by agreement, by my partners in the voyage, I went on board in an evil hour, the 1st September 1659, being the same day eight years that I went from my father and mother at Hull, in order to act the rebel to their authority, and the fool to my own interests.
-- Encouraging myself, therefore, with the belief that this was nothing but the print of one of my own feet, and that I might be truly said to start at my own shadow, I began to go abroad again, and went to my country house to milk my flock: but to see with what fear I went for-ward, how often I looked behind me, how I was ready every now and then to lay down my basket and run for my life, it would have made any one have thought I was haunted with an evil conscience, or that I had been lately most terribly frightened; and so, indeed, I had.
-- 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.
-- But it was otherwise directed; and it may not be amiss for all people who shall meet with my story to make this just observation from it: How frequently, in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Oh, Elinor, how incomprehensible are your feelings!You had rather take evil upon credit than good.
-- But every circumstance that could embitter such an evil seemed uniting to heighten the misery of Marianne in a final separation from Willoughby in an immediate and irreconcilable rupture with him.
-- Beyond you three, is there a creature in the world whom I would not rather suspect of evil than Willoughby, whose heart I know so well?"
-- But it was a matter of great consolation to her, that what brought evil to herself would bring good to her sister; and Elinor, on the other hand, suspecting that it would not be in her power to avoid Edward entirely, comforted herself by thinking, that though their longer stay would therefore militate against her own happiness, it would be better for Marianne than an immediate return into Devonshire.
-- It so happened that while her two sisters with Mrs. Jennings were first calling on her in Harley Street, another of her acquaintance had dropt in a circumstance in itself not apparently likely to produce evil to her.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- No evil could come out of the contemplation of an expensively decorated chamber.
-- There was nothing evil in the fellow.
-- He might suffer the least rudimentary twinge of conscience in whatever he did, and in just so far he was evil and sinning.
-- "She asks only in return," said Carrie, scarcely hearing the small, scheduled reply of her lover, and putting herself even more in harmony with the plaintive melody now issuing from the orchestra, "that when you look upon her your eyes shall speak devotion; that when you address her your voice shall be gentle, loving, and kind; that you shall not despise her because she cannot understand all at once your vigorous thoughts and ambitious designs; for, when misfortune and evil have defeated your greatest purposes, her love remains to console you.
-- Our self-love dictates our appreciation of the good or evil in another.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then he solemnly pronounced the following words: "To my mind this Marionette is dead and gone; but if, by any evil chance, he were not, then that would be a sure sign that he is still alive!"
-- To my mind this Marionette is alive; but if, by any evil chance, he were not, then that would be a sure sign that he is wholly dead!"
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