jot是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 匆匆记下,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I think now that he was the silliest creature I ever met; he had developed in the most wonderful way the distinctive silliness of man without los-ing one jot of the natural folly of a monkey.
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:
-- 'Look at me...I don't do any high and pure mental work, nothing but jot down a few ideas.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But, as in his narrow-flowing monomania, not one jot of Ahab's broad madness had been left behind; so in that broad madness, not one jot of his great natural intellect had perished.
-- Though, in overseeing the pursuit of this whale, Captain Ahab had evinced his customary activity, to call it so; yet now that the creature was dead, some vague dissatisfaction, or impatience, or despair, seemed working in him; as if the sight of that dead body reminded him that Moby Dick was yet to be slain; and though a thousand other whales were brought to his ship, all that would not one jot advance his grand, monomaniac object.
-- Then gazing at his quadrant, and handling, one after the other, its numerous cabalistical contrivances, he pondered again, and muttered: "Foolish toy!babies' plaything of haughty Admirals, and Commodores, and Captains; the world brags of thee, of thy cunning and might; but what after all canst thou do, but tell the poor, pitiful point, where thou thyself happenest to be on this wide planet, and the hand that holds thee: no!not one jot more!Thou canst not tell where one drop of water or one grain of sand will be to-morrow noon; and yet with thy impotence thou insultest the sun!Science!Curse thee, thou vain toy; and cursed be all the things that cast man's eyes aloft to that heaven, whose live vividness but scorches him, as these old eyes are even now scorched with thy light, O sun!Level by nature to this earth's horizon are the glances of man's eyes; not shot from the crown of his head, as if God had meant him to gaze on his firmament.
-- "Aye!and all splintered to pieces, Stubb! d'ye see it. But even with a broken bone, old Ahab is untouched; and I account no living bone of mine one jot more me, than this dead one that's lost.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'If they had uncles enough to fill ALL Cheapside,' cried Bingley, 'it would not make them one jot less agreeable.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After this, I spent a great deal of time and pains to make an umbrella; I was, indeed, in great want of one, and had a great mind to make one; I had seen them made in the Bra-zils, where they are very useful in the great heats there, and I felt the heats every jot as great here, and greater too, be-ing nearer the equinox; besides, as I was obliged to be much abroad, it was a most useful thing to me, as well for the rains as the heats.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Among these were many well-known rascals, who cared not a jot for study or for success.
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