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:
-- 'Why,' repeated the scout, looking about him proudly; 'because it is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!What answer could we give Munro, when he asked us where and how we left his children?'
-- Still ignorant of the fate of those who had trusted to the aid of the swift current, he at first listened intently to any signal or sounds of alarm, which might announce the good or evil fortune of their hazardous undertaking.
-- repeated the Indian, casting an oblique glance of the most ferocious expression at her unyielding coun-tenance; 'is it justice to make evil and then punish for it?
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His only resource on such occasions, either to drown thought or drive away evil spirits, was to sing psalm tunes and the good people of Sleepy Hollow, as they sat by their doors of an evening, were often filled with awe at hearing his nasal melody, 'in linked sweetness long drawn out,' floating from the distant hill, or along the dusky road.
-- In his hand he swayed a ferule, that sceptre of despotic power; the birch of justice reposed on three nails behind the throne, a constant terror to evil doers, while on the desk before him might be seen sundry contraband ar-ticles and prohibited weapons, detected upon the persons of idle urchins, such as half-munched apples, popguns, whirl-igigs, fly-cages, and whole legions of rampant little paper game-cocks.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He recognises in himself an artistic satisfaction in the contemplation of evil which a little startles him; but sincerity forces him to confess that the disapproval he feels for certain actions is not nearly so strong as his curiosity in their reasons.
-- All that was healthy and natural, all that clung to happy relationships and the simple joys of simple men, shrunk from them in dismay; and yet a fearful attraction was in them, and, like the fruit on the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil they were terrible with the possibilities of the Unknown.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yet I lingered about, and could not tear myself away, thinking of all possible harm that might happen to the child of fires and robberies and even murder and feeling as if some evil must ensue if I turned my back upon the place.
-- Not to be behind-hand in the bustle, Mr Quilp went to work with surprising vigour; hustling and driving the people about, like an evil spirit; setting Mrs Quilp upon all kinds of arduous and impracticable tasks; carrying great weights up and down, with no apparent effort; kicking the boy from the wharf, whenever he could get near him; and inflicting, with his loads, a great many sly bumps and blows on the shoulders of Mr Brass, as he stood upon the door-steps to answer all the inquiries of curious neighbours, which was his department.
-- If you're any spirit at all, sir, you're an evil spirit.
-- Separation from her grandfather was the greatest evil she could dread; and feeling for the time as though, go where they would, they were to be hunted down, and could never be safe but in hiding, her heart failed her, and her courage drooped.
-- The poor schoolmaster appeared to be gratified by her earnest manner, but yet rendered more uneasy by it, for he added hastily that anxious people often magnified an evil and thought it greater than it was; 'for my part,' he said, in his quiet, patient way, 'I hope it's not so.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Some shook their heads and thought: "There is the result of evil conduct--how unlike ours!"
-- Nekhludoff's soul was stirred by evil thoughts.
-- "She cannot be left to her fate," said Nekhludoff to himself, entirely forgetting his evil thoughts, and, without knowing why, he ran into the corridor to look at her again.
-- Having come to the conclusion that all evil can be traced to the people's ignorance, he joined the Democrats, on leaving the university, and obtaining the position of village teacher, he boldly preached before his pupils and the peasants that which he considered to be just, and denounced that which he considered unjust and false.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Where population is balanced and abundant, much childbearing becomes an evil rather than a blessing to the State; where violence comes but rarely and offspring are secure, there is less necessity indeed there is no necessity for an efficient family, and the specialisation of the sexes with reference to their children's needs disappears.
-- Its evil eyes were wriggling on their stalks, its mouth was all alive with appetite, and its vast ungainly claws, smeared with an algal slime, were descending upon me.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The captain spun round on his heel and fronted us; all the brown had gone out of his face, and even his nose was blue; he had the look of a man who sees a ghost, or the evil one, or something worse, if anything can be; and upon my word, I felt sorry to see him all in a moment turn so old and sick.
-- Not only that, but it flashed into my mind at the same moment that the round-shot and the powder for the gun had been left behind, and a stroke with an axe would put it all into the possession of the evil ones abroad.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Enormous vegetations are multiplied under the torrid seas, and the evil is irresistibly developed from the mouth of the Rio de la Plata to Florida.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The girl, with a curious, almost evil motion, looked round over her shoulder without moving her body.
-- She was aware of him sitting silently there, an unthinkable evil obstruction.
-- She was terribly susceptible to these evil prognostications, but he only shook his head.
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