sick是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 有病的, 患病的; 恶心的, 想吐的,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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Don't use such dreadful expressions,' replied Meg from the depths of the veil in which she had shrouded herself like a nun sick of the world.
-- I had four, but two were killed, one is a prisoner, and I'm going to the other, who is very sick in a Washington hospital.'
-- 'There he is,' thought Jo, 'Poor boy!All alone and sick this dismal day.
-- Laurie was sick and lonely, and feeling how rich she was in home and happiness, she gladly tried to share it with him.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He's sick they say, but is getting better, and will be all right again before long."
-- "'Down into the forecastle then, down with ye, I'll keep ye there till ye're sick of it.
-- Who would think, then, that such fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale!Yet so it is.
-- But he who dodges hospitals and jails, and walks fast crossing graveyards, and would rather talk of operas than hell; calls Cowper, Young, Pascal, Rousseau, poor devils all of sick men; and throughout a care-free lifetime swears by Rabelais as passing wise, and therefore jolly; not that man is fitted to sit down on tomb-stones, and break the green damp mould with unfathomably wondrous Solomon.
-- Pip was led away, and the sick man was replaced in his hammock.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'The die is the same as the porochial seal--the Good Samaritan healing the sick and bruised man.
-- But he was sick and weary; and he soon fell sound asleep.
-- 'We put the sick paupers into open carts in the rainy weather, to prevent their taking cold.'
-- thought Oliver, turning sick with fear.
-- Betwixt you and me, ma'am,' returned Mr. Bumble, 'that's the great principle; and that's the reason why, if you look at any cases that get into them owdacious newspapers, you'll always observe that sick families have been relieved with slices of cheese.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I am sick of Mr. Bingley,' cried his wife.
-- They solaced their wretchedness, however, by duets after supper, while he could find no better relief to his feelings than by giving his housekeeper directions that ev-ery attention might be paid to the sick lady and her sister.
-- I am sick of them all.
-- Elizabeth re-ceived her congratulations amongst the rest, and then, sick of this folly, took refuge in her own room, that she might think with freedom.
-- The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of def-erence, of officious attention.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The ship was no sooner out of the Humber than the wind began to blow and the sea to rise in a most frightful manner; and, as I had never been at sea before, I was most inexpressibly sick in body and terrified in mind.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My mother was quite sick of it.
-- But I must object to your dooming Colonel Brandon and his wife to the constant confinement of a sick chamber, merely because he chanced to complain yesterday (a very cold damp day) of a slight rheumatic feel in one of his shoulders."
-- Mrs. Jennings therefore attending her up stairs into the sick chamber, to satisfy herself that all continued right, left her there again to her charge and her thoughts, and retired to her own room to write letters and sleep.
-- At his and Mrs. Jennings's united request in return, Mrs. Dashwood was prevailed on to accept the use of his carriage on her journey back, for the better accommodation of her sick child; and the Colonel, at the joint invitation of Mrs. Dashwood and Mrs. Jennings, whose active good-nature made her friendly and hospitable for other people as well as herself, engaged with pleasure to redeem it by a visit at the cottage, in the course of a few weeks.
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